{"id":2981,"date":"2022-03-03T07:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:06","slug":"a-picture-worth-a-thousand-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2022\/03\/03\/a-picture-worth-a-thousand-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"A picture worth a thousand tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/In-Paris-by-Matthew-Cobb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/In-Paris-by-Matthew-Cobb-825x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"781\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I saw this picture this morning, it made me cry. British Neuroscientist Matthew Cobb, who occasionally blogs on Evolutionary Biologist Jerry Coyne&#8217;s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.com\/2022\/03\/03\/thursday-hili-dialogue-374\/\">Why Evolution is True<\/a>\u201d blog, sent this picture to Jerry. It&#8217;s from a wall in Paris.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>War is stupid. War is fucking stupid. I don&#8217;t have the hate in my heart to kill someone over something else that I may want.<\/p>\n<p>Do have a look at the link to Jerry&#8217;s blog for today. While he&#8217;s posting about his trip and lecture to Antarctica, there are several Ukrainian-related links in his post.<\/p>\n<p>Life&#8217;s been a little bit heavy this week, so I haven&#8217;t had the chance to write much. I agreed to do a few things with Nebraska Press Women, which I need to finish up tonight or tomorrow. I hope to get something written this weekend and return to my normal schedule of posting next week.<\/p>\n<p>For now, this picture, and the few things below are all I got for now.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The tenderest moment of an otherwise terrible day. Of everything that happened yesterday, this young woman fleeing Kyiv with her cat stays with me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cUxYC8DvxY\">pic.twitter.com\/cUxYC8DvxY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 matthew cassel (@matthewcassel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewcassel\/status\/1497087143486930944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukraine-protest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ukraine-protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ted-cruz-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ted-cruz-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"606\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/17695891c3b5e441399164c1344ae24e40a6229cc5852d04ed843ff27f3a99a2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/17695891c3b5e441399164c1344ae24e40a6229cc5852d04ed843ff27f3a99a2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"412\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hillary-I-literally-warned-you-fuckers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Hillary-I-literally-warned-you-fuckers-1024x1015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"623\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/29cd7f8cb7b86da1f9ce1026d9cd8184142f5bcc92ccc9cb44e2e78df3bb1251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/29cd7f8cb7b86da1f9ce1026d9cd8184142f5bcc92ccc9cb44e2e78df3bb1251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"976\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dfd346247d9e024b8a2cca15f6885e4e8010c3fd30637c9ffc49524dcc4fd01b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dfd346247d9e024b8a2cca15f6885e4e8010c3fd30637c9ffc49524dcc4fd01b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6daf50968ccafc75b6f166018838963496e570a4658448546d26241b6a599530.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6daf50968ccafc75b6f166018838963496e570a4658448546d26241b6a599530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FLvpNzyXoAYtoxK-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FLvpNzyXoAYtoxK-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One final picture, partly because the 12-year old in me finds this funny and gross and partly because the news has overwhelmed me so much in the past couple of weeks. I&#8217;d like to start my week &#8211; yes, today is my Monday &#8211; with something to smile about. Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/omaha.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/nebraska-lawmakers-hire-attorney-to-investigate-ex-state-sen-mike-groenes-behavior\/article_ea71d946-999c-11ec-90a3-4fdcb97f3e5b.html\">disgraced<\/a> former Nebraska State Senator Mike Groene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/n9qvg7e1chq71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/n9qvg7e1chq71-844x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"763\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw this picture this morning, it made me cry. British Neuroscientist Matthew Cobb, who occasionally blogs on Evolutionary Biologist Jerry Coyne&#8217;s \u201cWhy Evolution is True\u201d blog, sent this picture to Jerry. It&#8217;s from a wall in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[254,288,384,393],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-nebraska","tag-politics","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}