Maybe Irene is conducting a social experiment and we're the guinea
pigs. She's seeing who she can push over a cliff first.
Irene, Paul is presenting the other side of what Eric wrote. There's
beauty everywhere, even in the smallest things. Even those wretched
people in Baghdad still notice scents and sights that light their
world. They're not hiding from reality when they love each other and
dandle their kids on their knees or smile at the way the sheets on the
line dance to the wind. They're preserving life.
The ancient Sumerians, bemoaning the destruction of their cities, summed
up the devastation by noting how the old men's eyes no longer followed
the young girls on the street. That's the end of life. Until we're
there, smile a little.
Doesn't anything shiver your timbers?
Ursula
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