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Chusta Ludowa, Aura Shroud
In the hours of this story, I was sleeping. At the same time: Some 95 Ukrainian population settlements, an increased number, shelled.At least 18 people, including 6 children, injured, drone attacks, Zaporizhzhia. At least 4 wounded, 3rd consecutive night, kamikaze strikes, Kyiv.Not here, no constant sirens, I was sleeping. Woke restlessly, dawning light, short breathing.‘You…
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Divine
Every time I’ve asked the sky- heavy head looking down in wonder- ‘Will you be ok?’ And every time, I see the four-leaf clover. First one, my answer: you will be fine. Two: I will see you again. Three, four, five… When will it be over? Six, seven, eight nine… (Molfar say to leave two…
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Кліщіївка
Time takes life away and gives us memories, gold with flame, black with embers. ~Adam Zagajewski
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Appropriation
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov Luka is a village near Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, 30 km from the russian border. Chekhov’s family rented a bungalow there in the summers of 1888 and 1889. Today at least two people were killed and 19 wounded…
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Kitchen News
For one year, five months and five days I’ve been sitting at my kitchen table listening to the news, something I had not always spent so much time doing before this full-scale invasion began. Unrelated to that tragedy, I learned today (through a post), that a dear friend of mine fell in her kitchen and…
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Краматорськ
On June 27, 2023, two russian missile struck Kramatorsk. One hitting a popular and crowded pizzeria, killing or severely injuring many people, including 3 children. The second hit a private house in the northern part of the city. In April, I painted the Свято-Успенська Святогірська Лавра (Holy Dormition Sviatohirsk Lavra), and had named the painting,…
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An Ode to Corona
“What’s natural is the microbe. All the rest — health, integrity, purity (if you like) — is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.” -Albert Camus, The Plague
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Paradoxical Duality
On a loom [the body] threads [experiences] are first stretched lengthwise: this is called the warp [the natural fabric of life]. At right angles to it, a shuttle coil [perpetual motion] goes back and forth, [memories and the present], bringing in the cross wires: the weft. The foreground [who we become] is what emerges out…
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Stargazer
exploring sensations of the mind clear from pollution or meaningless thought the sound goes through me there is a line from the top of my head through the center of my body i am aligned i dedicated this mediation to you covering you in protection a golden aura around you and all those near you…
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Decadentia
“The ancient Greeks believed that men of the past had been closer to the gods. From the beginning of its use in the English language decadence was understood as a fall or decline. The concept of decadence was philosophically expanded in Friedrich Nietzsche’s writings, describing a state in which cultures or individuals lack the focus…
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