All my Ukrainian friends are affected in various ways. Yuriy that I have worked with for over 25 years has heart problems related to the stress of war. He wrote me to say he needs a pacemaker but the cardiology hospital in kyiv was hit with a bomb and killed a doctor and nurse. Now he is worried to stay there a week. In fact he worries all the time because he often sees drone or missile bombs overhead. They get wakened up in the middle of the night with air raid sirens so they lack sleep.

The city where the fork crown pieces were laser cut and my fixtures are made has power outages all the time. This means no hot water that comes from the city. Cold showers. They can't take the elevator and be online. Everybody knows someone on the front line they worry about. The towns in Ukraine have women and old men, all the guys are off to war and may never come back. Men that do come home have missing limbs. The company that does the laser cutting has it production greatly reduced and now they have to source steel from Germany rather then Ukraine where the steel mills have been destroyed. The situation is depressing. It is nice to have a project that can help at least a few.