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Church bell for carers. Last in series. 8pm, 25/02/2021. Recorded on the village green. Still night. Almost full moon. Clear sky.
"Bearing other people's vulnerability - which means sharing in it imaginatively and practically without needing to get rid of it, to yank people out of it - entails being able to bear one's own."
- Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor, On Kindness (Penguin, 2010), p. 10
(emphasis added)
"Holocaust survivors were ordinary human beings who were forced to endure extraordinary events. The psychic processes available to them to respond were the same as those available to all humankind."
Alfred Garwood, Holocaust Trauma and Psychic Deformation: Psychoanalytic Reflections of a Holocaust Survivor, (Routledge, 2021), p. 6