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Woke up late after not sleeping well and kicked E off the computer to check my email. Yawn. Sip coffee, answer one from WG. Check f-list. Get puzzled. Get worried. Flick to Netscape start up page.
Oh God.
Glad everyone's all right that I know, f-list and my relatives there alike (one of whom, my young cousin, has just got back from Iraq; the company he works for brings water supplies to remote areas; he's been living in a bomb-proof apartment over there for months). It's a selfish reaction maybe, wanting the dead and hurt to be strangers, but on one level, the no man is an island one, they're not, not really.
The people who did this, who chose deliberately, pointlessly to kill; they're the strangers. The ones who died are kin.
I'm left reeling at the abruptness of the change in mood. A few days ago people were eating strawberries and watching Wimbledon, dancing at the Live 8 concerts, feeling a glow. Yesterday my country was celebrating the Olympic bid and it was all happiness, and to do this, to time this the way they have, with the summit that's supposed to be about helping to make things better is an additional sneer that's just making me feel so unbearably outraged and angry.
Oh God.
Glad everyone's all right that I know, f-list and my relatives there alike (one of whom, my young cousin, has just got back from Iraq; the company he works for brings water supplies to remote areas; he's been living in a bomb-proof apartment over there for months). It's a selfish reaction maybe, wanting the dead and hurt to be strangers, but on one level, the no man is an island one, they're not, not really.
The people who did this, who chose deliberately, pointlessly to kill; they're the strangers. The ones who died are kin.
I'm left reeling at the abruptness of the change in mood. A few days ago people were eating strawberries and watching Wimbledon, dancing at the Live 8 concerts, feeling a glow. Yesterday my country was celebrating the Olympic bid and it was all happiness, and to do this, to time this the way they have, with the summit that's supposed to be about helping to make things better is an additional sneer that's just making me feel so unbearably outraged and angry.