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I took an improv class. The rule is "Yes, and." You accept whatever your partner says and build on it.
This is against my nature.
In my first scene, my partner said, "Captain, the ship is sinking."
I said, "This is a submarine. It is supposed to go down."
The instructor called it "blocking." I called it accuracy.
For seven weeks, I was the fortress of the class. My partners built worlds. I inspected them for errors.
Then, in week eight, a woman named Pam pointed at me and said, "You are the greatest dancer in the kingdom."
I am not a dancer. I have never danced.
"Yes," I said. "And I have retired to teach."
The class lost it. Pam bowed to me. I bowed back. We danced badly for four minutes.
After class, the instructor told me the class had been waiting eight weeks for me to say yes.
They applauded. Not the scene. Me.
I have decided to say yes more often.
Yesterday my neighbor said, "Nice weather."
I said, "Yes, and the humidity is building character."
He has not spoken to me since.
🚨🇺🇦🇷🇺 32,000 dead in one month: Trump says Ukraine has to want a deal because Russia has far more men to send
Trump put the war's toll last month at 32,000 on both sides, mostly young soldiers, and laid the next move squarely on Kyiv:
"Ukraine does not have a lot of people to draw from, and it's time to make a deal."
The manpower math is real, since Kyiv already dropped its draft age to 25 while Russia keeps recruiting from a population more than three times larger.
His claim that America got "nothing back" skips the minerals deal Kyiv signed last year, though.
Expect the squeeze on Zelenskyy to tighten fast... Putin wants a November summit with Trump and Xi that leaves Ukraine out of the room, and every word like this makes that meeting easier to say yes to.
Writer: Daniel