Viktoriia Grivina

and living one walks with him!

And only humans frown,
This cannot be.

Somebody would have stopped it long ago.
… meanwhile we walk through time.

He firmly puts his stone foot.
We walk through night, through steppe storms.
Through rain and snow, debates and debutes.
We are because we cannot be.

I’m so fed up with?
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It did catch me, that world, good thing at least
that on the other side. No trouble, I will push off this pedestal, and we will walk.

… and so we walk, the two of us.
The forest whispers: the living with a stone!
Look at this vision, grass wonders -
He’s made of stone, 👇

It’s birthday of the Ukrainian baroque philosopher Hrihorii Skovoroda. A verse by Lina Kostenko imagines Skovoroda’s monument walking with Lina through time (excerpts):
“Oh, look there who is sitting in that garden?
Do I dare talk to him?
Shall I eat that hybrid apple?
The one whose spirit 👇

“We rather adapted to the house , rather than the other way around”, is such a warmly humorous sentence. Distracting from editing my poor thesis, I am reading The Rooster House by Victoria Berlin.

Twenty experts on the book that got them through their 20s – part one Many of us turn to literature to guide us through the highs and the lows of this formative time

Happy to share my recommendation in this brilliant list of the books any 20-year-old should read with @theconversation.com. My choice is The City by Valerian Pidmohylnyi, and it’s a love-hate-love relations 😉: theconversation.com/twenty-exper...

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Inside Ukraine - Viktoriia Grivina, Ukrainian Anthropologist, PhD Candidate, Scotland, UK — WOW Woman

Proud to highlight a WOW WOMAN who advocates for Ukraine in Scotland. She is the real deal! Viktoriia Grivina @brams884.bsky.social is from Kharkiv and that alone should tell you everything you need to know - she is strong and brave.
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Vasyl Stus wrote poem “Enough Blood” in 1971. It fits today’s privileged pacifism well.

- Enough blood, - the torturer declared,
When the knife was still driven under my ribs,
Stuck in my back.
And I thought, all wincing with pain:
What if he decides
To be my doctor as well?

Listening to an anthropological paper, you are never safe from hearing about the “russian fugitives” in today’s Balkans, making the neighbourhoods more “russian-speaking” since the locals are so happy to learn the language of the “fugitives”, and even remember it from school 💀.

Perfectly formulated.

As if “a Ukraine” doesn’t need forests and cities 😭. I recognize a good intention, but the way “land in Europe” doesn’t include Ukraine here, and Ukraine is seen as a Soviet food colony once again is a bit scary.

This Kharkiv cat is oh so energetic and enthusiastic about your work things.

An artwork by Maria Schneider-Senyuk dedicated to the 1930s hunger in Ukraine. Maria drew inspiration from traditional ornaments. Her art was looted by the russian military from the Kherson art museum in 2022.

Kazymyr Malevych wrote a lot about Ukrainian food. His work, Three Figures, is said to reflect the death by hunger of the Ukrainian farmers in 1932-33. “Hammer and sickle bring death and hunger”. Drastic difference to his colorful suprematist works, the drawing haunts viewers.

1921-22, 1932-33, 1946-47

If you need warmth
It’s better to go to the snow-bound garden.
In the farthest corner you’ll find
The lonely hut of the horseradish..
Yes, it’s here, the poor hut of a horseradish..
Is there a light on inside? — Yes, he’s always at home..
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Knock, he will let you in..

Oleh Lysheha, Song 352

“When you need to warm yourself,
When you are hungry to share a word,
When you crave a bread crumb,
Don’t go to the tall trees —
You’ll not be understood there, though
Their architecture achieves cosmic perfection,
From the one-thousandth floor
They might toss snowy embers on your head.. 👇

Tomorrow will be the Remembrance Day of the victims of Holodomor. How strange to stumble across the park exhibition in Edinburgh where Kharkiv is mentioned in such precisely in its darkest hour.

The irony of the situation, it wasn’t the Swan Lake that was staged in Kyiv opera a day before the invasion, but the Ukrainian classics Natalia Poltavka by Mykola Lysenko. If only foreigners knew Ukrainian culture, they would get the irony.

«Балерина з Києва» Стефані Перез — Чайковський вступає в Тероборону Чому роман «Балерина з Києва» Стефані Перез так переймається "Лебединим Озером" і робить Чайковського головним культурним героєм українців під час війни з росією

Starting the day with uncontrollable laughter at reading a review on a French novel about fictional Ukrainian ballet dancers who just love the great russian culture so much they listen to Chaikovsky in Olenivka torture prison wiping tears with cheburashka. chytomo.com/baleryna-z-k...

This Kharkiv cat has exactly the character for a successful Monday.

This pretty lady lives on the street where Mary Shelley lived 🐈‍⬛.

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Photos of a friend’s Kyiv Art studio hit by a russian drone. Then, a young talented poet Serhii Naumenko, resident of my first art residency killed on the Zaporizzhia front. We all met in 2022 by Chetemosh river, made art and ate pizza by the water, wrote. Talked about future. I have no words left 👇

This Kharkiv cat is your Friday deadlines administrator.

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