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9 years together ✅
This year, on May 9, 2015, we celebrated our ninth anniversary as a couple and our second wedding anniversary. The wedding itself took place on May 7, 7 years after the beginning of our relationship. We came up with … Continue reading
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My Life’s Work Is Now Life Itself
When people ask me, “Where do you work?”, “How do you make a living?”, “Why are you always on social media even though you don’t like them?”, “How do you find yourself?”, “How do you discover your life’s calling?”, “Where … Continue reading
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11.11.11
At eleven eleven, On this festive Friday, Ears twitch beneath tiny hats, Hurrying to send An important message, Two cats and eleven kittens. They made it! By a miracle. They lined up— Not perfectly, but as best they could. With … Continue reading
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Our day in Utrecht
It was 2011, Igroglaz and I lived in the Netherlands in the city of Wageningen, where one of the main universities in our specialty in the world is located – Wageningen University. And we were young soil scientists who came … Continue reading
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Will the Heavens Pour…
Will heavens weep and cast their tearful rain, Will years depart, their toll in sorrow plain? And weary, will you wait for love’s embrace, While life’s cold rails bear us through time and space? The mundane traps us in its … Continue reading
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Hey, human, heed!
Close your ears with tender flesh, Take up steel or wood afresh, Or don the plot, once loved, now worn, And let its weight your form adorn. Hear them speak — all truths, no lies, No deceit — the arc … Continue reading
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In the Metro
Breath of light. Steam and sun. People swarm. Crowds undone. Salty air outside the pane, Steam ascends — it bares its fangs in vain. Faces fade, just shades remain: Gray, black, white, and black again. Paths divide — the silence … Continue reading
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Seconds
I’m sitting at a lecture on soil erosion in auditorium M2 at the Soil Science Department of Moscow State University. It was Saturday at 9 a.m., first lecture. Only I and three other sleepy classmates showed up. Igroglaz was usually … Continue reading
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