If you bicycle and you can make out the white bike amidst the flowers and candles you know what this is. A boy on his bike was hit by a car and killed on Easter in the crosswalk at an intersection near my house. He was thrown 100 feet. The car, a Mercedes Benz, did not stop.
Did. Not. Stop.
Friends of the boy, who would have graduated from high school this June, keep the flowers fresh and the candles lit.
I pass by this corner every day.
Then there was this on Patriots' Day in Boston.
Not in my neighborhood, but it still seems to matter.
More people were probably killed in Damascus that day. But
But
I have nothing to follow that but.
And then this.
Walmart, H&M and Gap: Do your part to stop the murders of garment workers in BangladeshHere is a report on conditions in Dhaka Bangladesh, prompted by the Tazreen Fashion fire last November, and why they are so hard to change.There is so little I can do about any of this but at least I try not to buy new clothes.
I am here sitting next to you as we watch these things happen.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mary. Sane and wise company matters a lot.
ReplyDeletewe have some of those ghostbikes here too, the one i pass everyday has long since stopped having fresh flowers, just one old dry bunch.
ReplyDeleteit often strikes me that so many things are a battle and what is unacceptable to one person is ok to another. people v machines, stopping v not stopping, wants v needs... what can you do apart from make the choices you think would make the world a better place one tiny bit at a time.
and on a far less philosophical matter the small amount of spam i get is along similar lines to the onions on chilblains!