How wondrous that we live in a world where flowers bloom every spring.
That out of all the galaxies, we ended up on this planet where flowers rise from the soil. They bloom in gardens and along roadsides — even in the harsh deserts of Death Valley and Iran. Out of dust and heat, something delicate insists on growing and blooming.
This spring, our world of flowers is being torn apart.
Schoolchildren are bombed in their classrooms. Flowers pressed between the pages of their books turn to ash. Bombs fall from blue skies over Iran and Israel, across the Middle East, leaving families to search through rubble for the scattered petals of their lives.
These bombs are sent by hollow men who order others to leave their homes and families to drop bombs on other families. They are powerful men so empty there are cobwebs where there once was a soul. Men who have forgotten they live in a world of flowers and are unable to feel.
This spring, will the white-throated robin still sing in Iran's mountains? Will the Persian rose find light beneath skies darkened by the black smoke of oil fires blotting out the sun? Will white lilies be found this Easter in the rubble of bombed Lebanese churches? Will children who survive this war remember, through their trauma and grief, that this is a world with flowers?
I'm Dan Kenney, and this is my perspective.
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