One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series….
For many years your scribe would spend a quiet afternoon on every second Sunday writing letters…yes writing and yes letters. I would write about the most ordinary things to recipients that I didn’t know and would never meet. I wrote letters about my garden and my work a day world and my friends which after a page or two of writing would have appeared to be a most mundane existence. Unless of course you are a prisoner of conscience or a political prisoner with no prospect of visitors or contact with anyone but with the hope of someone looking after your back, like Amnesty International. My letters were not only to give hope but they were also to show that someone out there actually cared.
For years my letters through AI went anonymously to prisons and concentration camps across the globe to people that were incarcerated for no reason for their political beliefs. AI is truly committed to defending those who are denied justice or freedom with a vision of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards
In today’s world of course we can twitter and we can blog and we can take all sorts of action on line or in the streets. I often wonder what ever happened to my letters and where they went…..perhaps to a conscientious objector, a political dissident or a political prisoner stuck in a Gulag somewhere. The thought of being incarcerated without trial or tortured for your beliefs lead me to try and give just a little hope for someone somewhere.
Today’s links are Amnesty Links that a close political commentator friend gave me many years ago…if you have the time try and do a little something for someone, somewhere….it all helps. The links are worn with a cotton Simon Carter of London
Nelson Mandela in 1962……released in 1990.
Til Later
ONWARD
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