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Carol Morrison Straforini's avatar

Thank you. Robert Hubbell, who writes an excellent newsletter and sometimes quotes you wrote yesterday on September 11, that his eldest granddaughter was born on September 11 two years ago and he also now responds to the date as a sign of hope for the future. My first day in Italy ever was a beautiful May afternoon on the magically peaceful Lago di Lugano. I have a photograph. I learned and understood later that at that moment anti-Mafia Judge Giovanni Falcone and his wife were blown up on his weekly trip to visit his mother in Sicily. Two Italys, both real, two September 11 both real.

I'm taking your marriage--and your sharing it--as a reminder of how in the midst of all that is 2022, how important it is to honor, enjoy, and live fully our personal lives, both profoundly and in small ways. Please continue to seize these days and let's all remember to have fun.

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Cheryl P.'s avatar

Someone commenting on a WaPo article said Putin was sending in his second-stringer soldiers; saving the well trained ones for a big assault TBD. Don't think so.

If he's conscripting prisoners he's already scraping the bottom of the barrel. They have no deeply held convictions to fight.

The latest secret weapon? Ukrainian women are cooking a hot meal for these kids and listening, really listening to their stories. These young soldiers are abandoning their posts; throwing down their weapons, stealing civilian clothes and bicycles, and blending in with the civilians. Never underestimate the power of a hot bowl of soup and a kindly grandmother.

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