On borders, walls and……Bridges

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We’re living in strange times with powerful nations fighting to expand borders and elsewhere oppressed people try to emigrate to democratic nations but encounter fences intended to keep them out.

I came upon a delightful quotation by Naples-born, Rome-resident, Italian manual laborer turned writer, journalist, screen writer, poet and translator Erri De Luca, and it embraces the beauty and underlying concept of bridges:

“The bridge is the only building structure that is generous and cordiale (social / neighborly). Instead of dividing, it unites, connects, and spans over rivalry”.