What Is There To Say?
Our communications technology makes it possible now for billions to either sit in front of a television set, watch YouTube, tune in by Blackberry,scan blogs from many nations......to hear and see the barbaric events that seem to be coming all too commonplace.
The most current eruption being the Lebanon/Israeli insanities.
I have decided to read and view as many individual blogs as I can find time for. One that I visited today is a young girl in Baghdad. Blogs more about what we might consider mundane things, her anxiety about the grades she is waiting for that will determine if she gets into university, with the angst of telling about relatives home being destructed by car bomb without fatalities and injuries not too critical.
Remarks on the housechores her mom assigns to her, signifying how this universal mother/teen-age daughter scene plays out across cultures.
I assume she must be seventeen or eighteen years old - getting pressure to pursue a career in pharmacy or medicine instead of the field she favors...computer programming.
She blogs in English as a way to encourage comments from other than just Iraqis and polish her already incredible language skill which is superb. A sense of connectedness results from learning the details of her personal life.Her home town is Mosul, that we have heard so much about, but the family moved to Baghdad and there is extended family there, so you hear about the aunts, uncles, baby nieces - again making learning of events there much more realistic than when hearing "professional" (ahem) journalists reporting.
As I read more and more of these, from Israel, Palestine and Iraq, It gives me quite a different feel for what daily life is like in each of these countries and how the individuals are affected. And one get concerned when a favorite blogger hasn't made an entry for many days, interrupting what has seemed to be somewhat of a time pattern in their entries.
It, to me, is another consciousness elevating experience.
Why don't you join in? Googling can introduce you to lists so I won't include them here.
Some of them post personal video they have themselves recorded. The devastation is ...well, devastating.
graysmoke
The most current eruption being the Lebanon/Israeli insanities.
I have decided to read and view as many individual blogs as I can find time for. One that I visited today is a young girl in Baghdad. Blogs more about what we might consider mundane things, her anxiety about the grades she is waiting for that will determine if she gets into university, with the angst of telling about relatives home being destructed by car bomb without fatalities and injuries not too critical.
Remarks on the housechores her mom assigns to her, signifying how this universal mother/teen-age daughter scene plays out across cultures.
I assume she must be seventeen or eighteen years old - getting pressure to pursue a career in pharmacy or medicine instead of the field she favors...computer programming.
She blogs in English as a way to encourage comments from other than just Iraqis and polish her already incredible language skill which is superb. A sense of connectedness results from learning the details of her personal life.Her home town is Mosul, that we have heard so much about, but the family moved to Baghdad and there is extended family there, so you hear about the aunts, uncles, baby nieces - again making learning of events there much more realistic than when hearing "professional" (ahem) journalists reporting.
As I read more and more of these, from Israel, Palestine and Iraq, It gives me quite a different feel for what daily life is like in each of these countries and how the individuals are affected. And one get concerned when a favorite blogger hasn't made an entry for many days, interrupting what has seemed to be somewhat of a time pattern in their entries.
It, to me, is another consciousness elevating experience.
Why don't you join in? Googling can introduce you to lists so I won't include them here.
Some of them post personal video they have themselves recorded. The devastation is ...well, devastating.
graysmoke
posted by graysmoke @ 1:59 PM
1 Comments:
At 9:31 AM ,
lawnorder said...
Can't really handle seeing so many devastating news anymore, not on a daily basis, to be sure! But I do post at Youtube occasionally.
I left CGCS because my computer crashed and I lost the link and password. Send me the link again, if you can, please. How are things at the forum ?
- law
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