Last week, Stephen Hawkins and Toys Are Us died, hundreds of United States high school kids walked out to protest gun violence, and a few of the neighborhood crocus started blooming.
Meanwhile, war in Syria has been going on for the last seven years leaving an estimated 400,000 Syrians killed and 11 million displaced.
And the war in Afghanistan, which has been going on for 17 years, has left 1.5 million Afghans dead; 4,500 U.S. dead; and 100,000 U.S. wounded.
Right now, 65.6 million people around the world have been forced from home. Among them are nearly 22.5 million refugees, over half of whom are under the age of 18. There are also 10 million stateless people who have been denied a nationality and access to basic rights such as education, healthcare, employment and freedom of movement.
Nearly 20 people are forcibly displaced every minute as a result of conflict or persecution.
In the United States, homelessness is endemic.
And yet, and yet.
Last week, hundreds of United States high school kids walked out to protest gun violence, and a few of the neighborhood crocus started blooming.
And so we carry on.
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Hi Mim. I really liked your article in North Forty News about MLK. It was very perceptive about how society has tried to defang his message.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm. This was definitely one of your profound moments that you speak of! I can't get enough of your writings, Mim, thank you for this one in particular.
ReplyDeleteHi Mim, thank you. Your facts are overwhelming and thinking about them, we must do something to change human beings so that we can survive, learn, find peace.
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