Dear Janel:

You are welcome, Janel (do you remember your screen name in your old thread, and about the month and year where you last posted there? Maybe I can find your old thread).

Your life has been very much directly affected by Covid deaths, being that working in healthcare, you lost many patients and colleagues to Covid. “most of my friends and colleagues were absolutely freaking out when COVID emerged. And the war has been going on for months. Why aren’t more people terrified???“- if your friends also work in healthcare (I.S.?),  maybe they freaked out when Covid emerged because the virus was right there with them, in the same rooms where they worked, masked, afraid to get infected, seeing others infected and dying. But the war in Ukraine… it is seems far away, happening elsewhere to other people…. something in the news, and there’s always something bad in the news.  Maybe that’s why they freaked out about Covid, but not about the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

“Nuclear Holocaust feels unshakeable imminent. I’m so scared and sad“- I am scared and sad too. You are not alone!

quaker. org: “Inner Light or Inward Light or Light Within– This is the central concept of Quakerism. Friends may differ on almost any other issue, but they are united in their belief in the presence of an inward source of inspiration and strength… it is a potential force for good in every human being, and [George] Fox has enjoined us to walk cheerfully through the world answering it. The constant presence of the Inner Light assures us of a continuing revelation and a contemporary religion that cannot become obsolete with changing times and the advance of secular knowledge”-

– I can think of peace in-between the ears as being an inner light, a light within, an inward source of inspiration and strength, a force for good. And imagine walking cheerfully regardless of imminent dangers, being optimistic regardless, substituting panic with cheerfulness… a wild idea?

anita