Two thoughts spring to mind this morning. The first is the history of those two fish items that Leni Heaton gave me. She died in Switzerland a few years back at over a hundred years of age. She lived in a sweet little chalet at the end of an unmade road but at the top the little train that went up the Les Pleiade mountain would trundle past as you sat on the seat at the little stop. Blonay's large old chalet was also there. Leni will sink away from memories and yet she must had so many. She was Jewish and German for a start and I once came across a paper on the internet of her family, I think the silver slices come from Iran but maybe they came from the time she had too flee the war and were part of her family treasures. I know she was a dancer, and a modern one at that, her name seems to come up in the Laban School of Dancing. There is a dramatic moment in her life in Iran. Which was when her husband tried to kill her by taking her out into the desert and leaving her there.
1) the story of being left in the desert to die. Apparently her husband had a brain tumour which made him act strangely and he died soon after.
2) Leni was a translator in the 1940s and working in Iran at the time of The Tehran Conference in 1941
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The Blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul
What is the second thought, it is to do with music and the apocalypse and probably was sparked by this blog written in 2007. Firstly the music, Leonard Cohen's 'The Future' you can listen here......
Bleak and miserable the song goes on, just like Bob Dylan's
it's a 'Hard Rain A-gonna Fall'.
Doom and gloom, apocalyptic. Are they the interpreters of our society in song and of course poetry, or do they bring feelings of despair so that in the end we do not have the will to fight.
Well plucky, and I have to say it, little Zelensky, with his bold band of EU supporters behind him standing up to the forces of Trump and Putin tells a different tale, as does Rebecca Solnit in her book of 'Hope in the Dark' - The Untold History of People Power'. And are we not seeing people power expressed all over the world, whether in Israel calling out Netanyahu and his wicked starvation of the people of Palestine, or in America, and the rest of the world, calling out the fascist right appearing on the stage of their USA government.
So let us take this ying and yang, the duality of everything, and watch as it passes by. Painful it maybe but doesn't history always change? Maybe not in our lifetimes but it does eventually.
Succinctly put. It does appear that Zelensky, Euro leaders and Starma are standing up to both Putin and #47. Will that work? I think the world is in favour of the former, not the latter pair.
ReplyDeleteZelensky is the brave hero fighting the wicked tyrant but in all this lives are getting lost. It just seems to me that the EU leaders and Starmer are weak in their defense of him but I suppose it all straddles that pinhead of a third world war. Not something to diss Andrew.
DeleteYou are right about change, Thelma. I was glad to see the European leaders here to support Zelensky.
ReplyDeleteI still have hope.
We were all jogging along so peacefully then these countries were thrown by Trump and his refusal to protect them anymore. Apparently there is not much in their defense cupboards. I think it will change for the better Ellen.
Deleteyou called it perfectly.... yin and yang..... you can't have light without the darkness.... and both those songs you highlight serve to hold up a mirror to the darkness...... the only constant in the universe is change, apparently!
ReplyDeleteChange or Chaos A/F. At the moment it is deliberate chaos to scare us, standing firm is all we can do and hold the moral ground. On the weekend protest, there was this protestor with the words 'Plasticine Action' instead of 'Palestine Action'. He still got arrested until another policeman saw the writing. But it just shows the Terrorist Bill up as a shoddy piece of legislation, not defining what a terrorist is!
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