Killer cars, Controversial Statues, Static Migraine

Statues - Good or Bad?

Another car/van attack on crowds, this time in Barcelona, with 13 killed and scores injured. Three men were in the white van that drove for half a mile through crowds in the pedestrianised Las Ramblas. arrests have been made but the news is still confusing, with tourists told to continue hiding in Museums as the search goes on for the perpetrators.

President Trump is still receiving flack for missing the point about the difference between the divisive, discriminatory Nazi & white supremacists and the protestors against them.

Instead, he shifted the focus to the statues used by the far right as their justification for demonstration.

Echoes of an older conflict reverberate in the US, with statues of Confederate leaders like General Robert E Lee forming the focus from the alt right and on the opposing side, human and black rights campaigners.

The ugly legacy of the slave trade and apartheid/racism is also present in UK statues of Cecil Rhodes and successful businessmen of the 18th/19th century.

Should statues of a different time and morals be removed, perhaps to museums, or do they serve as reminders of different attitudes and ethics being preferred today? That's a debate to be had. It is not a justification for race hate and division.

I had a gentle day today, having woken up with pre-migraine/migraine - erratic images flitting though my waking dreams and disconnected thoughts on waking. I was conscious but unable to move, not because my limbs would not work, I simply lacked the volition to connect thought to action. Eventually managed to get up to take tablets and then returned to bed till midday. The lassitude and exhaustion gradually decreasing throughout the afternoon. I took time to create another 'Unusual Occurrence at Hall End' photograph, the first for several months.