https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/opinion/ukraine-war-putin.html
"While visiting Kyiv last week, my first trip to Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s
invasion in February 2022, I tried to get my exercise every morning by walking
the grounds of St. Michael’s Golden Domed Monastery. Its serenity, though, has
been disrupted by a jarring exhibit of destroyed Russian tanks and armored
personnel carriers. During my walks, I’d poke my head into these jagged,
rocket-pierced hulks, wondering what terrible death must have come to the
Russian soldiers operating them.
But the shock of this tangled mass of rusting steel, sitting in the middle of
this grand, whitish-stone piazza, evoked a different image in my mind’s eye: a
meteor.
It looked as if a giant meteor had plummeted from space, disrupting life as we
knew it — nearly eight decades without a “great power” war in Europe, a
continent where centuries of invasions and conquest had given way to security
and prosperity. Now we have this ugly pile sitting here in our midst,
smoldering, and we, both Ukrainians and the world community, are struggling
with how to deal with it."
Via
What Could Go Right? September 21, 2023:
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https://theprogressnetwork.org/gen-z-wellbeing-mental-health-optimism-future/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
