One of the most important things we do as human beings, as witnesses, as people who care, is to ask questions and to bear witness. Being in a country at war requires a kind of seeing that is deeper than observation. You see the surface of life, but you also feel the layers, beneath it layers of fear, resilience, [...]

Today we went to the defenders cemetery. We brought flowers to lay on some of the graves. There were 1000s! It is impossible to put into words the heartbreak of standing among those 1000s of graves, row after row of Ukraine’s defenders. So many were young men, barely adults, some only eighteen. Others in their 20’s, [...]