Rui, When we wake up one day, this will have just been a bad dream

  In the Iliad, Cassandra, for rejecting Apollo, received the gift of seeing the future, which was a punishment because no one took her prophecies seriously: Cassandra: Why vainly dost thou torture me, Apollo?Who, when thou lent me power of prophecy,Gav’st to my words no weight! Unto the windsFly all my prophecies, gaining with menCredence … More Rui, When we wake up one day, this will have just been a bad dream

“Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”

Tonight, staring at my Facebook page and feeling despair, squeezed between the power of two national states to oppress and paralyze, my loneliness and demons of my son’s abduction hounding, the ghosts of my tormentors, the abductors of my son, hovering  like Jacob’s angel,  taunting my courage  and the moral obligations and demands of love, … More “Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”

New Oxymoron: “Japanese Reform” – Interpret With Care

The subject is child abduction. The discussion is about slothfully slow, eventual accession to the Hague Convention and civil code reform will take place: Japan will continue to protect kidnappers, practice abduction internally by denying parents access to their own children,  and hold out for reservations –  conditions and exceptions for refusal to return kidnapped … More New Oxymoron: “Japanese Reform” – Interpret With Care