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Time is ALWAYS running out...........
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Genial.
Me he dado un paseo por tu blog. Como siempre, una delicia:), cada vez mejor, más intenso, más del mundo.
Un abrazo
uff.. que terrible.. crecer creyendo que el estado natural de vida es la muerte y el miedo...
Stewart
Your picture brought a smile to my face..Sometimes I do wonder if Im the mad one, but here goes....My son all of 19 by a few days and just finished training with the Marines completed his first tour of duty in Iraq, he came home in September..with his story in his heart packed in his kit bag...What I found so touching were the everyday scenes he talked about...the people,the children..the football etc.etc..dont think he had a little nipper pee on his hard hat.. but hey..I naturally thought of him, feared for his safety, yet every time I ended up thinking of the other mother in Iraq just like me who has to accept the conflict, yet neither wants it nor needs it...Im just a mother, with a heart that feels heavy at times for my son,for the other young soldier in Iraq,for the other mother on the other side...And the children Bless them perhaps they have much to teach us..Wonderful picture...speaks of innocence pure and true..how even in the face of adversity it still shows its face and lives on.....Dont know where this was taken...sometimes we need the mystery perhaps.
Thank you and keep well
Audrey
hahaha .. what he deserves !
Hi Mile Stone,
I just was following up on comments on my blog and saw your note. Thanks so much for posting on my blog. You were in solidarity with me in my elation over the election results here in the U.S. Believe me, I am hoping this can continue and we can change the course of this country's policies, especially in Iraq.
I just looked at your beautiful slideshow on Sintra. Fantastic.
Had to come back as I find this picture so captivating......The child reminds me of one of those cherubs you find on great fountains of old....in his hand the milk of human kindness and water pouring from a font of wisdom
Peace and love
Audrey
Audrey has wonderfully helped me resolve a problem that came up after this was published. It was done quickly, it was a picture that has been in my archive for more than 2 years, and I have no other that says anything about war.
When I saw Nabeel's comment, it made me wonder - was it right to use it. But if Audrey, who is closer to the Iraq situation than most of us, can react to it so positively, then I am satisfied.
Also, to be fair, I know that Nabeel did not see what Audrey had written, as the comments were waiting together when I came home.
But I still have a question: Who deserves what? And why?
Voy a añadir que me niego entrar en conflito aqui con qualquer visitante, solamente quiero constatar que no creyo este ni un tema, ni una imagen para hacer rir. Sobre todo cuando una madre passa por aqui, revelando su miedo así como su coraje, teniendo un hijo soldado britanico en Iraq. Y que ademas, consegue ver un lado tan positivo en la foto. Mar, como siempre, tienes razón! Me estoy poniendo cada vez mas en la linea de frente! Y tu sabes lo que vai seguir, la substancia, sino la forma...
Audrey, all that you see, and what you reveal, is touching beoynd my words, but worthy of total respect and admiration. And gratitude.
Mauigirl52, I hope you are back here soon. It occurred to me that Sintra is a whole lot nearer to NJ than Maui is!! LOL!
I wish you all the very best.
beautiful little one...
beautiful picture
and I just heard Pinochet is dead...may peace and freedom progress
Mousie
mind you I don't uselually rejoice when somebody dies, but that man has done such terrible things...
Hi, Mousie & thanks. I too happened to hear that news break on Sky News about 75 minutes ago. And I thought about this post as I watched the obituaries start.
But more, I thought of the Chilean exiles I used to work with and knew well in London in the 80s & 90s.
When you work closely with refugees, political exiles, (and I worked with many hundreds, if not more for 12 years from most warzones & dictatorships (Chile, Argentina, Central America, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Africa, Turkey, Bosnia, Rwanda, Algeria etc.etc. etc.), you instinctively have to know never to ask anything of their experiences. If they trust you, if they need to, the stories will emerge- Torture, rape, massacre, death squads.
Just one example is enough: Luís. A Chilean journalist exiled from 1974 with his sister. My good friends. It took years, and then only because of a Channel 4 doc on the subject which also featured another 2 poor souls that I had worked with personally, to learn Luis' truth. I never even guessed.
Dear Mr Pinochet - as Sting ironically addressed him in his anthemic "They Dance Alone" - had ensured that his henchmen had tortured Luis brutally, then tortured him for the rest of his life by freeing him. Luis' wife and 2 children were murdered by the same henchmen.
There is nothing at all to celebrate in Pinochet escaping justice by his death.
Elle est drôle et triste en même temps cette photo Un enfant presque nu face à ce soldat arnaché Et puis si je regarde bien ,je vois que cet enfant a un petit"doudou" sur l'épaule, une dérisoire protection
Les photos de détresse d'enfant sont les photos de guerre qui me touchent le plus
Je me souviens du regard désespéré d'un petit tchétchène dont l'oncle venait d'être tué
On a déjà du mal, nous, mais comment les enfants innocents peuvent-ils endurer ça ? Alors qu'ils devraient être protégés de toute inquiétude et seulement penser à grandir dans la sérénité et l'amour
Thank you for your comments stewart..this picture is soo thought provoking in so many ways...I approach and bring a mothers eyes and mind perhaps,big role in my life,so the childs innocence really stands out for me and overshadows everything else....I see both characters as someones child...Yet Im aware it raises a deeper archetypal symbolism if you like...that of good vs bad...villian and hero..a hero status can be projected onto the child..yet he has no awareness of the implications of his natural urge...Even the positioning of the characters speaks the child above the soldier below,almost seen to be hiding...The importance of words that tell whats truly happening here hits home...also the importance of good,fair and accurate reporting when it comes to powerful images...get so angry sometimes with the tabloid press and the abuse of language to over sensationalize at times....
Deep respect for what you write about your work with refugees fleeing torture,rape,death squads etc as I say its the childs innocence that makes this picture what it is for me, and I have to say that I fully understand what you write about stories and trust etc...I relate a positive picture because thats what my son chose to share,yet as his mother I am fully aware that there are things my son has not spoken of that he will in his own way and time have to process in his psyche....The ones you worked with and met need to be heard..to speak of the unspeakable..to be supported and held..Unimaginable I, dearest Stewart am no closer than the next man when it comes to having to bear that experience.....had this been another adult not a child in the picture the scene would have a very different impact on me...and my heart knows sadly this happens as a way of dehumanizing and degrading...I wonder if its possible to see beauty and innocence again when one has had to endure such torturous experiences....to find ones way back to that place
With much respect
Audrey
superbe photo
great picture - and many evocative comments because of it.
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