Being 9,550 km away from home is stressful. Being there is more stressful of course. The news gets into your mind through the same channels though. Once it is in it is in and bounces around your brain 24 hours. The tough part is your choices of things you can do to help are more limited. You can donate, read, watch, educate yourself/others, post, etc. Beyond that there isn't as much you can do in a different country.

That's why yesterday I was pleasantly surprised when a thing someone can do from afar presented itself. My partner teaches online yoga class to people in the US and Japan. One of the students in Minnesota thanked her for providing an hour of normal for everyone.

I notice that with people I talk to from there. They are very interested in what I am doing day to day. They like hearing the boring details of me going to get ramen or playing a show. Normal life details seems to help charge peoples batteries.

It is a small thing people living 9,550 km from home get to do. Provide a bit of normal and listen to people when they let out their stress.

ICE out now.