For a long time now, I have written here in this place. You’ve seen me come and go and develop and devolve. Now, at last, I know where I need to go. North! It’s my newer blog and I will be writing there.
Month: December 2013
peppermint tea
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why no western ukraine
It was a talent that perhaps could have earned me a future slot as a diplomat in Prague {“The Secretary of State informed me that you are capable of saying it…”}, but, alas, there was that pesky Velvet Divorce. It happened {snap!} like that. Czechoslovakia dissected, cut into more easily pronounced halves. Nobody blinked, nobody twiddled nervous thumbs, the anxiety level was nonexistent, it was all calm and fine, at least from the vantage point of a New York junior high school student. Now that I read more about it, I can see that many people even opposed it! Still, it was bloodless, soft as velvet, and who doesn’t like velvet?
What I don’t understand, is why there is opposition to a Ukrainian “Velvet Divorce”? It’s apparent that Western Ukraine, those parts of current Ukraine that were once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is/are not happy with Kiev. They aren’t happy with Donetsk. Western Ukraine! Doesn’t it sound grand? {“Don’t worry, mother, she’s from Western Ukraine.”} And yet, when somebody brings up a partitioning of Western Ukraine from the rest of it, all you hear is no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. To which, I must respond, Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?…
…{Why?}