"Think about the familiar small routines of your own day and how they'd be affected by an invasion. Are you or your family sitting by the window? Mightn't it shatter in an explosion? Are you seriously going to drop your child off at school with missiles falling? You were going to have coffee with a friend, but it says on Facebook there's a gun battle near the place you were supposed to meet up."

-from the London Review of Books, James Meek's Dispatches from Kyiv on 24/2/22

I will be dropping my kid off at school...

"...then put the kids to bed. The kids took a long time to fall asleep, so we read to them for more than an hour. We are reading 'Comet in Moominland,' which has suited the last few weeks well. There is stuff like. 'Let's go dancing--the comet isn't coming until Sunday, so we have plenty of time to dance.'"

-from the New Yorker, Masha Gessen's interview with Lena Samoilenko in Kyiv

I read that to my kid too.