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20 May

Alive In The World

I’ve recently been viewing a series of posts on social media documenting the ongoing terror and tragedy currently raging in Ukraine, uploaded from various sources [see below] including those shared by our tour guide, translator, and close family friend Diana Borysenko, whose efforts on our behalf these past several years are the primary reason these blogs and videos about The Old Country even exist – not to mention all of the members of our extended family we’ve met and the friends that we’ve made there because of her talents – Ukrainians all – whose lives are at risk as we speak.Read more

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The Old Country: Between The Forceps and The Stone

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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