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14 Jun

The Phenomenal Babiy Brothers Ukraine Trip

The Daily Llama / Blogroll, Family HIstory, Travel / June 14, 2023 / 0 Comments

THE PHENOMENAL BABIJ BROTHER UKRAINE TRIP…that might not have happened

By David Babij
30 July 2019

First, Brother James, the elder Babij, decided to make a 3^rd trip to the “homeland”. In conversation with Brother Dan in early 2019, James encourages Dan to consider going “home”. Dan…who has never been farther away from MI than Cozumel or California, and has no passport or any clue as to what is involved. Dan buys in to the plan, shops flight plans, applies for his passport. In an email from James, the plan for the 2 brothers to go “home” is revealed to the rest of the clan. David, the baby Babij, reads the email…the immediate reaction is “Oh hell no, if Dan is going then I am going too!!”Read more

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15 May

The Old Country: Between The Forceps and The Stone

The Daily Llama / Family HIstory, Social Commentary, Travel / May 15, 2022 / 0 Comments

Former Business Offices Of Prokop Babiy, Burkaniv.

INFINITE DREAMS.

“How can you be in two places at once when you’re not anywhere at all”?

—The Firesign Theatre..

Isn’t that what “Dreaming” is – being cognitively in separate spaces at the same Time – “Anywhere” and “Nowhere” at once? Life then, like the song lyric, may indeed be a Dream, infinitely intertwined along a continuum of separate realities. How many of us right now at this instant are alive on this planet; eight billions? Life then – literally “Between The Forceps and the Stone” – might be a projection of eight billion multiple realities radiating from eight billion human bi-locating sources; finite creatures interlinked via rhizomatic networks along finite timespans, dreaming versions of the ultimate non-sequitur: Immortality.
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03 Sep

The Old Country: In Nomine Patris

The Daily Llama / Family HIstory, Travel / September 3, 2018 / 0 Comments

FAITH AND FICTION.

Upon reaching senescense, we tend to look back on our lives and begin to ask questions of ourselves. Questions we might have asked of our forebears when they were alive – not that they would have come up with any answers either. Questions like: “where did we come from?”; “what were our forebears like?”; “who were they?”; “what did they do for a living?”; “who are we?”; and ultimately; “what is that?”Read more

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23 Sep

The Old Country: Ternopil Oblast

The Daily Llama / Family HIstory, Travel / September 23, 2017 / 0 Comments

UKRAINIAN [Українська].

The earliest recollection I have of hearing the ethnic appellation Ukrainian applied to our family name Babij was in the Fall Quarter of my first year of college during the Kennedy Era when I received a telephone call from a woman (whose name unfortunately I do not recall) inviting me to a gathering of Ukrainian-descendant students to be held at an apartment in the campus married housing complex. The woman went on to describe what typically went on during such occasions: an exchange of tales relating to family lineage and history; performances of traditional folk songs and dance; picnics where participants cooked and ate traditional food like beet soup, pedaheh (pirogi or varenyky) dumplings and stuffed cabbage called holubtsi or “pigs in a blanket”, similar to those I’d tasted before that had been made by Grandma Anna; and Sunday excursions to the local Orthodox church for Mass.
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