I miss Ukraine.

I miss Ukraine. I miss Kiev Center, L’viv Center, and the Carpathians. The air is different than white mountains or the cascades and so are the people.

Friend called yesterday to tell me about a new news channel a ‘friend’ (friendly acquaintance) of mine has started. Lots of photos. Lots of laughter. Lots of gossip.

Word is the Russians from the east have invaded like Mexicans have invaded the USA and it’s causing the same problems. Ukrainians are cultured, and soft spoken, and Russians are the Ukrainian version of america’s ‘trailer trash’: loud, rude, crude, and generally uncultured. Same is true in Estonia in Lithuania and Finland, by the way. I love russians among russians like I love all people among their own, but I don’t love them tuning cultural europe into trailer parks, any more than I like what happened to our cities in 20’s and the 60’s and now.