Saturday, April 2, 2022

Existential Refuge

TOPSHOT-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CONFLICT

 We are by our very nature gregarious

seeking comfort and security in the

company of others like ourselves. The tribal

instinct born of nature's gift to humanity

to endure and find survival among others

sharing an environment conducive to

evading threats in the power of numbers.

Just as a child shrinks from the presence

of an unfamiliar face, vulnerable in an

unfamiliar place we take consolation in the

familiar. Our homes and communities

there to assuage uncertainties. Nightmares

consist of displacement, the unfamiliar

where threats arise. The trauma of war

leading to homelessness and despair in

its implacable impact on civilians while

combatants wage a conflict set upon them

through the command of the powerful

brings the world of normalcy to ruin.



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