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seeing the horror Not too surprisingly when I woke today, I was little sore from all of the lifting that I did during the move yesterday. I think that the key word in that last sentence would be little. The soreness that I was feeling wasn't that extreme and in many ways it felt good to be that active for a change. Ever since I got back home from Europe, I've been stuck sitting at my job for forty hours a week and that has to be the furthest thing from exercise that I can imagine doing. ... I watched the movie Schindler's List for the first time since I saw Auschwitz a couple of weeks ago when I was in Poland. Now having been there, the film does seem a little different to me. I knew that the place existed, but seeing it on a screen and actually walking between the buildings are two entirely different experiences. What struck me the most while I was there was all of the green that I could see around me. Instead of a gray place full of mud and dying, there were trees and grass wherever I looked. Reality didn't match what I had seen over and over again in documentaries and still photographs from when it was being used sixty years ago. I can understand why things have changed, but the contrast did still make an impression on me. |