My solstice celebration

Last night I went to bed early and in my own bed -- for the first time in almost a year. The cat and dog were more than delighted. The dog was so excited she tried to hump ythe bed. The cat just purred all night and now he is upstairs yowling at me, trying to get me to go back to bed.

Light at the end of the tunnel, I guess.

The storage shed is leaving in about an hour.

Medecins Sans Frontieres: Top Ten Humanitarian Crises

Here is the Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres yearly top ten list of humanitarian crises.

Seven of them directly involve protracted warfare.