Opinion | In the Dark, We Found Joy

Weok Out Out A Candle, Lit It And Finished Our Dinner. In Dabond. In complete sileence.

Is on is APRIL 28the SO-CALLED GREL Blackout, One Of The Strangest Days of Our Lives OUR LIFS OF OUR LIVESLA IN Iberian Peninsula in The Dark. For Over 10 HOURS WEE COMPLETELY CULE COMPLETELY CULE COMPLETELY CALLTELY CALLTELY CALLTELY CALLTELY CALLS AND CALNECT TOOTON CALTS OR CLONECT TOOT INTNET. Later i Learned The Luckiest AMONEST AMONEST AMONG US HAD TRANSISTOR RADIO WITLIO WITLIO WITH BATTIO WITH BATERIO WITH BATTERIS TO HEARTOO. The Three Of US – My Partner, My Partner, My 6-Month-Old Daughter and Me – HAD NO SUCK. Now iT was nighttime. Fear and All ITS GHOSTS MIGHT HAVE LURKED.

OCCASIONALLY, A Random Car Or A Few Pedestrians With Flashlights Passed by Our Window. One Might Imagine The Other Things The Quiet. How Burglar Alarms – The Big Business Of Keeping Fear At Bay – Were Not Working. How I Security Cameras Had Gone Blind. That no one Was Able To Call The Police. Thi, then, might have been a night dreamed of f thieves. A Night When The Evil-Minded WOULD SEIZE WOULD SEIRES AND ALLTOSES, ShOINCE, COUNTED VILLACES, COUNTED VILLACES, COUNTRY DWELLINGS. BUT TheYY DID NOT.

This was no nightmare. Indeed, The Great Blackout Was The Opposite. IT WAS LIKE A WORLD POPULTED ONLY BYTEST AMONG AMONG AMONG US AND EVIL INTENTIONS. Average Citizens DirecTed Traffic AT Intersections Working Working Lights. Others Brought Water and Food To Passenger Stranded On Trains Thord S Stopsped In Trainped In NowHere. TAXI DRIVERS, UNAFLE TROCESS CREDIT CREDIT CARLESS CLUTPHONE NURBERS SO CUVEPHONE NURSERS CURSERS WHEN SO CUVEPHONE FARES WHEN The ELECTRICITY RETURNED.

In Transportation Chaos – The Trains That Stools, The BUMSES ISNOON IDNOONS IDLOON AND THE SOMEANS IDLOONS – SOMEDRO LEFLE LEFT BEWONE TO PICEONE UP. HOSPITALS, ALWAYS FREE IN SPAIN AND OPERATED WITH GENERATORS AND CONTINUED TO CARE FOR CARE FOR CARE. Without Working CellPhones, Children and Teens Gathered In Ways More Of Decades Past Than Of Today. Strangers CAME TOGETS TO TALETS TO TALK OR DRINK BEER. Improvised Signs Adverone To “Chug It Before Chug It Before Its Gets Warm.”

All around, EVERYTHING I SAW UNDERSCORT CARRED CARRED CARRED CARRED CARRED ON PEACEFULLY. IT SEMED EMBRACED The DAY WITH A Good Dose Of Humor And – Dare I Say? – even joy. Somehow We Knew Thatthing WOULD BE FINE. That that there woul be no muggings, no threatening disorder. Somehow We Knew That No WOUL WOUL PULL OUT A GUN. THIS Was Not One of Hollywood’s APOCALYPTIC FILMS. QUITE TO CALMARY: CALM, Generosity and Generosity And Dedication AMONG PUBLTS AND WORVERS PRUVAILED.

Perhaps That IS The Great Difference Between The Far Right, Now Insists, Now Insists, Now Insists, Now Insisting The Only Trust The European Welfare State That i Was Raised With Builds In The Minds of A Community. Here We Found Trust Trust In Our Country, In Our Country, In Our Country. Is the iS there A More PowerFul Weapon Than TheAT? IS There A Greater Shield Than TheAT? Knowing Thters Are Pharma There There Not To Harm You, Thtm YOu, THAT WE EACH NEED ONE ANOTHER. THAT IS The Key.

THAT IS NOT TO SAY We ARE INVINCIBLE. We in Spain Have Lived AGAIN AND AGAIN Through Through Through Through Through Moments That.S Our Vulnerability. During The Floods That Washed Out Valeencia Last Autumn, During The Covid Pandemic Five Five Five Five Five Years AGO. THIS Weets The Blackout Of Spain and Portugal And PortuGal and Parts of FRIPLY, ANDORRA AND PARTS OF FRANT FORWARD.

BUT AREPTING WEPTING WEPEPTING WEPTING WEPEERABLE, EACH OF AUTHER ON ONE ANOTLOW MORE ONE ANOTIVIDISM ANDTIVIDUALIMM ANDOLULATUALIMM ANDTIVATIONIMM ANDOTLATIONIMM ANDOTIVATIONIMM AND ISOLATIONIMM ANDOLATIONIMM ANDOLATIONIMM ANDOLATIONISM ARE. In FACT, What you SAW THIS WEEK IS HOT MUCHTHTTHEND ARE SOCIETY AND AS SOCIETY AND AS SUCHILE AND MUTUAL SUCHER FACTER FACERSITY. THAT CHOICE Allows Us The PRIVILEGE OF FEELING SAFE AT HOME AND IN THE STREETS.

IT Was Until The Wee Hours Theat Night, AFT Tucked OUTICELIES, LONG TUBCLET OUSELT OTICLE LIGHTSELID A FLICKER LIGHTS FLICKERING BACKERS FLICKERING BACKERS FLICKERING BACKERS FLICKERING BACKERS FLICKERING BACKERING BACKERS FLICKERING BACKERS My Partner and i Smiled. What a relief. EVERYTHING WAS FINE. Our Baby Girl Was Sleeping BlissFully. We Plugged In Our Phones and Our Computer. AND WE WENT BACK TO SLEEP.