I found this collage here. The text is Ukrainian. The author goes by vaenn. Please click to enlarge. Maryxmas’ journal, by the way, is one of the most important contributions to the Ukrainian blogosphere, in my not-so-humble opinion. She’s not celebrating today. She feels sorry for both “those who lived to see Victory, and thoseContinue reading ““War – It’s not just about Victory””
Author Archives: Natalia Antonova
Remember, remember
Everyone who suffered in the Great War. On this day, my maternal great-grandmother screamed and tore at her chest in the narrow bed with the curtains drawn – her son would not return. It was embarrassing to celebrate anything. But my great-grandmother is long gone and, we hope, at peace, because even her picture inContinue reading “Remember, remember”
When I came to this country
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On My Grandmother’s 80th Birthday
I think about career. My grandmother was a successful physician and administrator who ended her working days after well over 50 years, more than half a century of infectious diseases and bureaucracies. I think about old age. I know how much she misses work – the starched white coat, the nurses flipping on the electricContinue reading “On My Grandmother’s 80th Birthday”
A very old and silly and sweet pseudo-poem
Oh the gentlemen are talking in another room, And I listen, still and silent, like the peering moon. Shadows cross the lick of light beneath my door, While their boots knock ditties on the wooden floor. Through the wall I hear them singing Of a woman who is far, Of the march of the cossacks,Continue reading “A very old and silly and sweet pseudo-poem”
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