We are mourning with our colleagues in WCK.
7 of their aid workers were killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza.
WCK had informed the IDF of their movement.
Nowhere else are so many aid workers killed.
There must be an immediate ceasefire. Enough now.
wck.org/news/gaza-team…

#poetrylovers

much pleasure here ⬇️

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Thank you Thank you Thank you Dead Poets Live for the absolute truth of Gerard Manley Hopkins

we became his grief
we became his glory

Joshua James & Peter McDonald
were magnificent.

'They are preventing aid to starving children.'

Jan Egeland tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy very little humanitarian aid has entered besieged Gaza since 7 October, and 'tens of thousands' of aid trucks have been denied access by Israel.

At any street corner and there are flimsy shelters for #Gaza ’s displaced here in Rafah. No garbage collection, no sewage, lack of food and water. Aid trucks are stuck next door in Israel and Egypt. The desperation is growing. Only hope is a ceasefire and an end to this nightmare

Shocked by conditions at this school in Rafah, #Gaza . 4500 here come from Gaza City, Khan Younis etc. The disabled, the pregnant and the newborn share18 latrines with 4500 others. Malnutrition, epidemic disease and trauma is everywhere. NRC providing all the aid we can get in.

Hundreds of aid trucks wait in line to cross into Gaza at the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings to a starving civilian population. There has not been a single day we have gotten the needed 500 trucks across. The system is broken and Israel could fix it for the sake of the innocent

Destruction, despair and desperation here in Rafah, #Gaza , where 1,4 million Palestinians have sought refuge from the devastation elsewhere.
People cry for a ceasefire, they cannot sustain more suffering. The displaced are seeking shelter everywhere:

Iris Murdoch
Irish-British philosopher & novelist

15 July 1919 - 8 February 1999

#otd
25th anniversary of her death

'Goodness is connected with the acceptance of real death and real chance and real transience and only against the background of this acceptance, which is psychologically so difficult, can we understand the full extent of what virtue is like.'

Iris died #otd 25 years ago.

I was in the audience this afternoon Jermyn Street Theatre

Superb play

Magnificent performances by
Anna Fordham
Sabrina Wu
Lydia Larson
Amber Sylvia Edwards

Reread The Crucible by Arthur Miller just before you go (as I did) and reap an enhanced experience‼️

‘Anyone, anyone can break loose from his chains. That courage, no matter how deeply buried, is always waiting to be called out. All it needs is the right coaxing, the right voice to do that coaxing, & it will come roaring like a tiger.’

William Melvin Kelley
A Different Drummer

‘I mean it seems horrible that the most you can do for people you love is leave them alone.’

William Melvin Kelley
A Different Drummer (1962)

‘Love had a thousand shapes. There might be lovers whose gift it was to choose…
…one of those globed compacted things over which thought lingers. And love plays.’

Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse (1927)

World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural.

Louis MacNeice

A magnificent Kodachrome of New York in 1964 by Evelyn Hofer. Like a scene from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

I was there last night

A marvellous introduction by James Lever

A magnificent performance by Éanna Hardwicke

#AutumnJournal
#LouisMacNeice

‘And all we did
In that city was drink and think and loiter.
And in the Prado half-
wit princes looked from the canvas they had paid for
(Goya had the laugh -
But can what is corrupt be cured by laughter?)

Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journal vi
(1939)

Life is good, so very good.