Staggering news

It was very unfortunate that the first thing I read this morning was an article about the brutal assassination of a teenager in London. One of the 27 teenagers that have recently been killed in London. What is so shocking is the reaction of a gang of his murderes (the youngest aged 14), among them girls laughing and shouting "kill him" while he was begging for life and lying covered in his own blood. Then, there were people passing by who have witnessed it all but did not do anything to help. It all does not make sense. Very upsetting.
And then Burma devastated by a cyclone with hundred thousand people who simply perished.

This is a context for other people making their own little wars every day, creating problems, arguing about unimportant things, injuring each other emotionally. Why do we do that?

I believe that we can only do good things in a microscale (sometimes they may become huge). They have to start in ourselves and around us, maybe with a smile at someone who seems to be upset and is sitting in front of us on the tube. There is no point in making this dangerous world even more unpleasant.

There is beauty, there are friendships, there are a lot of little nice things so to the same extent as the beginning of my day was upseting, its end was calming. I have seen a beautiful new moon on a bright sky, and it all resembled 'The Tales of Narnia", especially the lantern...

And music of Weckmann and Sheidemann reflecting true human passions, the same ones as ours... Scheidemann died in a plague. Probably as unexpected as a cyclone. How fragile is human life. Yet, how powerful! He composed great music, a scource of beauty to which we can refer 350 years later...