酷我-北美枫

[星子]

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I like to listen to the audio book "Dispatches from the edge [a memoir of war, disasters, and survival]" while I drive to office. I havn't finished the whole book yet.
But it touches the depth of my heart. Cooper presents a different world which many westerners thought cruel and cold,
with Cooper's witness it is a blooded reality with hanging of life and death.
As he mentioned, we live in another world, not hearing the crying of hunger and death. We live in our plan for future, not knowing them without any plan for tomorrow since they never know if tomorrow they will still be alive.

He met a few youths gathered in a bar, some of them were female with make-ups. They told him, because they wanted to die in beauty since they don't know if they could survive today.

Sometimes, I wonder how Cooper survives by all those facts and truth from another world . . .

How could we be more stonger when lacking faith in future?
I wonder if we, human are like ants?


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Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life.

After growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Cooper felt a magnetic pull toward the unknown, an attraction to the far corners of the earth. If he could keep moving, and keep exploring, he felt he could stay one step ahead of his past, including the fame surrounding his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, and the tragic early deaths of his father and older brother. As a reporter, the frenetic pace of filing dispatches from war-torn countries, and the danger that came with it, helped him avoid having to look too closely at the pain and loss that was right in front of him.

But recently, during the course of one extraordinary, tumultuous year, it became impossible for him to continue to separate his work from his life, his family's troubled history from the suffering people he met all over the world. From the tsunami in Sri Lanka to the war in Iraq to the starvation in Niger and ultimately to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi, Cooper gives us a firsthand glimpse of the devastation that takes place, both physically and emotionally, when the normal order of things is violently ruptured on such a massive scale. Cooper had been in his share of life-threatening situations before—ducking fire on the streets of war-torn Sarejevo, traveling on his own to famine-stricken Somalia, witnessing firsthand the genocide in Rwanda—but he had never seen human misery quite like this. Writing with vivid memories of his childhood and early career as a roving correspondent, Cooper reveals for the first time how deeply affected he has been by the wars, disasters and tragedies he has witnessed, and why he continues to be drawn to some of the most perilous places on earth.
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[[ANNA]]

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I like to listen to the audio book "Dispatches from the edge [a memoir of war, disasters, and survival]" while I drive to office. I havn't finished the whole book yet.
But it touches the depth of my heart. Cooper presents a different world which many westerners thought cruel and cold,
with Cooper's witness it is a blooded reality with hanging of life and death.
As he mentioned, we live in another world, not hearing the crying of hunger and death. We live in our plan for future, not knowing them without any plan for tomorrow since they never know if tomorrow they will still be alive.

He met a few youths gathered in a bar, some of them were female with make-ups. They told him, because they wanted to die in beauty since they don't know if they could survive today.

Sometimes, I wonder how Cooper survives by all those facts and truth from another world . . .

How could we be more stonger when lacking faith in future?
I wonder if we, human are like ants?


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Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life.

After growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Cooper felt a magnetic pull toward the unknown, an attraction to the far corners of the earth. If he could keep moving, and keep exploring, he felt he could stay one step ahead of his past, including the fame surrounding his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, and the tragic early deaths of his father and older brother. As a reporter, the frenetic pace of filing dispatches from war-torn countries, and the danger that came with it, helped him avoid having to look too closely at the pain and loss that was right in front of him.

But recently, during the course of one extraordinary, tumultuous year, it became impossible for him to continue to separate his work from his life, his family's troubled history from the suffering people he met all over the world. From the tsunami in Sri Lanka to the war in Iraq to the starvation in Niger and ultimately to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi, Cooper gives us a firsthand glimpse of the devastation that takes place, both physically and emotionally, when the normal order of things is violently ruptured on such a massive scale. Cooper had been in his share of life-threatening situations before—ducking fire on the streets of war-torn Sarejevo, traveling on his own to famine-stricken Somalia, witnessing firsthand the genocide in Rwanda—but he had never seen human misery quite like this. Writing with vivid memories of his childhood and early career as a roving correspondent, Cooper reveals for the first time how deeply affected he has been by the wars, disasters and tragedies he has witnessed, and why he continues to be drawn to some of the most perilous places on earth.
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[星子]

Two years ago, I read the book "Left to Tell".
The author asked when the genocide happened in Rwanda, why no country (USA, England, France) tried to stop it.
Sometimes, the death brought by the human's evil plan is much worse than the nature.

People living in the war, surrounding by suicide-bomb, drag their life day by day.
Somehow, I do believe one day we all have an end. The earth does too.
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[[ANNA]]

Two years ago, I read the book "Left to Tell".
The author asked when the genocide happened in Rwanda, why no country (USA, England, France) tried to stop it.
Sometimes, the death brought by the human's evil plan is much worse than the nature.

People living in the war, surrounding by suicide-bomb, drag their life day by day.
Somehow, I do believe one day we all have an end. The earth does too.
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[温暖的水獸]

[[温暖的水獸]]

[anna]

温暖的水獸,

I haven't watched his news show.

I listened to his autograph audio book. He seems to be very candid and calm. There are troubles and traumas in his life too, he unconsciously hid them. But when he entered to the war zone or other disasters, he finally could face his own shadow.
There are many kinds of people in the world, many of them don’t know themselves.
Like copper, he didn’t know him and his family too.
But when you discover your inner world, then you know the world is much bigger and peaceful there.

I like the book because it deals a lot of facts and reality.

Copper repeated many times, we live, they die, we can drive away, and they have to drag their life.
In Toastmaster club, I heard many speech made by people from war zone. They left everything behind, came here for freedom, for peace, for better life.
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

温暖的水獸,

I haven't watched his news show.

I listened to his autograph audio book. He seems to be very candid and calm. There are troubles and traumas in his life too, he unconsciously hid them. But when he entered to the war zone or other disasters, he finally could face his own shadow.
There are many kinds of people in the world, many of them don’t know themselves.
Like copper, he didn’t know him and his family too.
But when you discover your inner world, then you know the world is much bigger and peaceful there.

I like the book because it deals a lot of facts and reality.

Copper repeated many times, we live, they die, we can drive away, and they have to drag their life.
In Toastmaster club, I heard many speech made by people from war zone. They left everything behind, came here for freedom, for peace, for better life.
_________________
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com