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Good Saturday morning, Friends!🌝☕️
Have a good, calm, quiet, and above all peaceful day, Ukrainian brothers!🙏🕊️
“War will end only when parents love their sons more than their ideology.” — Sigmund Freud
A bit personal. My dad has been visiting us for about a week now… so little, but already noticeable… next to him I feel like a child, I return to a carefree youth when there were neither life trials (for example, prison) nor temptations (money, women, power) in my life, when there wasn’t that damn war that takes the most precious things — the lives and health of relatives and loved ones…
I went through all of that, I processed it all, and now I’m sitting by my dad with tears in my eyes — not from the onions we’re cutting but from memories, from life’s and human losses, from the fact that correcting the mistakes made over a lifetime costs so much…
What treats and goodies Dad brought from our beloved Ukraine: Lubny salo, homemade sausage he made himself including from game he personally hunted, blood sausage, cured fish strips, smoked breams, and marinated silver carp from our Sula River that my father caught and prepared himself… and I haven’t found such fragrant, tasty unrefined oil anywhere in Europe.
We enjoyed it with friends over a shot of horilka and recalled the taste of childhood and that flourishing, prosperous Ukraine that was squandered, allowing the Fatherland, the cherry garden by the house, to be turned into a green concentration camp, a ruin, mangled by a terrible war…
Now I’ll record the morning broadcasts and we’ll go buy gifts and treats for Dad, for all our family… and this afternoon we’ll go grill the shashlik that Dad and I marinated yesterday, and over a shot of vodka we’ll remember my two brothers and my son who are currently in the military defending Ukraine on the fronts, my sister with her husband and nephew who live, work, and study under bombs and rockets in long-suffering Kharkiv, our whole large family… we’ll argue about politics and politicians until we’re hoarse, but we’ll certainly agree that, despite everything, Ukraine needs peace to save the state and people’s lives…
Friends, today is Saturday, a day off — pay attention to your relatives and, first of all, your parents! While they are with us, we are all children!
No to war!🪖
Peace to us all!🙏🕊️
We will live!🕊️🕊️
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