Birthday gift

what do you give someone when you aren’t making money any more?

My friend had gone to Shenandoah a couple of years ago and taken a picture she loved. She loved it so much she was going to print it, but I realized that my friend had probably never gone ahead and done it. I found it, upsized it, edited it slightly, printed it and framed it. SCORE! Indeed, she still had never gotten it printed, she loved it. I enjoyed dinner with her and her mom. 

I submitted the application for a job I really do want. It is a fellowship. Fingers crossed. 

“A convoy of trucks from Devon filled with aid for Ukraine has successfully arrived at its destination…. seven trucks headed to Poland and delivered the aid on 8 March. Mr Steward then continued the journey and was escorted to the Zaporizhia region of Ukraine to donate his vehicle to a man called Vlad, to be used for evacuating elderly and disabled people from frontline villages.” This is the 50th vehicle they’ve donated.”

“A Russian man was jailed for life by a Finnish court on Friday for war crimes committed in 2014 in eastern Ukraine, where his paramilitary group was found to have killed an injured soldier.” So at least one is facing justice. There re a bunch of other things his group did but executing an injured Ukrainian solider was the worst.


“Russia’s state-owned gas producer has been forced into a fire sale of luxury property following the collapse of its European business.


Gazprom is reportedly preparing to put its Italian palazzo-style export headquarters and other luxury properties on the market as the business scrambles for savings.”