We return to the National Museum of Art to browse the top floor. We’ve saved it, knowing that we won’t get an adoption appointment today. We enter the most fabulous rooms of paintings by Georgiy Melikhov (1908-1985). In 1947, he won the Stalin prize, which speaks volumes. Back then, of course, any artist who didn’t […]
The National Museum of Art & Ukrainian Food, Part 1
I wake up crying. I’m on the tail-end of a dream about the little girl we met yesterday. I watch as her caregivers hold her close and tell her that her mama and papa said “no”–they didn’t want her–and I’m so consumed with grief and sorrow for her sake that I cannot bear it. The […]