A funny sort of day. For the most part it went well for me, though I needed to deal with a sore back. Even then it was just sore, which is a lot, lot better than painful, and easy to live with. Yet somehow it felt like a sad day. Not my sadness, exactly, but my dispiriting awareness of the sadness of others.
Case in point, a devastating report on Sky News in the early evening about the dire state of hospitals for children in Afghanistan. Trying to count one's own many blessings in the shadow of such truth just feels monumentally selfish. This is territory that goes beyond words. They don't just fail; they become obtrusively irrelevant.
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