Saturday, April 10, 2010

moment of joy, morning of sadness

We ate at the counter of Boston's O Ya. Plates of food that astonish and please all the senses.

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The rain has stopped. We walk to the South Station T stop, pausing just for a split second to contemplate the perfectness of the moment.



I wake up to a bright and beautiful day.

...and I spend the hours reading all the Polish press online about the tragedy in Smoleńsk. Eighty-eight precious lives. A president, senators, military leaders, the grandchildren of those who died nearby, in another tragedy not too many years before I was born.

Today, it's hard to be a Pole.

3 comments:

  1. What a tragedy. My sympathies.

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  2. Please accept my condolences. A genuinely tragic loss of lives, made all the more devastating by its locale and the purpose of their trip. I can't think of another modern instance of such an accomplished group of people from one nation perishing in a single instant.

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  3. Devastating. I immediately thought of you when I heard. My condolences to you, daughter of Poland, and to all the Polish people. Such sadness for a nation and the world.

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