I had a post ready to roll today and, as I have explained before, you know how I love to keep this an angst-free-zone. I had somehow managed it through the election and the terrorist attacks in Manchester and London Bridge (and it's not because I am not thinking about them...I'm sure plenty of us were able to think about little else) but the tragic events of yesterday, the horrific fire in the London tower block...well somehow frivolity and piles of books just weren't going to cut it today.
What sadness and tragedy and utter devastation for so many lives and my thoughts are with them, with the emergency services, with the injured, with the families who have lost someone and lost everything else too, and with those who must now help this community to stay together and rebuild. It feels like a tragedy of immeasurable proportions that is rightly going to stay in our consciousness for many years to come here in the UK.
Helen Rappaport posted a link to this cover version of the Beatles' song Let it Be on Facebook yesterday and somehow it felt like a little flicker of light in a sad world, especially as I didn't know the history behind the song, and why Paul McCartney had written it....and those gentle piano chords too. It's a song that, for me, never fails to console...
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