Skywatch Friday and some Prose

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Walking home after movie night with a friend, I passed this street near my home in Amsterdam:

With a neighbour I sat on a bench overlooking this body of water:

After an emotional couple of hours (a friend had passed) I decided to do some 'uitwaaien'. A Dutch expression literally meaning 'out blowing': letting a breeze help you get rid of the virtual cobwebs in your mind. Usually done at the beach but anywhere where you can catch a bit of wind while walking is basically fine. A bird was kind enough to fly low into the frame as I hit the shutter button. I like to think my dead friend flew by to say hi.

After lunch with a friend (yeah for friends who are still alive!) I passed several canals in the town center, including this one. Fun fact: Amsterdam has about three times as many canals as Venice, Italy. Not Venice Beach, California.

In yet another part of Amsterdam lives a friend who celebrated her birthday. Nice to know we still get along after we dated for some time, some 28 years ago. And to my pleasant surprise her parents were there too!

The passing of the friend inspired my to write this poem. I call this genre 'circle poem' because the last line is identical to the first one):

To catch a Shadow (a #CirclePoem)

How to catch a shadow 

if you've never chased a dream?

On time moving on

without knowing it stood still 

or on promises broken 

by a night or the will 

to end the ability 

to describe an angel 

without ever having seen one 

or even heard of their existence?

Try to love 

without empathy and you'll fail.

Try to feel

without touch and you'll fall 

because you'll never know 

how to catch a shadow 

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Racists really don't understand racism

At a Greyhound bus terminal in 1988, somewhere in the Midwest. Nice conversation with an elderly, white, Christian lady. She said things like: "We should all get along, human rights are for every person and I don't understand racism." A (mixed) couple walks by..."What a shame they are going to hell. Everyone should stick to their own race!" She was right about not understanding racism.

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Racists come in all shapes and sizes. And I will never be able to understand them. Partly because racists themselves don't understand racism.

As in this sad example:

This sad story reminds me of a a Dutch zionist (simply a - former Catholic - racist who went to a Shul one day and decided to call himself Jewish so he could call people antisemetic if they called him out on his anti-muslim BS) who said he knew a lady in Israel who sometimes couldn't sleep at night because of warning sirens in the distance. 

Why are dumb right people of any kind such cry babies? 

Here's one crying that bars and clubs in an apartheid state deny him access because of his dark skin colour. 

What did he expect? I know for a fact that Israel - in general - is racist because the Israeli government itself hasted itself to state that they are not. 

"All the few dozen establishments this gentlemen tried to get into were actually full that particular evening. That you see that 80% of all seats are empty means that they were all reserved." Mein jee! I've heard better excuses from kids caught with their hand in the cookie jar. 

If a fascist says that he is not, would you believe him?

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