More than a week of 2013 has gone by already.  Yet why do I feel as if the world’s moving backwards instead of forwards?  It’s as if we’ve gone back beyond the Dark Ages; as if we’re in the year 1013.  Belfast is ablaze night after night because two branches of the same religion can’t agree about a flag.  I know that’s perhaps over-simplifying and that there are history and politics in play here and not just religion but as someone who’s spiritual but not religious I can’t understand this for the life of me. 

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