National Days & Anniversaries
Easter 2022
The baskets were still filled and still blessed. That is the whole of what I want to say about this one.
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Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
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International Women's Day, 8 March 2022
A short message on a day that arrived two weeks into something nobody was ready for.
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Day of Unity 2022
A January day about lands held together, marked as it always is.
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Christmas, 7 January 2022
A Christmas greeting on an ordinary January evening, with the tables as full as they had been for years.
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New Year 2022
A New Year greeting written on the first of January 2022, which reads differently now than it did then.
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St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2021
A greeting for a St Nicholas morning in the last ordinary December before everything else.
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Holodomor Remembrance Day 2021
A candle in the window on the fourth Saturday of November.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2021
A language day greeting, and a note on the people who translate in the other direction.
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Knowledge Day, 1 September 2021
A first-of-September greeting for a cohort returning to a yard they had barely seen.
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Independence Day 2021: thirty years, measured honestly
Three decades of independence, a land market that finally opened in July, an energy price shock building in Europe, and a military build-up on the border…
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Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2021
A midsummer greeting for a night that came back after a year of not happening.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2021
A greeting for Constitution Day, with a thought about amendment.
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