http://booksbywomen.org/this-too-shall-pass/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 13:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 http://booksbywomen.org/this-too-shall-pass/#comment-58077 Sun, 26 Jul 2020 01:47:02 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=31758#comment-58077 Yes to what you are saying. Some of us do learn, do stop and think. I was in Greece a long time ago standing on a hill and thinking it was no different three thousand years before, or was it. History should inspire us, awe us into thinking we need to preserve not destroy. Great post.

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/this-too-shall-pass/#comment-57216 Sun, 12 Jul 2020 18:26:40 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=31758#comment-57216 Thank you for this essay. There is much to be learned from survivors. There is a small town in Virgina that lost more young boys in WWII per capital than any other town in the US. It was not talked about for years, the survivors kept silent. In the 80s a young student heard about it and wrote an article in which she said she’d wished they’d spoken about their experiences for had young people known what they’d survived they would have felt much more hopeful about what they could endure. And they would have complained much less about the little things. All very relevant today when people complain about having to wear a mask.

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