Someone's celebration is someone else's catastrophe

Palestinian school girls in Gaza. Image from Electronic Intifada, taken by Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.


"She said, go play outside, but don’t..."

He said more stupid things that made you despair of being Canadian.

While the Israeli nation celebrates its 60th "birthday", on May 15th Palestinians commemorate the Nakba ~ the catastrophe.

There are some stories about the lasting impact of the Nakba on children here.

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water,

and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

    ~     Wendell Berry