Just when you thought Kabul was really horrible, it snows. The magic of snow is that it makes everything look so beautiful, clean and new. That’s not a sense we often get in Kabul.
Our kids loved it. A few days earlier, I came across this boy. He was playing with something else entirely. Yep, that’s a gun.
Your kids are adorable. I swear I had the same snowsuit as your daughter when I was her age! Oversize gloves, too.
The innocence of the little boy in the second photo contrasts so sharply with the gun. Bleak. In the bus station of Novi Pazar in Sandzak (Serbia) about a year ago, I saw a little buy pull a handgun from his mother’s bag, run outside, and fire it in the air before his mother grabbed it back. The boy was about eight years old. No one in the bus station seemed at all bothered or surprised. That moment summed up a lot. But, then again, we have much gun crime right here in Albany, NY, and plenty of it involves children.
By: Transitionland on February 13, 2009
at 8:19 pm
Well, that snowsuit was bought second hand from Bush Bazaar, so it is entirely possible it was yours.
By: Phil on February 13, 2009
at 9:53 pm
the dichotomy found in snow and the dichotomy found in child’s play carries many messages of truth – sad and happy, darkness and light, hate and love, life and death, freedom and captivity
Happy Valentine’s Day to God’s prescious Sparrows!
Love,
Yvette
By: sojourner on February 14, 2009
at 7:10 pm
Thanks Yvette! Valentines Day here was nice – crispy white snow and sun. We’d wanted to sleep in, but our daughter was hyper-excited and got up at 6.15 to make us all breakfast…
By: Phil on February 15, 2009
at 9:19 am