more in the human

" Will the world ever learn? ...

The time must come. It's enough -- enough to go to cemeteries, enough to weep for oceans. It's enough. There must come a moment -- a moment of bringing people together.

And therefore we say anyone who comes here should go back with that resolution. Memory must bring people together rather than set them apart. Memories here not to sow anger in our hearts, but on the contrary, a sense of solidarity that all those who need us. What else can we do except invoke that memory so that people everywhere who say the 21st century is a century of new beginnings, filled with promise and infinite hope, and at times profound gratitude to all those who believe in our task, which is to improve the human condition.

A great man, Camus, wrote at the end of his marvelous novel, The Plague:

"After all," he said, "after the tragedy, never the rest...there is more in the human being to celebrate than to denigrate."

Even that can be found as truth -- painful as it is -- in Buchenwald. "

- elie wiesel; buchenwald; june 5, 2009

music: Henyrk Górecki - Symphony No. 3, Op. 36

whistle and blow

there's a ragged bundled draft of thoughts sitting waiting for me to tidy them up but they'll have to wait for daylight and the company of coffee...

in the meantime, flannery o'connor article here that's worth a looksee...

LB

so a rabbi walks into a bar...

i was going to write something contemplative and thoughtful and then i came across the site, old jews telling jokes which was featured on the daily dish and, well, more serious thoughts can wait for another day.

there's some lovely little back stories to go with some well humoured characters...






if you like your jokes a little more 'adult', (or should that be mature?) make sure to check out mr neil lawner's offerings once the too-young or old-enough-but-easily-offended are out of earshot.

it's good to laugh.

LB

not that i'm complaining, mind you...

but still, it's the principle of the thing.

all right, who did it? 'fess up.

someone clearly picked this island up, and when they were done with whatever they were doing with it during the night, didn't put it back where it belongs. in fact we appear to be significantly closer to the equator than the position of the sun suggests. i'm even thinking Galileo Galilei might have been wrong with his whole heliocentrism lark.

i know somebody must have moved us. because it's 7pm. and 74 degrees. we're meant to go on holiday for this sort of thing.

or maybe Al Gore is onto something...

in other news, my first nasturtium seed has sprouted. may all her brothers and sisters follow suit. ickle. but exciting.

LB