Another day of
pretending it didn't happen: it's just news on the TV, only as real as "reality
TV"… Another day of counting blessings: they're alive, it was close, but they're
all okay; all those I care about made it through… Another day of moving
forward: everyone's okay, move on, next; there's a project to work on, a symposium
to organize, the things of the civilized world, the world where people voice
their misapprehensions instead of bomb them… Another day behind the impregnable
borders of this world, this safe grey world of rules: try as they may, desperate
outsiders can only dent the peace of its gates by their insistence of dying
against them every now and again… Another
day, another reminder of mortality, of distance, of the frailty of life, the
futility of our endeavors, the silliness of our humanity…
Terror strikes again in Beirut southern suburbs, five dead
(Text originally posted on November 19, 2013)
