HeyJaredWar, Love, and Survival in Ukraine 🇺🇦
Living for today, dreaming of tomorrow, fighting for a future
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One Mission, at Least, Is Accomplished (opens the original)
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Don’t forget Ukraine.Don’t forget Ukraine.Don’t forget Ukraine.Don’t forget Ukraine.I said it in articles, I said it in notes. I found hundreds of ways of saying it, and some of you have read every one of them.There were so many days when I thought, man, you are saying the same thing again.And I said it anyway.More than four years have passed since I started doing this. Somewhere after the 300th article I stopped counting, although my wife didn’t.And now I look at you and realize that one of the
While Beside You Is Still Possible (opens the original)
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For the first time since I can remember, I went more than two weeks without giving you a new article.Many times during those sixteen days I thought I would never write anything again.I am writing this now.This page is proof that I am still here.My wife told me we should think about divorce..I learned to speak less about my family. Their lives belong to them, and there are things I have no right to expose simply because I am the one putting what happens to us into words.This time I cannot leav
Independent From Almost Everything (opens the original)
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For weeks I have been preparing a book about my cat.I planned to give it to you today.Today arrived, the book did not.And I am sorry for not coming here with the gift you did not know you would get.Say it out loud and it sounds absurd. A man in Kyiv, on the 35th anniversary of his country’s independence, deciding that his contribution to the date is a book about his cat.Tolik, my partner of life these days, is the most independent creature I hav
Someone Hung Our Flag Before Ukraine Existed (opens the original)
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In 1848, the people of Lviv walked into the square and found a blue and yellow flag hanging on the town hall.Nobody knew who had put it there.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="575" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetc
Everything I Write, I Have Written Before (opens the original)
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Last week I started six articles. I did not finish any of them.They’re all there, open somewhere on my computer, each one with a decent first paragraph and then that blank bit where I stopped.With every one, I stopped in the same place.The place where I asked myself if I had not said this before.So today I will write about that.About what happens between us whenever I sit down to write.Sometimes I have the impression I have told everything. That there is nothing else to tell, nothing to add, bec
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