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Dec. 16th, 2008 12:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_kingsleyWe're putting the finishing touches on our shows, and I'm curious to see what this particular muggle camp is like. Many of them are overcrowded, groaning under the weight of the collective misery within. It's cruel and it's heartless, and once in a while I wonder if we'll ever make a difference.
I have to keep believing that we will. That we will forge on, and even if we do not see the Promised Land, perhaps someone afterwards will walk our path and find easier travel in the paths worn through time.
Going to New London serves as a cautionary tale. There is none of the vigor and bustle of a healthy, thriving city. The few wizards out on the street are miserable creatures, scuttling away and avoiding eye contact. There's no hope. No expectations. And, most importantly, no desire on the part of so many to see how life can be, but only in a concerted effort. Once we're deprived of something we hold dear, time will erase it, perhaps as a sanity measure.
So what I hope we can do, with our performances, is bring hope. We can't, and won't, rail against the Fourth Reich. But. We can make people laugh, and we can make them smile, and we can make them forget, for a while, their cares.
They'll look back and remember a time when there was laughter in their life. Life isn't perfect, but neither muggles or wizards have the monopoly on maltreatment of their others.
Remember, the surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. (Hermione, there's a quote for you to look up)
Blessings, love and laughs to you all.
I have to keep believing that we will. That we will forge on, and even if we do not see the Promised Land, perhaps someone afterwards will walk our path and find easier travel in the paths worn through time.
Going to New London serves as a cautionary tale. There is none of the vigor and bustle of a healthy, thriving city. The few wizards out on the street are miserable creatures, scuttling away and avoiding eye contact. There's no hope. No expectations. And, most importantly, no desire on the part of so many to see how life can be, but only in a concerted effort. Once we're deprived of something we hold dear, time will erase it, perhaps as a sanity measure.
So what I hope we can do, with our performances, is bring hope. We can't, and won't, rail against the Fourth Reich. But. We can make people laugh, and we can make them smile, and we can make them forget, for a while, their cares.
They'll look back and remember a time when there was laughter in their life. Life isn't perfect, but neither muggles or wizards have the monopoly on maltreatment of their others.
Remember, the surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. (Hermione, there's a quote for you to look up)
Blessings, love and laughs to you all.
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Date: 2008-12-16 11:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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