devastating speech by the UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs.
"...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you"
"[in the West Bank] recently [Jewish] settlers abducted a 13 year old girl and her three-year-old brother. They were found tied to a tree. Do we also say to them that we did all that we could?"
"Future generations will hold us to account, we should fear that judgement."
Este poema de Antonio Machado —memorizado como un mantra— lo llevo siempre con mi vida. Su hondura equivale, para mí, a los ensayos de budismo Zen de Suzuki y a los haikus de Basho. Es un recordatorio para estar despierto.
«Tal vez tuvimos sólo siete noches
no sé
no las conté
[···]
pero precisamente como ésas
tal vez
pueda vivirse
como de un largo amor
toda una vida.»
~ Idea Vilariño
🎬 “Brief Encounter” (1945), David Lean