Five times 15.
Thank you.
Thank you for inviting me.
I am in my attic and I am a mad woman.
But I don't have a husband, which feels quite good sometimes.
I do have a lovely partner, though, who's very supportive.
Anyway, this is about peace, and I will try not to gabble.
And I hope that it brings you 15 minutes of peace and thought.
I thought that living would get easier the older I became.
Not true.
Perhaps I thought, as I learned the rules for living and how to behave,
that I would settle into my fragile shell of skin.
And if there are moments of silence in this, do not adjust your set.
Just look at the images of doves.
Because sometimes images are easier for me than words.
There should be silence between words, and the doves will keep you company.
My child's mind learned of war through television, through history.
And it seems that there's always the stories of war that we tell, seldom the stories of peace.
The accident of my birth made me fortunate.
I grew and have lived in a peaceful place so far.