? זאָג, פון אוקראינע װאס זיינט איר אװעק —
Quite apart from events on the world stage, every day this week has contained some additional stressor, of which the latest example was ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch needing to spend the day at the ER for what turned out to be diverticulitis. He is home now with antibiotics and enjoying some well-deserved soup. My ability to do very much this week beyond work has been somewhat frustrated. Someday, statistically, someone I care for or even just know socially will catch a break and it will be awesome.
In terms of ongoing resources for Ukaine, Razom seems to have the bases covered. I found myself saying elsenet that I don't think I'm old enough to blame it on the failure of historical memory, but I keep catching takes from people who seem to have forgotten that the Yugoslav Wars—Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo—even happened and it is very strange. I understand the significance of the eight-decade mark since one stable sovereign nation in Europe invaded another. But it's not as though we haven't seen sieges and airstrikes in places that didn't look sufficiently (there are not enough scare quotes in the world) foreign as to feel safely distant since then.
Courtesy of a friend who is not on DW: mir zaynen do, af Ukraynish.
spatch needing to spend the day at the ER for what turned out to be diverticulitis. He is home now with antibiotics and enjoying some well-deserved soup. My ability to do very much this week beyond work has been somewhat frustrated. Someday, statistically, someone I care for or even just know socially will catch a break and it will be awesome.In terms of ongoing resources for Ukaine, Razom seems to have the bases covered. I found myself saying elsenet that I don't think I'm old enough to blame it on the failure of historical memory, but I keep catching takes from people who seem to have forgotten that the Yugoslav Wars—Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo—even happened and it is very strange. I understand the significance of the eight-decade mark since one stable sovereign nation in Europe invaded another. But it's not as though we haven't seen sieges and airstrikes in places that didn't look sufficiently (there are not enough scare quotes in the world) foreign as to feel safely distant since then.
Courtesy of a friend who is not on DW: mir zaynen do, af Ukraynish.
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History really didn't freeze between 1939 and 1945. Not in this country, not anywhere else. I know the rhetoric that has pervaded the U.S. for the last two decades claims otherwise, and I know it doesn't help that we have authoritarians and literal Nazis all over the place, but all that other time and everything contained in it has still happened. This war would look very different without it.
Poor spatch. I enjoyed the children's art he posted from the ER though.
*hugs*