When War Becomes Background Noise

What happens to the human heart when war fades into daily life?
In this three partWeBeTheChange series, A Collage of War, we’ll journey into the historical conscience of war with elder author Dan Strawn.
Dan Strawn opens this first episode with a short but potent poem he wrote before the Iraq invasion. Then he widens the frame: war as a bully-pattern, war as greed, war as a spiritual injury to a nation’s character.
His lived memory carries a steady insistence to not normalize what should break our hearts.
If you’ve felt overwhelmed by the current clamor, you’ll appreciate the slower tempo of…