Auschwitz: It Horrifies. But it Should Not Surprise Anyone.
Apart from the obvious lessons from Auschwitz, is the unsettling reality that the perpetrators here were not recognizable monsters in black and white. They were also loving fathers, brothers, and sons. They were art collectors, appreciated good music and danced at weddings. They went out for movies, cared for their flower garden and cried when their dogs died. They were, in other words, regular folks. Just like you and me.
Oceans and the Great Dying
The world may end but the sun yet will shine and the stars yet will twinkle in the night sky and the moon wax and wane. And many creatures, the fittest amongst us, the insects mostly and the vermin, that survived even the Great Dying, may survive yet again. But it won’t be the iridescent corals and it won’t certainly be us.
Mauritius. Deep in the Shallows.
For hiding in the lagoon is a wealth of marine beauty that can temporarily wash off any terrestrial visual assault. But Mauritius, much like other tropical islands, scattered messily in the Indian Ocean, can often satiate all touristy appetites, simply with the show of its beaches. The spread of the white sands, fringed by palm trees on one side and lapped on the other by a calm blue ocean, can bring on a lazy holiday stupor.