Allow yourself to be awestruck every time you write, the letters are stitched together into a love letter,

a declaration, a command, or a poem that becomes your mark on the world even if nobody else gets to see it.

Let it simply be a polite, potent request to obliterate the fog that tricks you into numbness.

Let your tears drip onto your page as your words move your grief like a river
– let your words carry you like a leaf on the water. If you are feeling powerless, hopeless –
that you should be doing more for Ukraine, for your family, for yourself
let your words be the sword, the olive branch, the medicine for your soul.