Lent 23
I have, inevitably, thought about not posting this morning ,being along with my fellow Brits and many others taken up in the shock and emotion of yesterdays attack in London but I did not think it for very long. Westminster Bridge is of course a place of great symbolic significance and striking at the heart of a great city, whether New York,Brussels, Paris or Berlin or anywhere is done because the psychological impact is great and memories persist- say those names to me and I can picture all of them as many of us can having been tourists ourselves.They all represent people too -New York means seeing the sunshine on a Brooklyn afternoon out of her apartment window while skyping with eglantine_br,Berlin means eating lunch in a Cafe in Unter den Linden with esteven and Paris eating ice cream on a ridiculously warm September day under the Eiffel Tower with amaraal.
That is just the point of course - that terror strikes in one place and may kill and injure those immediately in the area but if it strikes our imaginations too it increases the effect multtiple times
so its not my original story for today but here is good news of a profound sort in its own way -this thoughtful piece by a reporter who was present in Westminster
That is just the point of course - that terror strikes in one place and may kill and injure those immediately in the area but if it strikes our imaginations too it increases the effect multtiple times
so its not my original story for today but here is good news of a profound sort in its own way -this thoughtful piece by a reporter who was present in Westminster