SYBIL'S News Items From Around The Globe!!... London:

...and so, even with turmoil and strife and terrible tragedies in the news every day, it was important to remember that people had struggled before, and survived appalling circumstances before too. Entire cities had disappeared in flames and death in the 1940s, and it seemed to many that the world might end. Millions of people with homes and children and lives wagered everything and took up new and terrible weapons and wiped everything out in front of them gambling that somehow THEY might be the ones to inherit what little would be left of the Earth... and then, the stars, the seasons, and men's minds shifted, and people who had been ferocious and murderous enemies became allies, friends...and even families. And four elderly ladies who had been cowering, shivering infants in a bomb shelter, clutched fearfully by mothers who prayed that somehow their children would live to laugh again...four lovely, elderly ladies sat by the great and ancient Thames that had seen so much that was sad and joyous. They sat on a misting Spring day and opened their lunches, and watched the boats sail by...and the new bridge being built, and they marveled and chuckled at all of it... the river, the world, and the great mystery and wonder of life... (photo from Meredith Jane Grant)

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