Tag Archives: ukraine

a thousand suns.

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‘a sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.’

-corina abdulahm negura
SLAVA UKRAINI
photo credit: Food and Wine Magazine

 

slava ukraini.

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‘the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,

but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.’

– Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

art credit: lele saa, stand with ukraine

‘our thoughts are with all those who stand for peace.’ n. o’reilly.

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it’s been two years

“and the sunflowers are an eternity in themselves.

let them embrace our dreams and invigorate our hope evermore.”

* bhuwan thapalia

 

*Bhuwan Thapaliya is a nepalese poet writing in english.

he is an economist and is the author of four poetry collections.

 

 

 

photo credit: hollie adams, getty

one year later.

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“I live in Ukraine with my family. I love my country, family, friends, people.

I fight for them. I fight for Ukraine.”

-Oleksandr Usyk

 

art credit: elana vasylieva, ukranian landscape watercolor

 

 

presidents.

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“history is full of surprises.”

-arthur m. schlesinger, jr.

the truth.

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tide.

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“I know how difficult it is going to be,

but I also believe that if just in one place we can win the battle over greed and callousness,

that one victory may swing the tide over the entire world.”

-Madeleine L’Engle, Dragons in the Waters

art credit: Serhii Vasylkivsky, a.k.a. the “Painter of the Sky”, National Art Museum of Ukraine

for ukraine.

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The village of Dzembronya, in the Carpathian Mountains,

is often called the place where the clouds are born,

because it is the highest mountain settlement in Ukarine.

 

“people do not want war.

war springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.”

-frederic clemson howe

 

 

photo credit: Roksana.Bashyrova/WikiCommons