about pix - well, they don't give justice to reality. but better to have them than not to have them.
they recognised me as their own.
Wonderful and dazzling photos of a trip I could no longer undertake. Thank you for this. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
Someone on ET should write a diary on the concept of "home" (where one is from or currently lives v. where one feels a sense of belonging, etc.). Seems to be a theme around here. "Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky
the concept of home is good idea. maybe some more experienced writers than I can handle it. I really feel more at home here than in my birthplace, let alone moscow.
And this is what I'd assumed (I indeed have an ethnic Russian friend who left that area around that time.) But you still felt uncomfortable there? "Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky
