Come across two authors: William Dalrymple (1965-) and Michael Axworthy (1962-2019). Going to read their books about Iran and India. Dalrymple has a podcast, EmpirePodUK. It is super. A good chunk of the depression we are feeling comes not just from watching fellow human being massacred with impunity but also the realisation that those who tasked with ‘representing’ us only represent money & power, that the wishes of millions of us is of no consequence to them
Book: Crime and Punishment “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Book: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop “<..> Reading makes you see with clearer eyes and understand the world better. When you do that , you become stronger - the feeling you associate with success. But at the same time with pain. Within the pages, there’s much suffering, beyond that we’ve gone through in our finite experience of life....
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks… the work for which all other work is but preparation."
Her story was told by her paintings.