smiling

A slight, smiling child, she was waiting at a centre run by World Food Kitchens, seven of whose aid workers were killed in an Israeli air strike last April.

“It is so good to see them smiling, but this isn’t what we are supposed to be doing today. This is not why we are supposed to come together.”

“I’ve written a book,” she said, smiling and calling a chapter up on her phone.

It featured their signatures, a smiling flower and a note of thanks and congratulations.

As worshipers filed past, Tellström gave hugs and handshakes, smiling and stoic.