Thinking about resilience and recovery feels good. Western civilization is confident about overcoming adversity: think positive, pick yourself up by your bootstraps and persevere. Look for the silver lining and make lemonade! This photo is from the rehabilitation center where I volunteer once a week.
I fear the huge profits being made by armaments manufacturers are an incentive for “the West” to support Ukraine just enough to keep Russia busy. Meanwhile Ukrainians are giving their limbs and lives to defend their country against an invader who acknowledges no rules.
My grandmother left Latvia on the last train out in 1944. The Soviets shot her brother in 1938, took grandfather off the street on New Year’s Eve 1940 and sent him to the gulags. Then there was the German occupation, a story in itself. Grandmother knew from experience that women do not fare well in the path of a plundering invader, and that the Russians were worse than the Germans.
She knew that her children’s future lay in getting them away.
I fear a time is coming, though, when there will be no “getting away” for any of us. Not sure how useful all those profits will be when wars have completely poisoned the world.
I fear the huge profits being made by armaments manufacturers are an incentive for “the West” to support Ukraine just enough to keep Russia busy. Meanwhile Ukrainians are giving their limbs and lives to defend their country against an invader who acknowledges no rules.
My grandmother left Latvia on the last train out in 1944. The Soviets shot her brother in 1938, took grandfather off the street on New Year’s Eve 1940 and sent him to the gulags. Then there was the German occupation, a story in itself. Grandmother knew from experience that women do not fare well in the path of a plundering invader, and that the Russians were worse than the Germans.
She knew that her children’s future lay in getting them away.
I fear a time is coming, though, when there will be no “getting away” for any of us. Not sure how useful all those profits will be when wars have completely poisoned the world.
If home is where the cat is......
the poignancy of this comment really hit home. I’m glad you got to visit Telepatia.
Take care