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The Horrors of the Ukrainian People

It’s been very difficult to bear witness to the heartbreaking atrocities taking place in the Ukraine. The images, the videos, the interviews — all of it.

It’s also been very difficult, as someone with a graduate degree in Humanities to both see and feel all of this — “Humanity” turned on its head and lives lost.

Yesterday, I wrote about how having a beautiful day this past Saturday helped to renew my faith in humankind, but that is also tempered with the very real fact of what is occurring on a daily basis now, in the Ukraine. It makes me feel helpless to “do more” — it also instills a sense of guilt in me, too: “How can I be experiencing a day of happiness when I know that others who are equally deserving of happiness are being slaughtered for absolutely no reason at all?”

I’ve always had this life long battle between my head and my heart — meaning this: I can totally know and believe something to be true rationally and logically in my head, but in my heart…oh, but in my heart, it is an entirely different story for me — it is often this imbalance that has caused me great pain throughout my life — trying to get my head and heart in alignment.

Two of the writers that I follow on here — Umair Haque and Jessica Wildfire have written so eloquently and with such great clarity about the situation in the Ukraine that I feel woefully inadequate to add anything substantial to what has already been said. WHY is this…