Grief

Disbelieve, sadness, anger, these are just three of the emotions present when people are grieving. The day after the shocking terror attack on the surface it looked like life as usual in the suburbs, there was light, birds were chirping, people went to work, but everybody seemed to smile timidly to each other and if possible talked about what they had seen or done yesterday. More news about the attackers and about the dead, the wounded and the missing is appearing, and it means more anger, more disbelief, more sadness. There was a man shouting loud through the minute silence and the people on the Bourse square are louder today. It will take quite some time before it will be life as usual, and in any case it won't be the same. I didn't really feel like taking pictures today, but I thought these gerbera daisies and the image edited so that it had mainly the colours of the Belgian flag could work as my Blip today.

Thank you so much for your support, comments, stars and faves for yesterday's Blip. Like I wrote yesterday, my family is fine, my friends and husband's co-workers are all accounted for, for us it's just the shock of something horrible happening so close to you, of it happening in places where we're often , which we use, knowing it could have been any of us dead or wounded. But for countless people it's about family and friends, dead, missing, horribly wounded, ordinary people doing ordinary things, going to work, going to town, going on a holiday, going home, and now not coming back or coming back wounded. The victims come from 40 countries, so it's rather international. The thugs who did this wrecked the lives of so many people but they should not get the satisfaction of wrecking our way of life, of taking away our freedom. We have to find a way to stop this terror. There has to be light, like there was last night when on that dark day for Belgium and Europe the moon came shining through (see extra)