resin someday the war will end and we’ll all revive at last (oh how we’ll revive!) we’ll heal like wounds, we’ll grow back like leg and arm stumps, like an eye’s empty socket, where it’s dark forever. we’ll call the dead. еach name. and they’ll all come. and how they’ll stare, until the [...]
Four generations of women in my family talk about peace What is peace for us? I asked my daughter, who is 6 years old. She said that peace will come when the russians "leave us alone." And for this, in her opinion, we need to "finally defeat them". I asked my grandmother, who is [...]
...Peace. A mutilated word that has lost all meaning due to its absurdity. It is impossible to put up with evil. What can a woman who has once again sent her husband to war write? More precisely, to the combat zone, because war is what permeates our country; in every corner the siren is [...]
Here's an exercise. Close your eyes and think back to your childhood. Imagine a sandbox, or a swing, or a blanket spread out for a picnic. It's a beautiful sunny day. You have new toys. And then someone hits you, touches you, says an offensive word, takes away your doll. Do you remember? It's [...]
In the timeline available to us as humanity, the war has not stopped for a second... Even our Heaven is at war with (not) our Hell... Archangels are holding swords everywhere in our temples... And you will not find a temple in the world where celestial beings are caressing the next generations in the [...]
Ten years of the marathon, a race that is the length of our youth and distorted happiness, a marathon that has bitten into our destiny and taken away the safety of our children, many of whom were born during the war, who play, grow, learn, fall in love in times of war... And we [...]
A couple of years before the armed aggression of muscovy in 2014, it once occurred to me that our generation is lucky: we do not know what war, death, and destruction are, because the horrors of previous world wars are in the distant past. Of course, local conflicts happen all the time, but they [...]
Now I do not separate the word "peace" from the word "independence". Ukraine's independence from the russian invader. And my personal independence. "Peace" is unlikely to return to the meaning of "absence of war" anytime soon, because even the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops to the borders of 1991 will not mean that the war [...]
Opera-Myth "Ukraine - Terra Incognita", despite all the obstacles caused by Russian aggression, continues to tell the world about the beauty and power of Ukrainian songs. On May 31, 2023, in the Romanian city of Baia Mare, in the Greek-Catholic Church of St. Anthony of Padua, a singing performance by the creators of Opera-Myth [...]
On Friday and Saturday we held 2 magical music workshops for refugee children under the leadership of Ulyana Gorbachevska. We were visited by wonderful talented children from Kherson, Mariupol, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Luhansk, Severodonetsk and Kramatorsk. In just 2 hours, the children managed to learn a lot about musical instruments, open up, feel how the rhythm [...]
