Clarissa's Blog

This is a squirrel in my native city of Kharkiv:

The photo was taken today.

I love America but I still haven’t gotten used to how hideous American squirrels are. They are gray with pathetic little tails. Glorified rats is what they are. Now, what you see in the photo is a real squirrel.

Another photo of Kharkiv from earlier this week:

Look how clean people are keeping the streets in the midst of daily bombings:

These are people who have taken the suggestion to make their beds every morning very seriously.

I could also post photos of ruined buildings and devastation but my purpose here is not to make everybody sad. God knows, we’ve seen enough sadness. Instead, I want to inspire with this testimony to the greatness of the human spirit that reaches towards beauty and order in the midst of chaos and destruction.

In what concerns the bombings, it’s gotten better since the Russian offensive on Kharkiv spluttered.