I’ve struggled to find anything that it took to make this post today. I started days ago and could not, in all honesty, even begin to find ways to navigate this landscape of horror, terror, grief and loss that is what we are witnessing.I’ve fallen, like many I imagine, into a deep hole and I don’t quite know how anyone can be expected to turn up in any area of their lives as they were doing before. I’m scared. Heartbreak has taken up residence in ways I’ve not experienced before. I’ve been on the verge of crying non stop and I am not even directly affected. I know no one who has been murdered, has lost loved ones or has been traumatised for life. Knowing the depth of this grief without being involved has left me trying to imagine how the people of Gaza and Israel are feeling.
The children.
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