Sublime

Like the parable of the loaves and fishes or that lamp in the Temple of David, the big bag of kibble was always half full.

Another Harbin exile, Alexander Galatzky, was eight during the pogroms of the 1919–1920 Russian Civil War, when he and his mother repeatedly barricaded themselves in their apartment in Ukraine and listened to the screams of their neighbors being murdered and raped.

Zalmen Gradowski.

Edwidge Danticat story: “Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt.”

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