ONE WAY THE WORLD REALLY IS

...because more and more we want to hear the world, not as a beautiful tune but as it really is. —Wassily Kandinsky, from "The Problem of Form" (1912)

Just something I ran across in my reading tonight. (Some of you know I don't normally resonate with the Modernists—at all—but here you have it.)

Tonight I went to a play and heard a bit of the world as it really is.

As it is, we should cry, and gag, and hurt. We should scream and be angry and cower and fall prostrate on the ground. But we should also hope, because we have been given bodies: hands and feet and faces and lips to translate the story again.

Thank you to those of you who helped tell it; thank you to those of you who might read this, follow the links, and care.

Only a few links (so many others...just keep clicking and learning!):

-The Cries of Wolves, by the Calvin Theatre Company

-Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis

-Second Chechen War Crimes and Terrorism

-Timeline: Chechnya

-List of Human Rights Cases Pending Before European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)