Ukraine
I'm really struggling this morning. My empathy is cranked to 11. A video online of a father saying goodbye to his daughter as he sends her and his wife to a safe zone before he stays behind to fight put me into tears and I haven't really recovered.
This doesn't affect me directly. I could turn it off and block it all out, but I can't. I'm powerless watching this go down on the other side of the world.
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Myanmar coup turns truly bloody
I've never been to Myanmar (in fact the only place I've been in Asia is Japan) and even though I still can't turn away from the coup happening around the globe.
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Brazil is getting vaccines from China
Which is good, they need them. I was speaking with a friend in Sao Paulo yesterday and she was telling me how bad it has gotten there. They have more daily cases than we have here in the US, and we have 1.5x their population. They still aren't as bad as the US was during it's peak, but that is still a bad place for them to be.
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It's time to build: A New World's Fair
In 2015, the wife and I took a trip to Italy for our anniversary and discovered the World Expo was in Milan while we were. We went and saw it, and while it was a fun and unique adventure, Cameron's blog nails it exactly - it was entirely about promoting countries and less about science, discovery, and celebrating accomplishments.
I would love to see (both metaphorically and physically) the change and re-launch of the World's Fair as he describes and outlines.
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Secretary of State's first speech is excellent
I saw it tweeted and so I went and gave the first speech a read and it is astoundingly earnest and grounded and direct about this government's goals both domestic and foreign. Give it a read. Press isn't covering it because they are still drunk on the T-juice for four years and calm earnest politics aren't as ready headline fodder.
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Florida makes bid for Olympics if Tokyo backs out
That sounds like a terrible plan. And I say that as an Ex-Floridian.
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