In the middle of cities I love finding quiet corners where time seems to have stopped. In Brisbane, where so much has changed from my childhood, ANZAC Square and the Shrine of Remembrance with its Eternal Flame always draws me back.
Whether I’m walking through it on the way from the bus stop late at night after visiting Mum or striding through it in the early morning dawn before I start work, I always find my feet slowing, my mind settling.
The flood of people, spilling from the underpasses to the nearby train station, flows to the neighbouring steel and glass buildings. Those buildings should dwarf the old shrine but somehow they don’t.
Not fun
A dreadful day for Norway, Cathy. And Vietnam?? That must have been very tough…
And now the news of Norway, will we ever learn. I did the bloody Vietnam thing!
Thanks Sandy, and if there’s no happy post then there will be new adventures to be had 🙂
Oh Lord, Helene, I wish. But humans just can’t seem to play together nicely. 🙁
Hope you got a happy post coming 🙂
Indeed, Sandy!
Cathy, I can’t go to the War Memorial in Canberra because those long lists of names reduce to me to tears.
Apparently this memorial in Brisbane has 18 columns because peace was signed in 1918. It would be lovely if we learnt some of the lessons from earlier wars…
That round memorial style is also used at our WW1 memorial in Kew. It was and to some extent still is a large and welathy Jewish area, so this style was selected as appropriate. The said thing is how many names there are on it )(including 8 nurses) Kew was an outlying village at the time…….
Some folk can just appreciate beauty in whatever form it comes, Helene. 🙂