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Introspections

Day 18, say it out loud, eighteen of the War in Ukaine.

It's misty-moisty, kinda-cloudy, cold in Western Montana; but sunny and 68°F in Las Vegas where Prosperous Snow celebrating and Lyn's a Witchy Woman reside. Partly cloudy and 47°F in Newark-on-Trent scarlett_o_h. It's forecast to reach 83° later today (Monday) in Harare, Zimbabwe zwisis and 93° in Bengaluru, Karnakata, India THANKFUL SONALI Library Class! and a pleasant 81° in Perth, Australia Sumojo. Winnipeg however... 16°F. DoXx, The Renegade Monkey and Brother Nature can relate.

Apparently GERVIC will look out the hospital window at a warm wet day in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines while he recovers from covid. He's 30. As he has said, "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

If you haunt WDC you have an opportunity to make friends around the world.

But... Ukraine... do we have any members from there or living there? Yes, I've met Ukainians and have known Ukrainian Americans since childhood; but, right now? I wonder about the young men I met at a hostel in Sofia, Bulgaria. 3 out of 4 are the perfect age for cannon fodder. We aren't connected on facebook, but if we were...

It's 28°F and light snow falling on the dead and soon-to-be dead in Kyiv.



"Make us as waves of the sea, as flowers of the garden, united, agreed through the bounties of Thy love...

...make all mankind as stars shining from the same height of glory, as perfect fruits growing upon Thy tree of life"

—‘Abdu’l-Bahá

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