We Were So Happy

33 Replies to “We Were So Happy”

1. Beautiful and heartbreaking.

   1. Suddenly every person’s story is like a Shakespearean tragedy.

      1. Yes. Sigh.

2. It’s all quite unimaginable. The simple beauty of your post set against the horror of the destruction there is a stark reminder of how much is being lost.

   1. Just when we thought humanity could not be more vulnerable.

3. Heartbreaking … what a sadness … what a horror.

   1. And all the worse to witness because it is wilful.

4. A great reminder that at any moment our lives can change and everything we treasure can be lost.

   1. I agree, Katherine.

   2. I do believe it could happen to any country in the world and we ought to bear that in mind.

5. I think that this has touched the world

   1. The most of it, though evidently not the hearts of the people who are ordering or supporting the invasion

      1. It’s a stark difference between those who are sympathetic towards the suffering and those who are willing to inflict it upon them. Heartbreaking that anyone can carry out such evil.

6. You have tapped into the moment beautifully with those almost-wistful sunflowers and the grieving woman. I cannot imagine how deeply torn those women are, so relieved to be saving their children and yet leaving their husbands, their homes, and certainly in many cases their elderly parents. I so hope their sunflowers can return some day.

   1. I hope so too.

7. I was looking at the news headlines on Twitter tonight. It’s just so wrong!

   1. A harsh reminder not to undervalue democracy, even if it can not deliver everything we could hope for.

8. Such poignancy in one short sentence. And perfect photos to go with it. Touching post.

   1. I wish the Russian people could see the same images that we can.

      1. That would make a big difference.

9. It is heart-breaking isn’t it, and such a tragedy for all these families

   1. It is.

10. If other wars haven’t touched our hearts so much, the plight of the refugees in Ukraine certainly have and can’t be ignored. The lines of women and children waiting for trains was reminiscent of WWII.

    The image of the lovely sunflowers you’ve shared reminds me of the fields I travelled through in Turkey in 1976. I wonder if Ukraine has/had similar fields?

    1. The country is filled with huge fields of flowers; they’ve been a great exported of both seed and oil. If you do an image search for ‘Ukraine sunflower fields’ there are magnificent photos.

    2. You’re right about echoes of WWII.

11. The pairing you chose is so poignant, and so appropriate.

    1. Peace will come, but too late for millions of people whose lives will never be as they ought to have been.

12. A simple, telling message

    1. Our words fail in comparison.

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