barefeet on concrete

There is so much too learn as we walk through life. I want to feel new sensations and experience this ground I walk with bare feet. I want to feel every pebble in the road as well as the slippery wet pavement. These are the experiences that make life.

At the moment, I am living within a city of concrete. Yet, my feet always tends to find the grass growing between the cracks. This is a blog that captures these new finds.

latimes: Before 9/11, Pakistan had only one suicide bombing. Since then, it’s had 290, killing at least 4,600 people. Pakistanis seem to be accustomed to the violence. A decade ago, Peshawar’s bomb squad had it pretty easy. Occasionally, one of its 20 members would be dispatched to a cornfield to defuse a mine planted by a villager who was feuding with his neighbor. Bombs were small and crude; the only tools an officer needed were pliers and a roll of electrical tape. Because their budget was minuscule, the officers traveled by taxi. Today, the squad careens through week after week of carnage and peril in this volatile city near the Afghan border. One day members are defusing a partially detonated explosive vest strapped to the torso of a dead militant, the next they are surveying evidence left behind by a teenage suicide bomber. The squad has grown to 113 members. Nine have died in the line of duty. At least five others have been maimed. Photo: A boy talks to a young victim of a suicide bombing at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan. Credit: Arshad Butt / Associated Press

latimes:

Before 9/11, Pakistan had only one suicide bombing. Since then, it’s had 290, killing at least 4,600 people. Pakistanis seem to be accustomed to the violence.

A decade ago, Peshawar’s bomb squad had it pretty easy.

Occasionally, one of its 20 members would be dispatched to a cornfield to defuse a mine planted by a villager who was feuding with his neighbor. Bombs were small and crude; the only tools an officer needed were pliers and a roll of electrical tape.

Because their budget was minuscule, the officers traveled by taxi.

Today, the squad careens through week after week of carnage and peril in this volatile city near the Afghan border. One day members are defusing a partially detonated explosive vest strapped to the torso of a dead militant, the next they are surveying evidence left behind by a teenage suicide bomber. The squad has grown to 113 members. Nine have died in the line of duty. At least five others have been maimed.

Photo: A boy talks to a young victim of a suicide bombing at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan. Credit: Arshad Butt / Associated Press

(Source: Los Angeles Times)