Blue and Yellow Memories of Kyiv

"Blue & Yellow - Memories of Kyiv"


It’s interesting how present events can bring back old memories. The war happening now in Ukraine and threatening other European countries has reminded me of the time I visited Kyiv.

It was June of 1981. I was still a child at the time and had no idea what the new decade, the eighties, was about to bring. I guess nobody did.

Yet, that early summer, my parents signed us up for a guided group tour through several cities of what was then the U.S.S.R.. It was one of my first longer trips abroad, and I was eager to see and learn about new places, cultures and customs, so much so that I brought along with me a tiny notebook. And so, during that trip, each night before going to sleep, I would write down every thought and memory of that day in my notebook. Recently I looked for that notebook, yet couldn’t find it anymore.

Still, some of the memories from that trip have stayed with me through the decades, somewhere in the back of my mind. Thanks to current events, those memories have resurfaced in a vivid…expected way.

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