Why were we captivated by the kids in the cave in Thailand but not the 1000s who die crossing the Med – is it the smaller number, that they were a footie team, we’ve been caving but not fled a warzone, or its simply a good story and we are lying to ourselves that we care?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Im impotent with compassion fatigue
\ni tend to turn off the news
\nI feel I need to do more, do differently, and sometimes I do and often I don’t. Each time a see a lifejacket wether on the news or canoeing in the lake, I see a Syrian child.
\nI squash the images to survive, I glimpse moments of joy and hold my daughter close, and each time pray I wrestle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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