Requiem for Summer'20
🏴 Most of my summer was occupied by thoughts about Belarus. The requiem can’t represent the true summer without statement on the situation in my home country.
- dealing with a lot of change in many aspects of life: personal and professional
- adopting a rescue puppy from Korea: learning a lot about how to take care of dogs, how to train them and also how to not go insane with constant supervision and attention
- worrying about friend being unlawfully detained
- experiencing pure joy after facetiming with him after he’s been freed
- celebrating C. birthday
- reading and learning about BLM movement
- driving upstate for a little hike with friends
- watching Lexington ave with no cars
- learning to ride a bike
- standing up for myself at work and moving things forward
- driving to Philly on a rental car that turned out to be a ridiculous Jeep pickup
- baking bread for the first time
- getting to know our neighbors
- seeing family after a long quarantine
- celebrating Hanna’s time in New York and having a farewell party in Prospect park
- having a lot of flashback to 2010
- having a crazy amount of support from friends and co-workers
- reading
short version: Тваё мора не мае назвы
