The awful events in Burma and China have brought home to me how vulnerable we all are really. My wife and I were discussing The Great Wall of China just before the weekend. Her grandma walked it as a pensioner (apparently), I thought it was too long to walk but didn't know anything about it: except that it is the only man made structure visible from space - I had somehow lodged that fact in my brain. The Wall has always fascinated me, the beauty of it, the brutality of the work (over a million people died in its construction) and the pointlessness of it to an extent. I hope that relief gets to the people who need it and fast.
3 comments:
it is a beautiful thing to see.. I didn't know that you could see it from space... I hope they get relief soon too..
I have to say that this horrible disaster is being pretty lightly covered in this portion of the world. Seems beyond disgraceful to me.
Mrs HW: Hope so, seems too late for Burma - what a tragedy.
LB: Too true
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