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The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Moving Testament to the Human Spirit
- Jackhas quotedlast year
I WAKE UP WITH AFRA’S HAND resting on my chest. I can feel her fingers on mine, but there is also something else. I re - Jackhas quotedlast yearHer unspoken words had opened a chasm, and from that place images came and went like dreams
- Jackhas quotedlast yearthis is the first time that she has agreed to venture out of our bedroom, to allow herself in some small way to be part of the world
Bless her
- Jackhas quotedlast yearshe can’t get rid of the dampness and the mould and the smell of terrible journeys filled with fear
- Jackhas quotedlast yearThere is an expression on her face I recognise from years ago, and it makes my sadness feel like something palpable, like a pulse, but it makes me afraid too, afraid of fate and chance, and hurt and harm, of the randomness of pain, how life can take everything from you all at once.
- Jackhas quotedlast yearI find Afra on our bed again
She must be very bored always in that bed :(
- Jackhas quotedlast yearSome children play with toys on a mat in the corner of the room.
This reminds me of going to the doctors so much!
- Jackhas quotedlast yearI notice a sketch pad and colouring pencils. I have some change in my pocket so I buy them for Afra.
I love how this man has literally nothing but yet still buys his wife small little gifts to try to make her smile. Bess him he’s cute
- Jackhas quotedlast yearI wish I could escape my mind, that I could be free of this world and everything I have known and seen in the last few years. And the children who have survived
- Jackhas quotedlast yearIt was strange to think how easy it had been to set up, that there existed an organised system for those of us who were lucky enough to be able to afford it.
It is actually crazy how easy people can find smugglers, its so sad that they are that desperate
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