Inspired by the ‘chain of Solidarity’ in neighboring Belarus the Russian women found their way around the restrictions of mass protests this weekend. They gathered in home gardens lighting candles, placing them in hearts, and they stood, joined together by white ribbons in lines along the streets and around the government buildings in Moscow’s city squares. In homage to Navalnaya, Alexei’s wife, they wore red scarves and hats and carried red roses and red and black paper hearts. They were freezing cold but standing firm.

Inspired by the ‘chain of Solidarity’ in neighboring Belarus the Russian women found their way around the restrictions of mass protests this weekend. They gathered in home gardens lighting candles, placing them in hearts, and they stood, joined together by white ribbons in lines along the streets and around the government buildings in Moscow’s city squares. In homage to Navalnaya, Alexei’s wife, they wore red scarves and hats and carried red roses and red and black paper hearts. They were freezing cold but standing firm.

Meanwhile throughout England the snow keeps falling, though in London it is unsure how to land – as snow flakes or rain drops. The wind chill is keeping the temperatures low, the snow in flurries and ministers hurrying from their cars to Westminster or their Zoom-rooms where attention is all turned inward to the Covid virus, its variants and the vaccines.

Meanwhile throughout England the snow keeps falling, though in London it is unsure how to land – as snow flakes or rain drops. The wind chill is keeping the temperatures low, the snow in flurries and ministers hurrying from their cars to Westminster or their Zoom-rooms where attention is all turned inward to the Covid virus, its variants and the vaccines.

Today I am thinking about an anesthesiologist’s story of his first two intubations, back to back, on young women bedded in the same unit, both mothers with young families to care for. He writes of the panic in their eyes and in his heart and the moment when he has to switch from compassion to competent – and carry on.

Today I am thinking about an anesthesiologist’s story of his first two intubations, back to back, on young women bedded in the same unit, both mothers with young families to care for. He writes of the panic in their eyes and in his heart and the moment when he has to switch from compassion to competent – and carry on.

But today as the UK death toll from Corona virus tops 100,000, there leaks news of petty behavior from Boris Johnson to João Vale de Almeida the ambassador sent to represent the European Union in England. This rolls back to past behaviors and slights between brief-cased men and women over the last painful years of the Brexit negotiations and now rumbles on into questions of who holds how many doses of which vaccine, manufactured and stored in which country, and who is going to share, what, when.

But today as the UK death toll from Corona virus tops 100,000, there leaks news of petty behavior from Boris Johnson to João Vale de Almeida the ambassador sent to represent the European Union in England. This rolls back to past behaviors and slights between brief-cased men and women over the last painful years of the Brexit negotiations and now rumbles on into questions of who holds how many doses of which vaccine, manufactured and stored in which country, and who is going to share, what, when.

On Wednesday, as this program airs on WWMR.org the United States is inaugurating Joe Biden as their 46th president and with that act completed the United States and the world stage will change and a new act begins. While Putin may shrug off concern for world opinion the question still remains, ‘What to do with this constant festering thorn in his side'.

On Wednesday, as this program airs on WWMR.org the United States is inaugurating Joe Biden as their 46th president and with that act completed the United States and the world stage will change and a new act begins. While Putin may shrug off concern for world opinion the question still remains, ‘What to do with this constant festering thorn in his side'.