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The News Today...Oh Boy.
It's odd how we learn about things. I rarely watch the news...for it seems to be rarely entertaining or joyful. 24/7 news channels and mainly hyperbole, hate, and gossip. The new is more violent than the scripted television shows that bracket it.
Today, there was a shooting in NYC -- some terrorist action somewhere in Manhattan, I don't know what it was, I flipped off the news before it went much further. It seems every day, there's more of it.
I saw on facebook, an interesting post that said this:
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And here's what happened, last night, around the world...when Paris turned off its lights in morning.
It made me cry tears of joy, hope, and love.
When Paris Turned of the Lights of the Eiffle Tower in Mourning, the World turned on its lights in Support
And then, on my live journal,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
frenchani and elsie posted a link to this - a man used his bike to pull his piano up to the location of the shootings to play the song Imagine, which is a beautiful thing to do:
So, I think, we, all of us, have a choice. We can focus on the crazy people who did this. On the justifications they gave, justifications that continue to bolster hatred and prejudice towards the Islamic religion and Muslim community, or we can focus on the helpers. The fact that world stood up after the attacks and asked, how can we help? We love you. We have your back. It's the same choice we faced after 9/11, after the 9 people were gunned down in a church in South Carolina, after the various school shootings, after Beriut, after Syria, after Iraq, after Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Croatia, WWII and after WWI, and after oh so many wars..and so many horrors and so much death. Do we lash out with hate? Or with love? Do we cower in terror? Or stand up in joy?
Here's a link on what you can do to help:
What you can do to help
On Twitter and Facebook and various social media sites - Follow or participate with the hashtag #PorteOuverte: The phrase means "open door" and has been used by Parisians offering their homes as shelter for anyone who needs them. People in other nations have also used it to offer a place to stay for French citizens who are stranded by plane delays or by the country closing its borders in the wake of the attacks.
Now, this is the world I want to live in. And the world I'm going to fight to preserve. Although I don't really have any space to put anyone up unfortunately. But if someone doesn't mind a futon couch that is rock hard - and is stranded in NYC, let me know.
It's odd how we learn about things. I rarely watch the news...for it seems to be rarely entertaining or joyful. 24/7 news channels and mainly hyperbole, hate, and gossip. The new is more violent than the scripted television shows that bracket it.
Today, there was a shooting in NYC -- some terrorist action somewhere in Manhattan, I don't know what it was, I flipped off the news before it went much further. It seems every day, there's more of it.
I saw on facebook, an interesting post that said this:
( Read more... )
And here's what happened, last night, around the world...when Paris turned off its lights in morning.
It made me cry tears of joy, hope, and love.
When Paris Turned of the Lights of the Eiffle Tower in Mourning, the World turned on its lights in Support
And then, on my live journal,
frenchani and elsie posted a link to this - a man used his bike to pull his piano up to the location of the shootings to play the song Imagine, which is a beautiful thing to do:So, I think, we, all of us, have a choice. We can focus on the crazy people who did this. On the justifications they gave, justifications that continue to bolster hatred and prejudice towards the Islamic religion and Muslim community, or we can focus on the helpers. The fact that world stood up after the attacks and asked, how can we help? We love you. We have your back. It's the same choice we faced after 9/11, after the 9 people were gunned down in a church in South Carolina, after the various school shootings, after Beriut, after Syria, after Iraq, after Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Croatia, WWII and after WWI, and after oh so many wars..and so many horrors and so much death. Do we lash out with hate? Or with love? Do we cower in terror? Or stand up in joy?
Here's a link on what you can do to help:
What you can do to help
On Twitter and Facebook and various social media sites - Follow or participate with the hashtag #PorteOuverte: The phrase means "open door" and has been used by Parisians offering their homes as shelter for anyone who needs them. People in other nations have also used it to offer a place to stay for French citizens who are stranded by plane delays or by the country closing its borders in the wake of the attacks.
Now, this is the world I want to live in. And the world I'm going to fight to preserve. Although I don't really have any space to put anyone up unfortunately. But if someone doesn't mind a futon couch that is rock hard - and is stranded in NYC, let me know.
