Good run this morning — the first time I’ve felt really sound and steady in a while. Knees, hips, breathing, all were on track. Checking the newsletter for the week, fruit and coffee, shower and dress, Morning Prayer, and public office hours at R&R, I expect. We’ll video chat with Phil this afternoon, APCM tonight.
With regard to VE Day, I should note that, as a pacifist, I deplore the whole approach to collective conduct that results in warfare. That does not preclude, however, a sense of relief that a global armed conflict had drawn to a close — nor a cautionary observation that the persistence of smaller wars indicates that any ‘victory’ in that war suppressed, rather than resolved, the hostilities that had erupted into cruel, genocidal, hard-hearted national rivalries. We desperately need to recognise that the way to move people away from war involves assuring the health and well-being of all people, not simply the privileged caste of the most wealthy and powerful.