Middle East

They have a very serious tradition of having a handshake stand as a symbol of eternal friendship. It's not just some casual greeting to them.

I have friends there that I have now lost track of and worry about every day. I was fortunate to make them during my work on helping to make the campaign to save Mes Aynak go viral.

I literally fear some of them may be dead now. I miss our sweet chats and learning about their amazing recipes.

Life can be so horrible sometimes.

Women and children, always last is more real than the other way around. What happened to that belief?

I really don't believe that the old social maxim which states the reverse, "women and children first" was ever really anything more than for show from its inception.

We haven't even started to see the famine we will have as a result of our climate emergency. We really need to get serious about what's ahead in this realm.

So much suffering.



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