I can’t stop watching the news.  Whatever device is near me right now, I am watching news reports.  I share Rona’s sentiments from yesterday.  Sometimes there is nothing else that seems right to talk about.

So, here is what I am focused on this morning.  The children.  All of the children.  There has been a running report about a children’s hospital and the efforts to keep the children and their mothers safe.  This morning, they were all loaded onto a train to leave Kyiv.  Standing at the windows, their fathers and husbands wave to them from the other side of the glass.   Will they see each other again?   

Another running report is following a group of orphans as well as some American families who were in the process of adopting them. That process is now stalled.  Will they ever see each other again?

When there is a tragedy or world event, I become news obsessed.  I think it is one way I feel like I can control this tragedy is to constantly learn and try to understand what is happening.  It isn’t working this time but I think it is a reflex now.

So I keep watching and feeling heartbroken.