breaded

How battered, so to speak, can one be, that when hope shows up, one is distrusting appearance even more?

What way of conduct is that when one plays "this is what it has always been", thinks "how long before it strikes again", and yet hopes "this is the day when everything finally comes together"?

How to keep to hope, be prepared for the cinical prediction, and yet be serene?

Is someone going to have a certain physiological thing in a few days time?

tragedy

Tonight, there's been an explosion at the NICU of one of the maternity clinics here. Three newborns dead, four with 70-80% of the skin burnt, four with "only" 30 to 50%. They have trouble identifying the babies; the bracelets are also burnt.

God bless them!

http://www.romanialibera.ro/actualitate/eveniment/incendiu-la-maternitatea-giulesti-3-bebelusi-au-murit-8-sunt-raniti-grav-196648.html

ETA: One week later; one of the babies died the following night, and another one a few nights later. There are six left to fight out of the eleven that were in the NICU at the time of the fire. All of them prematures, ranging from two pounds to five pounds. Two sets of twins, two boys and then a boy and a girl. The clinic is a national center for medically assisted human reproduction. Search for Adriana Iliescu.

They showed on TV a lot of things. The most striking one for me was a new father loading not a carseat in the backseat, but a tiny coffin he was holding under his arm, like a newspaper, in the carboot.

The sand merchant

I haven't found what I was looking for, but I found something else.

See, every now and then this shell I'm living in is giving me some threats. One way or another, it says "You, up there, slow down or else!" And I shudder and think "What else?". Well, of course, the pump.

So I'm facing some boring procedures, one sometime this autumn, the other one in the spring. What I like the most about the second one is that it's some sort of plastic surgery, thank you very much. Plastic surgery, my dear, she will be naive again!

Otherwise, not much. I'm sanding the rails of the crib to build some nightstands. I've got help!