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Oh it seems I'm lacking a bit behind with all the #photos from the #schwarzwald . Well, I don't want to flood you with all the forest. 😄
These photos are from another hike to another hike though the Black Forest and to one of those very cool black lakes. This time I brought my pol…
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Grace Cummings:
🎵 On And On
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https://gracecummings.bandcamp.com/track/on-and-on
https://open.spotify.com/track/3jP5pUJsLMgWsD3TZVx6xm
I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.
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London Grammar:
🎵 Truth Is a Beautiful Thing
#LondonGrammar
https://georgex.bandcamp.com/track/london-grammar-truth-is-a-beautiful-thing-george-x-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5EkLUVuXx0hANPUF3dO6IW
What a gorgeous view of Green Lake from the plane. Wish I had the window seat so I could've got a pic.
(Hello Seattle!)
at public records in #brooklyn, chicago underground duo playing from their new "hyperglyph." amazing unexpected melds between rob mazurek's chaotic beats/loops & chad taylor's wild intricate drums, which i knew from the album but didn't quite grasp 'til i saw it, plus an utterly gorgeous mbira/electronics duet.
hey! here are the last four #photos from our walk in the #schwarzwald . There were some pretty beautyful trails and - also a little blister-issue. But thanks to being prepared, it was easy to fix and we could enjoy the rest of the walk.
Some more photos and a short clip are on the blog:
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Georgia Knight:
🎵 Desire
#GeorgiaKnight
https://georgiaknight.bandcamp.com/track/desire
https://open.spotify.com/track/0bZ4ryGQa2tFES9sp90OdM