お盆。ご先祖さまの時間。
Obon. Time of the Ancestors.
What would they say to us if they could speak through the veil?
What would they whisper into our dreams?
Who are we compared to them?
Having these thoughts as the Summer Season wanes.
Considering my Great Grandma Winifred.
What kind of world did she live in?
Franz Ferdinand was shot and the world descended into “The Great War” - as if there’s anything “great” about a war. Apart from it being a GREAT waste of time and human life.
WWI. 1914-1919. The “Spanish” flu. 1920. The “Roaring” Twenties. The “Great” Depression. 1930. The Rise of Fascism. The “Third” Reich. Genocide. 1940. WWII. The Atomic Bomb. 1950. Capitalism vs Communism.
And that’s just a slice of what she witnessed and lived through.
For what it’s worth, I’m listening, Great Grandma. Some of us are, at least.