“Now what would a guy with everything in the world do with one of those?”
Good question, coming from a homeless combat veteran suffering from nightmares and flashbacks, in response to Garibaldi’s suggestion that he knows some good therapists. Just before that, Garibaldi tells a young security officer that he knows this “lurker” served in the infantry because, while watching the homeless “lurker” having a nightmare, he tells the young security officer that
“I’ve had that same dream.”
Hence, as the Minbari often reminds us, history matters. And so does health care.
Nih sakh sh’lekk, sleem wa.
–
Last week;
This was the 5th episode of Season 2, of Ranger Mayann’s letter on the history of the Babylon Project.
Next week…
-Shira Destinie
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Nih sakh sh’lekk, sleem wa. and my Babylon 5 review posts, if you like Science Fiction, and a proposed Vision on Wondering Wednesdays: for a kinder world…
Shira Destinie A. Jones, BsC, MAT, MPhil
our year 2021 CE = 12021 HE
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Stayed on Freedom’s Call
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includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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Thank you, Ned.
Hopefully this episode helps us recall the importance of access to mental health care here on earth.
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When did the Shadows awaken? I wonder.
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I think that the shadows are always awake in all of us, waiting to be nourished or faced down.
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Spiritually, yes. In-universe, at least a decade before the setting of that episode.
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As to the Shadows of B5, it seems that the mission to Zahad’um by Anna Sheridan’s ship, sent by IPX, 5 years earlier, awakened them.
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Yet they seem to have been stirring during the Earth-Minbari War.
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Correct.
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Good point, I’d forgotten that: if this one attacked them on the way to Zahad’um during the Earth-Minbari war, then the Shadows must have already begun to stir back then.
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