Aug12

bloom.

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beauty and flowers in kyiv, ukraine, art by maria golub

beauty and flowers in michigan, found on my walk

(some of the biggest blooms i have ever seen, look at the pink flower to see the scale)

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slava, ukraini!

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‘peace is not just the absence of violence, peace is when the flowers bloom.’

-amrita pritam

Mariya Golub lives in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, Mariya graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture.’I have been drawing since I was three years old. The first time I tried to scratch a horse with a stick on a green leaf of a tree. I saw horses everywhere, flowers and clouds turned into horses for me, because I thought a lot about them.’ – MG

Amrita Pritam (1919 – 2005) was an Indian novelist, essayist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. She has written more than a hundred books and was the recipient of the 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award.

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  12. Love this, thanks for sharing…I read a great book by Norwegian Author Erika Fatland called “The Border” – she travelled completely around Russia’s border and told the story of each neighboring country and its history with Russia…they are a country that is always in a war or conflict with their neighbors…Ukraine follows a long, despicable history of Russia’s provocations and destruction…

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    • both of these were so dramatic and i found them on the same day, one on a walk, and the other online, where i saw this artist’s beautiful work for the first time –

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