Three Kids and a Kettle

Cathedral Hill in the evening of the Feast, from the window of the house. The last Feast from this window. All three…

The kitchen is in boxes. The kettle is on top of the last one, with the cups inside it, wrapped in Dastan's shirts.…

We decided. After the school year, in August, we go to Almaty. Dastan goes first in June to prepare the flat, then I…

Dastan's cousin in Almaty found a place for him in a building company, as a boiler engineer, the work he knows, with a…

Today the great bell tolls for the names of 1937. We stood in the yard in the cold, the whole parish, while the names…

For the first time since 2019 there is a line-up with the whole school in the yard. Masks for the teachers, no masks…

Since the spring we go to the early Qurbana at the cathedral and sit in the same place on the left side, by the…

Easter again at home. But this time the church was open for those who wished to stand in the courtyard with masks, and…

Fourth month in a row of the coal bill. The price is up by a third compared to the year before. Dastan got an extra…

My mother-in-law lives in the village and does not have the internet, so we call her on the phone twice a week and put…

After the Cross, no pilgrims also. The hill was almost empty after the Feast, even the sellers did not come. The one…

The square in front of the cathedral on the Feast, families standing apart. This year the Feast was almost empty. No…