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Tv Christmas

TV. Christmas TV channels are going mad in their hunt for happy Christmas tales, they have visited bald children in cancer wards, giving away presents, which seem to me to please the giver more than the receiver. Interviews with parents whose children soon will be dead, they try not to cry – for the children´s sake- and there is jollity wrappers hiding unbearable anguish. Today the dark side of the moon is not visible it will be tomorrow though, but then our compassion is exhausted by too much reality.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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Date: 1/7/2014 10:59:00 AM
Dear Jan - How sardonic can you get? These shows or ads or whatever they are, are self-serving but maybe helpful to the few who reap the benefit. No one wants to see the devastation of death afterward (why), but I don't think it diminishes a little happiness for the suffering. I saw your poem about Virginia's childhood on facebook. Does she still have the shoes? I hate to admit I was scanning facebook.
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 1/7/2014 11:52:00 AM
actually it was her mother, I have the old photo on my wall and will publish it here later

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