We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.
Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up.
I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.
I feel like I’m witnessing the systematic destruction of a people’s ability to survive. It’s horrifying.