Open your eyes, and see what you can with them before they close forever...

Anthony Doerr

All The Light We Cannot See

This is the book I'm reading just now, I'm not one to read a book on war.. but of course the title caught my eye and I am glad it did.. 

We need to remember things we didn't live through, if you see what I mean.. 

Houses bombed and people stealing openly.. precious metals, ornaments, artworks.. more.. everything and anything carryable without impunity..

But not just in war.. I remember so well so many memories of the lady in Wales.. 

Her house went up in flames when she was away, worried sick about her parents and aunts.. getting back home and approaching up the driveway... Coming down towards her.. villagers with her families belongings! Her things.. incredible! People who knew them, who appeared as friends.. wransacking their home. Were they jealous? Bitter? Happy for the disaster? A total disregard of someone else's feelings.. To take from people who have lost the roof from their heads.. is a final knife in their hearts.. Losing something more important almost than the roof. Because trust and friendships, what they thought of people who appeared to be, if not friends but at the least good people who they had supported over decades .. 

Maybe the 'people' hadn't felt the same way, I understand that, very different levels of society.. 

But, still.. such a total indifference to people's feelings.

Photograph above just now... What a beautiful evening..

Feria starts this evening.. the celebrations moved up from the lower road about 7:30 and still at 8.. 

Seen it about ten times I guess over the years,.had memories up on my Facebook, sat on the corner awaiting the giants!

Will end with another quote from the aforementioned book..

The shell may be broken and even portions of it removed and yet after a certain lapse of time the injured parts will be repaired by a deposition of shelly matter at the fractured parts..

This quote about snails at sea, maybe land also... but also, in a way can be seen from the viewpoint of us, of our own fragility, and regrowth...

M.