Electricity Outrages in Ukraine: A Thanksgiving Perspective
Today I will be going with family to join close friends at a Thanksgiving celebration in Nevada City, California. We are grateful for all the things people tend to be grateful for: family, time to spend with them, the harvest abundance (both from our friends’ farm and Trader Joe’s). I am also grateful that my family and I are out of reach of the terrorism that is being rained on my Ukrainian colleagues.
I got a message from one DreamProIT colleague: “We are fine. Just a few hours of outrages yesterday.” And then a description of all of the work he’s done despite the outrage. His answer reflects the feeling, humor and resilience of my friends and colleagues at DreamProIT. Anger at the senselessness and inhumanity of Russian terrorism. And still finding a way through. Another colleague spent much of yesterday going from grocery store to grocery store to find bread. She chronicled her search with both rage and humor, and in the end– as I knew she would – she found it. A third colleague, in Canada, has been helping relatives find and pay for power banks to keep the lights on.
This Thanksgiving, I am grateful for these friendships. Grateful to carry the word about them to anyone who will listen. And grateful that one day soon, Ukraine will triumph, as they have before, and can focus on work, family, friends and the normal challenges of daily life.
In your Thanksgiving celebrations, think about the people in Ukraine and do whatever is in your reach to help them succeed.