‘Abu Ward − whose name means “father of the flowers” − nurtured and tended to the plants that flourished under his care even as Aleppo and its inhabitants continued to die around them. “My place is worth billions of dollars” he told a video journalist for NBC News. “I own the world! We ordinary people own the whole world!” he said with a smile.
Six weeks after the filming of the NBC News video, Abu Ward was killed instantly by a bomb dropped near the living oasis he had refused to abandon.
The garden center is now closed and the beacon of light and hope that used to emanate from it has now been covered by the same shroud of death that has covered so many in this dying city.
Young Ibrahim has been devastated by the loss of his father and has no idea what he will do now…’
R. Sikora, Orient Net, 29.08.2016
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
About Dick Jones
I'm a post-retirement Drama teacher, currently working part-time. I have a grown-up son and daughter, three grandchildren and three young children from my second marriage. I write - principally poetry but prose too, both fitfully published. My poetry collection Ancient Lights is published by Phoenicia Publishing (www.phoeniciapublishing.com) and my translation of Blaise Cendrars' 'Trans-Siberian Prosody and Little Jeanne from France' (illustrated by my friend, the artist, writer and long-time blogger Natalie d'Arbeloff) is published by Old Stile Press (www.oldstilepress.com).
I play bass guitar & bouzouki in the song-based acoustic/electric trio Moorby Jones, playing entirely original material.
https://www.facebook.com/moorbyjones?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
http://www.moorbyjones.net/)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MOORBY+JONES
spotify:artist:07MDD5MK9MnRGSEZwbsas9
I have a dormant blog with posts going back to 2004 at Dick Jones' Patteran Pages - http://patteran.typepad.com - and I'm a radio ham. My callsign is G0EUV
sisyphus 