tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916523607533787507.post6300764541962537231..comments2022-10-09T19:55:56.658-05:00Comments on Wildspell: Tales of the TowerWyld Oakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07724169384339460086noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916523607533787507.post-7152302174844508922013-05-10T04:58:55.027-05:002013-05-10T04:58:55.027-05:00Yes, indeed...and there is an oddness in the juxta...Yes, indeed...and there is an oddness in the juxtaposition of entertainment with tragedy. It is the hidden places where some of the worst atrocities seem to occur, the concentration camps and the prisons, or within the confines of private houses, away from public view and censure and help. I'm thinking of abducted children. <br /><br />But these are very dark thoughts, and so many, many more of us are kind and compassionate. We must use our powers for good at every turn to overwhelm feelings despair and powerlessness, flood ourselves with love that spills over and alters the chemistry of air and water. Wyld Oakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07724169384339460086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916523607533787507.post-57910325784741098842013-05-09T16:56:09.036-05:002013-05-09T16:56:09.036-05:00I wouls love to visit the Tower, to stand where so...I wouls love to visit the Tower, to stand where so many of my heroes and heroines stood and dreamed and prayed. But it is a very sad place. <br /><br />Of course, we still have places like that thriving today - look at Guantanamo Bay, for example :-(<br /><br />sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03818420999930644450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916523607533787507.post-5007137748891904072013-05-09T08:50:46.551-05:002013-05-09T08:50:46.551-05:00In a Gaiman short story I read recently, his prota...In a Gaiman short story I read recently, his protagonists wonders what it's like to live in a place where a 50-year-old building is considered old. But even here, in America, a relatively youthful country, there is so much despair in its history. <br /><br />What you've said about the tower and ravens reminds me of when the conquistadors visited Mesoamerica and witnessed human sacrifice. They, of course, thought the indigenous peoples were crazy, serving the devil, etc. But at that same time, witches and heretics were being burned, tortured on a daily basis at home and all over Europe. And this all reminds me of the gay rights debate today, how people against the movement will recite the same bible passages people used to support slavery. Of course, racism is considered so, so wrong and those bible-thumpers were way backwards, but we're actually really right about this whole gay thing. <br /><br />Everything makes me hope history will not yet again repeat itself, that we can show compassion to every human as well as ravens. And not think we're always so much more enlightened than either our past or another people.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08397400242153470523noreply@blogger.com