Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for January 16, 2023

Never give up. Never surrender.

Metaphor for Ukraine?

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield." Lao Tzu

This was bloody

He learned a lot after Gallipoli.

Must have been fun to draw. Good story/message.

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender”

“…You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination. But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period — I am addressing myself to the School — surely from this period of ten months this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. We stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed, we were finished. All this tradition of ours, our songs, our School history, this part of the history of this country, were gone and finished and liquidated….”

Winston Churchill

October 29, 1941

Harrow School