On War

February 28, 2026

Dear A —,

Another war. You’re too young to know or understand such things, and my deepest wish is that you never will. Trouble is, it seems the writers of history place wars like bookmarks on the calendar of human time.

It winds through the Judeo-Christian Old Testament Bible like a blood-red thread and most of the wars these days are initiated by those who share that cultural and religious history. Is that why they keep killing? Some might say so, and religious books do have a lot of power over people. But I don’t know if it’s entirely to blame. After all, the Bible sits deep in our own family roots, and we don’t want to go out and kill.

No, I think we’re too quick to make sweeping generalizations, though I do wonder if that’s why men in power believe it’s the only way to solve things.

By the time you read this, will things have changed? How old are you and what is the world like for you? I read that some call this time an “extinction burst.” It’s a term to describe the final regression into the very worst aspects of patriarchy before the collective move forward.

Some call it “the end times.” (That’s built into Judeo-Christian mythologies too.) It’s an interesting thought, that we may finally be ready to transition, to find better leaders, to care less for profit and more for one another. To stop seeing war as a solution to anything.

To change the kind of bookmarks we leave behind in history.

Is that your future world? That is my deepest wish.