The current Ukraine crisis...

[YinYang]

Sometimes, I find myself being drawn more (not less) into separation ... into a place where there are boundaries and categories - when I get too deep into any narrative.

Me too. (I would have considered it rude not to respond to a post in response to one of mine.)

I'm a very curious person, always gathering details and trying to make sense of things (including geopolitics, to my detriment). But on a planet like this one it can very easily result in feelings of "separation" and resentment. I always pull back in the end when I realise the foolishness of it.

This is why we iterate quite often, when asked for specific information, that it pales to insignificance, just as the grass withers and dies while the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator redounds to the very infinite realms of creation forever and ever, creating and creating itself in perpetuity.

And that's the feeling of lightness that I woke up with this morning. These conspiracy theories and propaganda wars surrounding this invasion no longer interest me.

It is quite preposterous to make a claim 'I think we can all agree' about much of anything.

Come to think of it, you're right. In this upside-down world of ours, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if a plethora of people would argue for Russia being a liberal democracy. In the same way that no amount of evidence to the contrary could convince a flat-Earther otherwise. I will just be the voice for the hundreds of killed journalists (and those are only the ones we know about)...

This is like holding the discussion as hostage until the book is read which is in general no small task.

And in the spirit of "everything Russia" at the moment, I'm sharing yet another book, the bookworm that I am! 

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov