This is not what you want to start your Sunday with
Sometimes, when I’m really lucky ( and numb enough ) I can start my Sunday slow.
I’ll get up, put water to boil, pour it over green tea leaves, looking at how they change their shape, stretch, grow.
Still a bit sleepy, will cut some bananas over oats and cereal.
Don’t open the news, I’ll remind myself.
Not . Yet.
“They were found in tight embrace”
I’ll bring my pot with greet tea, a small cup I drink it from, and my bowl with oats and cereals and bananas - all to my favourite spot at the table, where sun light falls just right. I’ll open my language app to brush up on Italian or Japanese. Or read some of Joan Didion’s pieces I’m on right now, was it “South and West”? Or will open my notebook to write some plans - oh, plans - with my blue and pink liquid pens, rich enough to leave marks on the other side of the page so it ruins it and I will need to start on the next clean one,
wasting a whole page.
Don’t open the news.
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I’ll wait till my green tea is just the right temperature.
Will sip it, slowly. Biting into honey, sipping from the little cup a little more. Stretching time. Knowing that with every sip I take I am getting closer
to this fantasy to end.
That once my little pot is empty,
i’m going to open the news.
I am going to find out the death toll had risen after russian attack on Odesa.
That the 2 bodies they found just now were a woman and her 8-month-old baby she tried to cover with her own body.
I am going to see their blurred images under the rubble of what was their home.
They were found in tight embrace.
And war is back.
Not that it ever goes away - it never does - but it’s just sometimes, I can pretend,
just for a moment.
that I can breathe
like in an old times.
But then,
new update comes:
russian army killed 12 people ,
including 5 children
as young as 3 month old
by hitting apartment building in Odesa with drones on the night of March 1st.
Rescuers spent hours to search and unblock their bodies from under the rubble.
The search and rescue operation is now
completed.
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