First of all I would like to apologize for taking a break for so long and not telling you the news about my trip to Europe.
..After New Zealand issued a humanitarian visa for my mum, and after much deliberation and thinking of strategic combinations to take my mother out of Kiev (at that time the fighting took place around the city and throughout the Kiev region), Mum has decided to stay home. My heart refused to accept this decision, but my mind took over.
The biggest obstacle in the evacuation process was the movement from Kiev to the Ukrainian border with Poland or Romania: the road was shelled, there were large crowds of people, and lack of space in any forms of transportation.
At the border with Poland- there were open queues for 3 days .
And although in Romania it was - in theory - possible to cross the border control without queuing, Mum refused to leave her home.
As I said before, this has been a very common behaviour amongst the elderly in Ukraine. People do not want to leave their homes.
Mum - part of the disabled group 2 - suffers from an acute form of polyarthritis and hypertension. But when I rushed to Europe - all of this was not taken into consideration. After months of considering all angles and possibilites, it has become clear that her health would have not been able to endure the evacuation conditions. She would have died on the road.
As for me, I came back home to my family and we still do not live a normal life. We are all 100% addicted to watching the news.
Some would say that life goes on. Be outside. To that I would answer that life doesn't go on. On the contrary, every day ends with a sense of hopelessness, unfairness, and brutality, and it ends forever. And that the only healthy form of existence now is not prioritizing the safety of our psyche, but try saving those who are getting killed. You can try to help those who need help, who need love more than you do. It's very easy to save your psyche through participation. It is easier than rejecting reality, rebelling against violent deaths, and against daily killings.
Angus and I are collaborating with ReliefAid, an organization that helps Ukrainian refugees and other civilians in need. I know people who work in Ukraine who deliver food, tents, power points and modems with Internet access.
There's another foundation called "Magic Wings". My friends, young magicians,have founded this organization to help people in need in Ukraine .They have different projects; one of them is the purchase of medical equipment (second hand) and the delivery to hospitals of affected cities such as Kharkiv. They also deliver humanitarian assistance to Ukraine by bus from Germany-Poland.
They are a very reliable and trustworthy fund.These people are real heroes and patriots. We are helping them.
I had the privilege of making speeches and found rising at the Lyceum club Whakatane, in Pohutucawa Probus Club, on the Radio .
..Usually ,when you help people, you don't talk about it. But in this situation, I think that it is necessary to highlight participation in charitable acts. So that others follow them.
..When you read that Russians support the war in Ukraine because of patriotism - even if it is imposed upon them via propaganda and by the media - I want to share with you a fact from one biography:
...When the war began, a man volunteered for the front, fought, went blind during a gas attack, was seriously wounded in the leg, crawled to some kind of first-aid post, and found out that his homeland had been betrayed. The man was blinded by horror...
He recovers.
Then the man went back to the army, received high awards, returned to fight and was seen as 'a fiery and passionate PATRIOT'. When he realized that his homeland was coming to an end, he committed suicide.
What do you think of this person?
Was he a patriot ?
.....I'm talking about Hitler...
We always have an option to choose good instead of evil.
When you hear or read in the news that because of the war 'in Ukraine' there are higher prices of gas, food, and living costs, I want to emphasise and make a semantic correction: because of the war 'unleashed by Russia' in Ukraine.
This war activated many possibilities for the “powerful” of this world.
I cannot expect all people will feel the pain with the same intensity as I do, but for all the solidarity and support in my attempt to get my mother out of Kiev - I would like to give you all a huge, human thanks. For me the world now has been divided into two categories: allies and enemies. I was very lucky with the first category.
Very very lucky....
Gloria to Ukraine!
P.D.sorry for my “sutil” English.I try my best.Google and my daughter being helpful.
