Lover of animals, the world and the mystic arts. Once I served BBC Foreign News, now I'm Ronin.
Joined March 2009
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"Our task is not to be popular or to be seen as having an impact, but to speak the deepest truths that we know. We need to live our lives in accord with the deepest truths we know, even if doing so does not produce immediate results in the world.” Daniel Berrigan, SJ
A beautiful piece from my former colleagues. And a painful reminder that children and other human beings are suffering today, and yet still holding on to beauty.
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Melanie Marshall retweeted
"Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that Autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The River in Autumn (1912)
🎨 Gustave Loiseau
Melanie Marshall retweeted
“Free Afghan women.”
Afghanistan’s first female Olympic breakdancer Manizha Talash competed at #Paris2024, the first Olympic Games where Breakdancing was included. Video via @Thibuch
teapawt.org/Thibuch/status/1821916…
Melanie Marshall retweeted
"Nobody tells you how hard it is to rewire your brain so you can allow amazing things to happen to you after so much trauma or hurt. Blessings exist, good people exist, a softer life exists. Let it happen.” ~Layla Laurent
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No president of America has ever given birth - I don’t understand why it’s suddenly an issue
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Weird age to be a childless woman … neither sexpot nor mommy nor crone but a secret fourth thing
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This is for everyone struggling with the next step.
ALT AFTER LOVE Now that you have lost the way you’d taken, walk out through the new moon in the spruces and lie down in the deep leaves of the clearing. Listen: they are still here, the wild things, migrations moving on again from winter. All your life you heard a word of the singing, all your life admitted just a bit of it; all your life you played your one small part. Wake now. Stay here in your waking and do it, finally do it: open to the whole of it, the whole of it, the wind that sings what’s been since the beginning. Listen. Listen. Listen. There is no one you’re betraying in your changes when you become the whole wild song of what you are. —Joseph Fasano
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Surreal; This awesome graduation dance video got these female students into trouble. They now face prosecution for the “crime” of dancing during their graduation ceremony at Al-Zahra University in Bushehr, Iran. The university president threatened legal action against all these students. The individual who filmed this beautiful ceremony has been identified and his friends are concerned not only about her current situation but also her future.
The Iranian regime is a gender apartheid regime, a reality reinforced time and again by the severe consequences faced by women for simple acts like dancing, highlighting the dire situation they endure under its rule.
We’ve witnessed this scenario play out before. Nobody should be condemned, punished, or deprived of education simply for the ‘crime’ of dancing and experiencing happiness. We deserve to have a normal life.
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ALT Ceasefire The brain of one human child will hold over 2.5 quadrillion bytes of information. 2.5 quadrillion memories that will never be again— (Sunday morning, father in the orange trees, the way the stars appeared to only her.) When you kill a child you kill all the stars in the world. —Joseph Fasano
Just read this. @Rushdibbc ‘s sparing eloquence on his family’s pain.
Rushdi Abu Alouf: My daughters beg for Gaza City return - but our old lives are over bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-…
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A quick word for and about the haters (or pessimists) on both sides. As I've said here a couple of times, I am an Israeli Jew who believes that revenge is not a strategy, and that the only way forward is to work for freedom and dignity for all people. But in saying this, there are two groups of people who I can't ignore. First, those who believe that the massacres on Saturday were somehow "justified" by Israel's actions, and second, those who say that "you can never make peace with those people."
So a word for and about both. First, nothing, absolutely nothing, can justify the deliberate murder of children, old people, and civilians in general. You can't blame a child, anywhere in the world, for where she was born, and targeting children is *always* wrong. Always. No exceptions.
As for those who say, "how can you make peace with people who want to kill you?" a couple of things. First, you make peace with your enemies. That's why it's called making peace. Second, I have zero patience for the Islamophobes who put this on all Muslims, Arabs, or Palestinians, most of whom would never harm a child. And lastly, if Hamas is not interested, then let's talk to *anyone* who is. And no, we have not done that over the years.
Again, neither the Jews nor the Palestinians are going anywhere. We have to live together. So let's find a way. Anything else will lead to total catastrophe.
George was always a delight to work with, in London and on the road. Kind, supportive and empathetic AND talented - a rare combo. My thoughts are with his family and friends. Rest in Peace.
George Alagiah, one of BBC's most respected journalists, who presented the News at Six and was award-winning foreign correspondent, dies aged 67 bbc.in/3Kc92Xx
Ahem…with the great restraint that comes with maturity, I shall abjure from @‘ing anyone. But this: “This is exactly my experience. I was too young and then overnight I was too old.”
"I was too young and then overnight I was too old.”
There is no mythical “prime” working age or “sweet spot” for professional women, a Harvard Business Review research telling us what we've always known
huffpost.com/entry/age-discr…
Prepare for your heart to melt!
Over 200 dogs surprised a lifelong dog lover for his 100th birthday. Dr. Robert Moore has always loved dogs. For his big milestone, his daughter Alison decided to post on Nextdoor asking people to bring their dogs in front of their house to wish Robert a happy birthday...
ALT outside, a man in a wheel chair happily pats a Rottweiler that's standing in front of him. they are surrounded by many people and dogs who have lined up to wish him happy birthday.