Hello Barbara,

I have heard that some very courageous Russians have protested the war. From all I understand, this is Putin's war, not the Russian people's.

This was brings to mind all of the fruitless "duck and cover" exercises I went through as a child in school. (As if a desk would save us from a bomb's impact or its fallout.) It also resurrects all of the fears I had had growing up as a Cold War child.

My heart goes out to everyone in Ukraine, as do my prayers.

We do live in scary times.