Foto van 11 Maart, Spanje, Europa

Candles under the tracks at El Pozo station, Madrid

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Impressive spontaneous memorials mark the sites where cowardish terrorist attacks claimed hundreds of lives and thousands of wounded.
Most impressive perhaps were the drawings made by schoolchildren, unable to understand (but then again, who is able to understand?), in memory of a lost school mate. I traveled back to Atocha, found the memorial site there, many more people. Everyone trying to light candles that had been extinguished by the rain and the wind, reading, crying, or just staring to a point far away in the grey skies over this vibrant city, thinking about the implications, about the relativity of life and death, about how we all live on the border between them.
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