It’s a week since I’m back to my home country and hometown. Not much time to spend alone and very little time to write. The energy of the place is incredibly versatile. Like a rose with multiple petals, it reveals itself layer after layer.
Up until recently my knowledge of my family lineage has been very scarce. When I started examining myself through my genetic lineage for the first time, I interviewed all my…
My great-grandmother Zoya has been a beacon of literacy for my entire family. I never met her in person, for my mother was a child herself when she died of…