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RE: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem performed in Johannesburg last night
Wow. What a beautiful write up of what sounds like an amazingly powerful performance. I actually got emotional reading this. War is one of those things that if you are lucky enough to not be affected by it in your day to day life it is just so much easier to pretend it doesn't exist... it is so hard to stomach that people can do this to each other. But then of course injustice and misery exist right in the midst of us wherever we are. I will pray for peace :) Much love - Carl
Dear @carlgnash, I've been wearing poppies since I was a child in the 1960s as a way for the adults to teach us about the horrors of WW1 and WW2, and I think the significance of war started to hit me even then, so their techniques must have worked...I recently found a school project I did on "ethnic clashes" in Zaire in the 1970s which sounded depressingly like some of the conflicts we still experience in Africa to this day. As you say, it's hard to stomach that people can do this to each other. I've always taken the experience of visiting war graves seriously, but only recently have I had the...opportunity, if that's the right word, of visiting such big cemeteries as can be found in the north of France. It is simply terrible to see the loss of potential and light in those places. I hope your prayers find root somewhere. Thank you for sharing your insights and your peace....
