Wish, a challenge from Jen. I have just watched the TV news – I often wish I never had. 20 years ago we stopped buying and reading evening papers, and I still avoid much of the catastrophy-, war- and news media. Not my body nor my soul was made for it. I believe nobody’s body or soul is. Still, once a day I listen to the radio news, that way I avoid the pictures.
Tonight, this thin, starving man, came running towards me with his little daughter in his arms. Running through the ruined city of Mosul, tears streaming down his cheeks, his daughter in his arms, lifeless. His open face in the camera. Next, a woman in the camera…crying. Next, her four children in hospital beds, badly wounded from bomb shells and poison gas.
I try to surround myself with beauty. I cannot exist without it. I wish some of this beauty also might bring something good to other people than me…to my family, to my friends…pieces of harmony in a disastrous world. Good things start with yourself…You have to be the change you want to see in the world. Gandhi talked about that. And, I believe that is the way. If we all try, in our own little ways…the waves will grow and reach distant shores. Let Love and Harmony win.
Leya 
Well said, Ann Christine. We share your wish. ❤
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Beautiful wish, Ann-Christine.
Mmm, thank you.
Lovely thought. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if love conquered all.
Yes…wouldn’t it. Maybe if we believe we can…it can…we could come at least a bit closer…
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I understand your feelings. Thanks for the bit of beauty to act as balance/antidote.
janet
Balance, yes, I guess it is that we have to
Yes, balance…we have to have.
Well spoken, and I love your flowers, too.
Thank you!
Dear Leya! You’re right! Golden words! Life is beauty & we should spread it around! There is too much waste sufferings, violence, etc. in the world but it will be less if we place beauty, calmness, light of Spirit on the first place.
True! Keep going!
I join your prayers for Love and Harmony….
Much needed – and I enjoy your beauties. They light up my days ♥
Beautifully said Leya and the light will spread 💖
I just watched the White Helmets documentary and the image of the days old baby being dug out of the rubble sticks with me. The baby survived and later the rescuers met him again. Without hope there is no life.
Thank you for commenting – true – without hope there is no life.
A poet once said, In ugly times, the true protest is beauty. I believe that, too.
I have never heard that…but thank you for giving me those words. They will not be forgotten.
That’s wonderful, thank you.
Well said, Leya. Let’s create our own butterfly effect of goodness… it’s time for change! 😀
It is! Thank you – and may we succeed in big or small!
I have a strong feeling we will!