hi. so, my mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer recently after a trip to the ER that ended up with her being admitted to the hospital for several days. technically, we're waiting on the results of the biopsy; in practice, everyone responsible for her care has made it clear what to expect.

What is even there to say? I can't keep waking up in a world where I read the news and I see schoolchildren bombed, millions of people displaced, old ladies carrying their cats and while their houses get turned into rubble, the waste of industry and human talent into bombs that shoot down other bombs.

Even the most just war of liberation is painful and regrettable, but you well know I'm not talking about that, we're watching first world countries sell weapons to feed endless war and just bombing targets like if it's a reflex act just what they do, the complete surrender of any hope of building a better world or coexisting and we're all treating this like it's just the natural state of things.