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And So It Begins

S.J. Elliott
5 min readFeb 24, 2022

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I woke up to conflict & snowflakes

Snow & Sticks
Photo by Roma Kaiuk on Unsplash

This morning I woke up to the most beautiful snowfall I’ve seen in a while.

The flakes were big and fluffy and glittering as they made lazy patterns against the pre-dawn sky. Then, one by one, they floated down to their final resting place against the earth.

The air was still and quiet. I felt peaceful in that moment and wanted to stay there, enchanted by the beauty of what I was witnessing.

We live an existence of contradictions. My awe-inspiring morning turned to genuine devastation as the news started coming in.

Ukraine was under attack. You know, officially.

As I stood in my backyard watching nature at its best, half a world away, people were running for their lives.

It Has Begun

There is a lot I don’t know about US and Russ!a relations.

There is a lot I don’t know about the global banking system and the dirty money that seemingly funds the industrialized world.

There is a lot I don’t know about a lot of things in the geopolitical arena, but what I do know is that we are entering terrifying times.

Things are going to change. For everyone.

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S.J. Elliott
S.J. Elliott

Written by S.J. Elliott

Aspiring story-teller. Ordained coffee connoisseur. I write about processing personal trauma, & my quest to be a better version of myself as a human/woman/wife.

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