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Ideally, the celebration of #Pride should also be somewhat of a hybrid, containing an aspect of solemnity at the foundation of its naturally festive, glittery, party atmosphere.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/pride-2025-where-defiance-meets-hope-and-celebration-meets-remembrance-ba8e0502291d?sk=92b2d92e0db2efcfc461fd70f883df6c
Today's poem:
At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux
- by Charles Causley
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/784713464894685185/at-the-british-war-cemetery-bayeux?source=share
#CharlesCausley #death #war #WWII #sorrow #life #debt #bayeux #cemetery #remembrance
Today, I’m holding two countries in my heart — and two memorials.
In Israel, it’s Jerusalem Day, /yom ye-roo-sha-'la-yeem/.
In the U.S., it’s Memorial Day.
One marks the reunification of our eternal capital.
The other remembers those who gave their lives for freedom.
And as an Israeli living in America, I feel the weight of both — deeply.
Growing up in Israel, memorial days were never abstract.
Yom HaZikaron stops the entire country. Sirens sound. We stand in silence. We know the names. We’ve served alongside them. We’ve wept beside their families.
There’s no separation between "them" and "us."
Everyone serves.
Everyone remembers.
So when I came to the U.S. and saw Memorial Day marked with barbecues and sales, it was jarring at first.
But over time, I’ve come to understand the quiet dignity in how Americans grieve.
To the fallen, in every uniform:
We remember.
To Jerusalem — my forever center — we celebrate.
"Spider-Web"
from my cycle "The Seven Little Lanes"
recorded at the premiere in 2021 at the Holocaust Exposition in Vilnius, Lithuania
with Agnė Dukštaitė on accordion and yours truly on fadolín
For Sarah and Yaron.
May their memories be for a blessing... Baruch Dayan Emet.
#music #holocaust #remembrance #memory #vilnius #vilna #wilno
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"Spider-Web" from "The Seven Little Lanes" inspired by the book by Chaim Grade Ljova (fadolín) Agnė Dukštaitė (accordion) recorded…