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And the bombing continues. Cease fire my ass. Daily. Children. lets just stick to that. Children. Starving. Maimed. We are talking a level of Trauma that I am not capable of comprehending.
When i was haning with the Amish, i came to the realization that i could never understand community on the level that they do. they live it. they feel it. I look at it from the outside. I empathise and imagine what it might be like, but I'll never know that level of belonging. They are born into it, live in it, and most of them never know anything else.
Similarly, I can never know the Trauma that the children in Gaza have been living in for what? two years? how many? It reminds me of when i was a kid and the kill count from Viet Nam was in the corner of the screen on the nightly news. Us and them. Like a score board. Now I watch the nightly news and hope the body count is low. Its steady. Real fucking steady. Still is.
Cease fire my ass.
What is it going to take?