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I have started a post about Easter and it has not happened... and I've been in many places, seen many things, and composed multiple blog posts on multiple topics (in my head)... so many themes I'd like to share. Right now, I feel some breathing room, having landed in the very peaceful town of Cieszyn, so I hope to share more soon. But I am still swirling in the obereks and mazureks I left behind in Warszawa, and my being has not fully come down from the entirely magical few d

Today was a classic Lviv day. Started with rushing to get dressed just right for church, embroidered shirts, etc., and ended with coffees and Spartak cake at a cafe (actually it ended with warm cheese sushi, but don't ask ;)) The country is observing the old calendar Easter, so today was Willow Sunday or Flowering Sunday (квітна неділя). We brought our own bundles of willows to be blessed at church. I carried my "verbu" wand I had made in Vilnius (in the Polish style), and th

When I'm here I have this overwhelming sense of being at home, but overwhelming isn't quite accurate. In fact, this time, returning here, it's this strange feeling of simply being back in the element that is so familiar, like being back at an altitude where you breathe easy, or (I can only imagine), a fish that's back in the water where it belongs... it's less dramatic than that... so maybe it's a plant back in it's native land... I'm grasping for allegory, my mind is working