Tragedy. It's a word that's used a lot, often inappropriately, melodramatising a relatively mundane situation. Sometimes, though, you see things that are genuinely tragic. I've been watching a documentary about Carl Orff, best known as the composer of Carmina Burana, but one of the elements of his work that I didn't know about was his contribution to education through music. One of the contexts his work is used in, according to the programme, is special needs education, and there was quite a long segment about its use with a group of children with cerebral palsy in this country. One of the children was a pretty little boy with huge, beautiful eyes, but the knowledge that he could, through a mere accident of birth, never live a normal life upset me greatly. A tragedy. And nothing less.
Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B
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