Over the weekend we wrestled with some pretty uncomfortable emotions; like insects under the skin, we found no rest.
The evolving story of mayhem and Al-Shabab insanity at the Westgate Shopping Mall grew and grew from Saturday onwards, leaking out terrible stories of terror and fear, which then spilled into Monday and Tuesday. We watched the unfolding news on Al Jazeera mostly, as the BBC were pretty rubbish and with severe disquiet, wondering what sort of person could possibly carry out such atrocities.
A happy Saturday morning shopping trip, turned into hell-on-earth for over a thousand ordinary people...ordinary people, like you and me, who were out buying trainers, picking up holiday souvenirs, bringing their children to a puppet show, buying an engagement ring or treating themselves to a Java coffee (which is what we might have done).
And now....what now?
We're wondering how those who survived Westgate will move into their futures.
This has been so momentous, so traumatising for so many! Like all the terrible, traumatic events that come blazing into our lives with the ability to paralyse and devastate our inner worlds... there is always 'tomorrow' as long as we are alive. Some will find the resilience to graft this shocking experience into the tapestry of their life to come and others, we know, will be deeply scared for life. Our levels of resilience are only tested, unfortunately, in the red-hot fires of life.
To find some sense of inner equilibrium and normality we took ourselves off to the nearby elephant orphanage on Monday which was blissful and then on to meet Helen the oh-so-friendly giraffe.
So here we share with you some photo's from our healing morning. - JB
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| Elephant tug of war |
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| Baby elephants at their orphanage - bottle fed every 3 hrs for 2 years |
