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Deviation Actions

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Please lay down your pistols and your rifles
Please lay down your colours and your creeds
Please lay down your thoughts of being no-one
Concentrate on what you ought to be 
Then lay down your bullshit and your protests
Then lay down your governments of greed
Take a look at what lies all around you
Then pray God we can live in peace
Everyone's a loner 'till he needs a helping hand
Everyone is everybody else
Everyone's a no-one 'till he wants to make a stand
God alone knows how we will survive

It seems that every time I write a journal these days it follows a terrorist attack. Last night, on London Bridge at about 10pm a van drove into a crowd of people enjoying a summer night out in London. The three men in the van then jumped out and went to a busy place called Borough Market where they stabbed people at random. Six people were killed and forty eight taken to hospital following the attack. Police shot the three terrorists dead within 8 minutes of the attack starting. 
when I was thinking about what to write today my thoughts were of celebration as a result of the huge outpouring of love and humanity that followed the attack at Manchester Arena two weeks ago. If you don't know, at the end of a concert by Ariana Grande there was a suicide bomber in the lobby of the Arena with a nail bomb resulting in the deaths and maiming of many young people and children as well as parents. This attack is regarded as worse than the usual attack as it deliberately targeted children (mainly young girls) and young people just out for maybe their first concert or just for a good night out with friends and parents. (I have to say that it comes to something when we grade terrorist acts by how we perceive the level of attrocity. The world is in a bad place right now.)
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Before you all just switch off and go away let me lift your hearts a little. Following the attacks that have happened in recent times we have heard many heart warming stories in the aftermath of the horror. At Manchester I will start with two homeless men. They were in the area of the Arena to beg for money for food after the concert. When the bomb went off they both went straight in to help the injured and dying. One of them was reported as holding a lady as she died and also of picking nails out of a young girls face as she waited for help from doctors. They stayed there helping all they could. When spoken to after they said they were homeless but they were still human beings and just did what anyone would. These men are probably looked down on by a large section of society every day of their lives yet they went into danger with no questions. One of these men has been given a home for six months by a co-owner of West Ham United football club to try and help him get back on his feet.
There were restaurants of all faiths who just opened their doors and fed everyone for free. There was a pizza company who sent food all night and day to the local hospitals for the doctors and nurses for free. There were taxi firms driving people wherever they needed to go for free.  There were people offering rooms in their homes so people had somewhere they could go. People were housed and fed by hotels who just took them in for free. People queued up in long lines to give blood. It was quite incredible to see this outpouring of humanity from all sections of the community. And, as usual, the Policemen, the Firemen, Doctors and nurses all ran towards danger with no thought for themselves despite the fact that our government has not seen them worth a pay rise in six years. They deserve so much more for what they do. 

Today there is a huge benefit concert in Manchester for the families of the injured and those who lost someone in the attack. It is huge. It is called One Love. They will now, sadly, also be remembering those lost in the London attack last night. The concert stars Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams, Take That, Niall Horan, Little Mix, Robbie Williams and Black Eyed Peas.
Because it is so soon after the attack some of the children are still in hospital so Ariana Grande has been to visit all of them and spend time with them. One is only 8 year old. She was the last one to be visited and was treated so beautifully. 
The concert was fantastic. Although many of the artists were not my particular cup of tea they all performed exceptionally. Ariana Grande proved herself to be a generous young lady with a great voice and a desire to mend the hurt that happened at Manchester. The things she has done to help the families behind the scenes is remarkable. I will be honest.....I had not come across her before but I don't think I will forget her now. 

Though these attacks will always cause hurt and terrible sadness they are making our countries stronger. They have given our people the chance to show just what they can do. How much love they can show and share. How they can come together. After every adversity there is a blooming of hope, love and life. Never ever lose hope. Keep spreading the love each and every day. Live your life like it matters. Live your life like everyone's life matters. Let us concentrate on the beauty and the wonder of this world and not let the dark overwhelm us.

I would have liked this journal to have been about my recent trip to Italy but I have returned to all this instead. 
I had a great time in Italy. My hotel was excellent and the people there were very friendly. I made some really good friends while I was there who I will see again I'm sure. 
The places I visited were extraordinary. This was not a landscape photography trip but an archeological one. Paestum is a lovely place with three Greek Temples in an old Roman city. Pompeii is vast. To walk down the same streets that the Romans gives you a real connection to the past. The fact that the town was buried by the volcanic ash has, infact, preserved so much that would have been lost. We have all learned so much we could never have learned otherwise. The same can be said of Herculaneum. You feel like the town should be full of ghosts. On the final day I went to the top of Mount Vesuvius and looked over the Bay Of Naples. It was wonderful. I am sure I will go back there. The whole week was so good in every respect. 

I thank you if you have read this far. I appreciate it. :heart: Now it is time for me to show the world what amazing people you all are. To show the love you have for the world and each other by creating the beautiful art that you create. This is a quite large feature as I feel the need to include as many of you as I can on this day of all days. I send you all a big hug :huggle: and wish that I could do it in person. If the world was full of you people and people just like you it would surely be a better place. My love to you all :hug: :heart:

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Thank you so much for making all this amazing art. It always makes me feel better to look at all these pictures. There is so much that is good in this world and so much beauty we must never lose sight of that however much others might want us to. 
Please let these artists know if they have created something you like. It will mean something to them if you could drop them a line. Thank you so much.
Keep spreading beauty and love and hope in this world of ours. I send you hugs and my love. :heart: :hug: Send everyone a hug today :hug: 

Lawrence  :heart:
 
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TeaPhotography's avatar
Thank you dear sweet friend... :heart: not just cause you included me, but because of this message that we need so very badly! You nailed it, and it's to bad we still need such messages so much, but we will keep on keeping on, until violence ever begins to dissipate. :hmm: