Nine Eleven
For all our ingenuity, where is the inventor of a device to let landmines explode before courageous Ukrainians pass over.
It is much easier to live with an illusion than with reality, . . . with a belief than with a fact.
Only the man who is able to stand alone can see reality as it is, free from the opinion of others.
The father of a 12-year-old girl who drew this antiwar picture in her elementary school art class in Russia is facing criminal charges and a potential three-year prison sentence, and his daughter has been placed temporarily in an orphanage. The Washington Post
BBC
He was just a young kid who had come back from Vietnam and he was telling me how deathly afraid he was when out on patrol at night opposing the Viet Cong . . .
The leaves seem to be hanging on a little longer this year, just to give us some colorful cheer in these dreadful times.
And there I was, in the old Bach choir again, not in the bass section but among the tenors now, singing away and reaching all the high notes.
Suedkurier
We gave so little consideration to a bolder attempt to stop Putin. We spent years pleading with him and threatened with sanctions. He scoffed at them.
He thought that Holy Mother the Church was more important than the victims who were abused in it.
They told us to look at Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch not wearing a mask, while all the other Justices are wearing theirs.Getty Images
We set the clocks back an hour last night and enjoyed the extra sleep, but the neighborhood dogs were up at their regular hour and were whining and barking for relief.
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