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Lesya's avatar

One thing that struck me when reading this blog: all those delays led to your Odyssey seeing the day at the most fitting moment. The moment when the world is facing possibly the biggest migration crisis of our lifetime and millions of people are living away from home, without much hope for a new one, let alone for coming back to their old one.

Personally, I am privileged. I left my home having some security and support from my employer, but so many more had no such luck. And when I look at them - now I live in Armenia, a small country with only 3 million of its own people, the country that took in more than 100,000 refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh last autumn, and I, as many people, give some of my spare time to a charity that helps both them and Ukrainian refugees, - I see many things, but only rarely despair. They keep striving for life. They are all different of course, but I try to concentrate on those whose resolve and humanity could teach us all a lesson or two. Will they ever be back to their homes? Nobody knows. Same with those Ukrainians who found a refuge here. Their Odyssey has only just begun, and nobody knows what awaits them tomorrow, so there is no better time for your Odyssey than now. Tomorrow. September. We all need to know that there is hope for them and for the world. And this is what your books always do. They give home.

Odysseus was lucky in the end. He returned. Good luck to us all - we'll need it.

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Anna Schott's avatar

All I know is when I try to write I don't know shit––don't know what I'm doing, why I'm doing it, or how to do it. Sometimes it comes out anyhow. I'd like to give myself credit for this, but it's probably the elves.

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