I'm thankful to be sharing a forum like CoSo on days like these: a place with people who always remember to hold space for the fact that war is suffering.
Never glorious.
Never righteous, no matter how inevitable a breakout might seem.
Never a situation with "winners", either: only those who survive, and the world they will forge out of trauma in the aftermath.
May our humanity survive.
May we remember that *this* is the aim.
And yes, I'll be writing something more formally, to post tomorrow:
About what to watch for in the gamification of war news.
About the instant weaponization of religion, in many forms, that arises at times like this.
About our declining capacity to value human life, in a world inundated by wartime propaganda.
But for now I'm going to the market.
Buying ingredients for lunch with a friend.
And unless you can call a ceasefire yourself, please remember to step away from the screens today, too.
@MLClark
Amen sister. The worst is already surfacing.