Bought a puzzle of the country of🇬🇪 before returning to the US. Went to put it together and a piece is missing. My 6 yr. old says, Russia probably took it. He has an amazing grip on the Geopolitics of the Caucus region. #futureambassador
We’ve had various house guests for the past six months. All of them refugees of one type or another as a result is the war to the north. 24/7 access to war trauma is…a lot…for this empath. #screamingintothevoid
This is my life as I look to the news of American elections and battleground states. The arguments and vitriol. It all seems pretty small and petty this time around.
I don’t know where to post this but this space has the fewest eyes. We have a some new friends living with us who are from the north Caucuses. They are living with us to avoid being sent into the Ukrainian invasion. Tonight one young man decided he had to return to his family
He has a wife and 3 mo. old daughter. For him it is worth the risk. I also meet with some Iranian refugees each week. Their home is in turmoil. They pray women’s rights and freedom from religious extremism so that these brothers can return and live out their faith & ministry.
Any historians able to fill me in on the legendary quality of Ottoman wet wipes and the effects it has on Europe, N. Africa and the Middle East. I can’t find it in Wikipedia.
There is nothing like peak melon 🍉 season to remind you of how much flavor we have lost in our globalization of the fruit industry. Local in-season eating is amazing. 10/10 would recommended.
The echo chambers built in and around D.C. these days make me question a lot about our world. Mostly makes me miss our multi-party system. Bring back Ross Perot… or just give me anyone to vote for that doesn’t base their position in anger and fear of the other.
We went to this castle today and after my eleven year old came out of the bathroom he walked up to me and said, “I suppose there aren’t too many people left these days that can say they took a dump in a Medieval Castle.” So. Proud.