I don't even really want to talk about it. That's my way of coping. Just know that this:
is a really horrible thing.
Also horrible - that this place, one of my favorite places in Syria, also seen in these photos of ours from 2004/2005:
now looks like this (image via Hala Gorani's Twitter feed):
The end, UGH.
PS - the Aleppo souq looks/looked like this:
Allow me to be sentimental for a moment and tell you that on the day this photo was taken, I felt Sasha (1.0, aka the baby that was born as Miriam Damascus) move for the first time, right there in the Aleppo souq.
And I guess maybe I do want to talk about it a little. The reason I share these things, these pictures with you is not because I think you won't hear about it anywhere else. I know Syria is all over the news these days. But I want you to know that this is a real place, where real people live, and it's a beautiful place. And what's happening there now is a crying shame.
Also horrible - that this place, one of my favorite places in Syria, also seen in these photos of ours from 2004/2005:
PS - the Aleppo souq looks/looked like this:
And I guess maybe I do want to talk about it a little. The reason I share these things, these pictures with you is not because I think you won't hear about it anywhere else. I know Syria is all over the news these days. But I want you to know that this is a real place, where real people live, and it's a beautiful place. And what's happening there now is a crying shame.
