Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"I've never understood why we're so proud of our ability to go to war - why? Galloping in, tearing things down takes little skill, less awareness, and achieves nothing. Just look at a one year old knocking over a tower of blocks or a child kicking over a sandcastle.

"The ability to build & maintain peace - bearing in mind that peace is an active thing, so very much more than an absence of war - now that is a true craft, one requiring myriad skills and full consciousness. From the Proto-Indo-European 'pak' - to stick, to fasten, to place - related to the Latin 'paciscor' - to agree, to stipulate - peace echoes of building solid foundations for stable, healthy societies that make war an improbability, hopefully obsolete. Now THAT would be something to be proud of."

-- Irim Sarwar, 2016-03-07

Y'all know that feeling when you've had so many dreams, and such busy ones, that you wake up convinced that it has to be hours later than it actually is (and feeling already tired)? I guess I had an Electric Prunes kind of night (though the subjects of my dreams were less interesting than the dream in the song.) But at least I managed to get 4.5 hours of sleep this morning with only one wake-up in the middle, which is way better than any of the last five days.