Hello my fellow global citizens.

I am finding it hard to carry on with regular day-to-day activities when there is a war going on. I feel shameful for having my regular worries, like paying bills, or conflicts among friends and family, or merely whether I can be somewhere on time.

I am hooked on CNN. I was watching CNN when the “shock and awe” was anticipated. Then it happened – the reporters just stopped talking, for eight minutes, at least. My mother and I were silent as well as we stared at the TV and not knowing even how to carry on a conversation. What is worse is what we don’t see. What is the truth on the ground?

This is a very different war from a technology standpoint. In a positive way where technology (wireless and internet) has played a role in rousing up civil society and in a negative way where it has helped further the extremity of the bullying by the US on Iraq rendering this ILEGAL war even more unfair. (big sigh)

I am not sure what I think about anything right now I am just overwhelmed and sad. I am also scared for my New Yorker friends. Just weeks ago I was walking through Grand Central Station and feeling clausterphobic and scared in the massive underground transportation system. Its so extensive it is hard to get above ground in a hurry and I understand their fear. You are likely to get trampled on if people panic.

My next posting will be more optimistic, I promise. But I think it was therapeutic for me to write this.