Today’s news–about how the nation of Poland lost its President, its First Lady, and its top leadership in a horrible plane crash–saddens me more than I can express. I wish there was something I could do to help the nation of Poland and its people. It’s not fair that history and fate have brought them so much suffering; they don’t deserve it.
I guess because I am a Scandinavian with Eastern features (I’m not one of those blonde Scandinavians at all), I feel a sort of kinship with people in the Baltics and the former Soviet States, because I share some of the same roots (at least if you go back hundreds of years through the cultures and the bloodlines; the Finnish language is Finno-Ugric, after all). Maybe this is why this news story has affected me so much.
For the people of Poland I wish for healing, for strength, for peace, and for stability.
