"And bombs bursting in air:" a weekend of unusual mortal danger for my family. UPDATED.

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40. tangential feelings re where your nephew was...

I'm a NYC'r all my life. I love cities, and visited some US favorites. Also Paris through a relative's surprise gift!

Have dear relatives in near by medium - big size towns. Travels across the USA into the deep high desert of Arizona, and via motorcycle (a cousin) high up into The Rockies!

With this all (other than now that I think if it in Hopiland '79, not your typical kind of village) to share the context of most of my life's where I live, and visited experiences - I've never been to a village otherwise, until I was invited to visit my aunt & uncle home to make art w her in a small western, a third way up village in Switzerland in '16.

Pop. around 800+ . So, yeah, thinking of your nephew near to that Ukrainian village it would have been about a third of my relatives' village's people dead, should such terror ever rain upon them. A touch of visceral imagination.

Glad he, and your others are safe.