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| Bachalpsee Lake in Switzerland. |
Something calm, something serene, something without any humans in. The mountain embracing the lake, a female/male moment in nature. Each morning as I switch on my computer there is more often than not a beautiful photo to contemplate, this one reminds me of the Tibetan myth, the mountain is the male and the water the female. I also came across the following....
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice" Martin Luther King Junior. I always find the use of the term 'junior' weird, I understand the ancestral heritage bit, but to have the term junior tagged onto you through life seems illogical.
Getting back to the expression of a belief that good finally triumphs because justice will win, well that is somehow harder to figure. I have watched several small videos of people being swept up in the Trump's racket of getting rid of 'illegal immigrants'. Innocent people who are arrested and thrown into terrible jail conditions. True some of them are white, middle class people who can produce a lawyer to argue their case but such people talk of the others they meet in jail, who have been swept off the streets by ICE thugs.
America the moral path is there for the taking.... and yes I do see good honest people fighting back and then I turn to the world only to see our leaders slobbering over this vile man - where are the strong backbones?
Then this I heard in the Observer, not a magazine I would count as being lurid in its writings. The 'Salt Path' is founded on untruths, it wasn't the supposedly truthful tale that Raynor Winn wrote about. Well they have made a packet out of her books and the film that has just come out. What will happen now I wonder? A real life story turned to fiction and based on lies.
The well of St.Keynes in Cornwall
Watched the Observer piece - Well, well, well - is anything true anywhere anymore? Now I'm annoyed that I went to see the film!
ReplyDeleteIt made a good story Sue, though one does question the authenticity of the walk. And at one stage I did wonder about Moth's terminal illness but that perhaps was wrong. They made up a story, I think without any plans to exploit it, but they were weak and took advantage of their plight.
DeleteThat photo of Bachalpsee sounds breathtaking nature’s quiet power is so healing. I share your frustration about justice feeling distant. It’s hard watching truth get twisted, both in politics and stories we once believed. Thought-provoking post, thank you.
ReplyDeleteExcuse me. I notice Ukraine's flag on the top rigjt corner of your blog. Are you from Ukraine? I am from Indonesia. Nice to meet you
Nice to meet you to to Aesop but no I'm British. If you click on the Ukraine flag you will be taken to an Ukrainian video of a choir of children from Ukraine. I kept two flags there at one time but decided Canada can look after herself. There should be a third there for Gaza but it provokes such clashes of hate.
DeleteMy Dad was a "Junior" and my brother was "the third" but they dropped those in their legal names as each generation before them died.
ReplyDeleteI remember other "real" stories being proven as fiction once the books were out and films were made. Now with misinformation on the Internet we may never be able to figure out what is true anymore!?!
Raynor Winn never gave an explanation as to what happened in the court case and so went on to construct a false story I suppose. Most films Ellen are just stories anyway. Dropping one's legal name by the way doesn't that cause confusion over signed documents?
DeleteThe Salt Path seems to be a popular book there...I found it frustrating to read. It seems that they planned and prepared so poorly, and then once things began to go awry, instead of stopping to make things right and then continuing on...they just continued on. It worked out well in the end, I guess, but reading it was not the triumphant journey I expected...it was more that it had a good ending despite them.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I read the book, if I did it made no impression. There were a couple of more articles about the revelation, the film producers said they knew nothing either of her previous life. The couple walked away from a life where they owed people money, that does make them bad people.
Deletei feel for the people of america that have to put up with donald trump's hairbrained schemes
ReplyDeleteHe is of course slowly destroying the country, to what end I don't know. Perhaps it is his crypto fancies.
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