Friend, A thing I love about Sri Lanka is how its shores yield different gradations of blue depending on where you are. I began writing this from somewhere in the south of Sri Lanka where the seas are a clear, healing aquamarine and sunlight lithely dances on the waves. Move deeper south and tints of turquoise green begin seeping into the water. (Sidebar: if you're interested in a Sri Lankan colour palette, here's
Nice. My defensive mechanism is not to follow the various wars including the one in Palestine. It is simply too depressing and there is very little that we can do about it. I know its a duck-out but being disengaged keeps me sane. As a matter of principle I now stay off all social media as well, I just get snippets of news from magazines and the press.
Very similar situation here in Pakistan, where sympathies rightly lie with Palestinians but are non-existent or state-apologetic when it comes to genocides and deportations happening within the country. The parallels are too stark to be unseen.
Nice. My defensive mechanism is not to follow the various wars including the one in Palestine. It is simply too depressing and there is very little that we can do about it. I know its a duck-out but being disengaged keeps me sane. As a matter of principle I now stay off all social media as well, I just get snippets of news from magazines and the press.
Very similar situation here in Pakistan, where sympathies rightly lie with Palestinians but are non-existent or state-apologetic when it comes to genocides and deportations happening within the country. The parallels are too stark to be unseen.