Dogs Steal Yarn

Yeah, I.....(and she trails off, having said nothing.)

Please don't let those few people who are angry and violent and ugly steal so much from you. What they do is horrible, but there is so much more good than bad in the world. There are so many more good, kind, loving people who genuinely care for their fellow human beings regardless of whether they share the same ideals, morals, and values or not. I'm not sure why it's so much more fascinating to watch a tragedy on CNN, but that's what seems to be happening. What has happened in London is terrible. So is what happened in Spain and the USA and the rest of the places terrorist acts have taken place, but I feel like if I let them take away my joy in life and humanity, then I have let them win.

I'm sorry to rant. I just enjoy reading your blog so much, and I wanted to share my feelings in hopes that they will help lift yours. Maybe we need to start a kindnesses website where we can share the good things with the world instead of just the bad. I don't know. I just don't want to have any more of my belief in the goodness of humankind stolen.

Thanks for listening.

well said; I can't say that I have experienced what you have, or that I know first hand what it's like to experience what I see on the news, but I feel the same way you do today. Thank you for putting it out there.

I have the same dull heartbreak being on the other side of the world and knowing my friends are there, and that had I still been in London, my God, that's where I used to live, right at Tavistock square and, and, and it's just wrong to see your former home on the news like that. I have nothng else to say. There is nothing else I can say.

Just nodding silently.
I used to live in London. It used to be the IRA causing destruction. But the IRA has come to see reason. But this?

Ah, but the people who did this are NOT human. The humans are the ones who are stopping to help those who are hurt or scared, the ones pulling people out of wreckage, fighting the fires, the ones tending the wounded. The people trying to get on with their lives in the face of terrible adversity. They are the human ones. You can't blame this on the human race--we're the ones trying to make the world better--not tear it down. That's completely inhuman.

That is how I felt all day, but couldn't put into words. Thank you.

Yes, worn thin and tired and dull. There is hope somewhere, I'm just not sure where to look for it today.

deb, i have to disagree with you here. human / inhuman? it's a ridiculous argument. i'm sure that the people who were helping others were acting on their ideals just as much as the people who bombed. humans are both wonderful and terrible to each other. it's much too easy to reject those who do things we don't like as not being part of the human race - and it smacks of the same dualist rhetoric as "if you're not with us, you're against us." like it or not, we're all one people.

well, i never thought i'd be quoting winston churchill, but as he said in the middle of wwII, "never give in, never, never, never, never."
not to jump in any debate fray, but in response to the previous poster, i think it can be said that their actions were inhuman in that they are not life affirming, as deb mentioned. this is to distinguish from labeling them inhuman as such.

Thanks for writing this entry. I can't comprehend what they are going through.

Oh Cari, it's all awful, isn't it? I'll be thinking about you tonight, knitting my lovely soft lace scarf from your pattern. It gives me much joy.

Dull, tired, and resigned....throw in a bit of nausea and you nailed my reaction too, and described it better than I could have.

Hugs...hope to see you soon.

It was agonizing for us all on 9/11 but for a NYer it surely was a different experience than the way we had so far away. You have true empathy for the Londoner's. It's a sad, sad day when others are hurt, maimed and killed in the name of who knows what. GDITH

I just found your blog through Threadbear.
London - I am in shock. My heart goes out to the people of London as well as to all of us because we are all - all of humanity - affected by this insidious disease called terrorism.

I am going to comment on your dogs. I wholeheartedly support your rescue of homeless dogs. I have always thought my rescue doggy daughter was the "Queen of Comfort" but yours seem to be right up there with Abbey. We would have a house full (we have 5 acres) of rescue "children" except that Abbey despises anything on 4 legs.

I love your Lizard Socks and plan to make a pair for myself as soon as my needles are freed up again.

Lindy in Hot (but it's a dry heat:) AZ

De-lurking again to say I love reading you because you always say what I can't seem to...

Amen.

Stepping out of the lurking shadows, as I read your blog every day. Your words speak volumes and as a fellow New Yorker and as a member of a family directly affected by 9/11 you are right, feelings can be "stretched thin". I am someone who apologies to my little beagle if I step on his foot, and so cannot comprehend such violence. But, like the child I was so many years ago who hated the thunder and lightening of a summer storm, I want to pull the covers over my head and pray that it will all stop soon. Ah well...

I am just bewildered as to how people can think that the end justifys the means. I was in London last Thursday and spent a large part of the day travelling the tube. I saw people of every creed, colour, religion on those trains so just who did they think they were targeting?

I grew up in London so this has hit home. All I can share with you is that the ability to carry on and find joy is the secret to overcoming this. Times like this, you have to see the good and the beautiful in order to survive. I'll be thinking of you and lighting a candle to help you weather this darkness.

sigh.

it is not a very nice world out there.

you become so angry, and then sad, and then.....olivia smiles. and you remember how amazing life can be.

sigh