Music
Here is a favorite Russian tune, in a great setting – Katyusha is a tender diminutive from the female name Ekaterina (Catherine): Katya is the nickname and Katyusha, a tender diminutive. This is a Russian Soviet wartime song about a girl longing for her beloved, who is away on military service. The music was composed [...]
[originally posted in 2001] I met Paulina during the summer of 2000 in one of the non-ambulatory wards at the children’s home in Pavlovsk. She is ten years old, with severe cataracts–as far as I can tell she can see when the light changes but can not see any distinct forms. She does not speak; [...]
