While I was reviewing photos for a "red" image for the April PUG, I came across this image of a red pysanka, a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional folk designs using a wax-resist method:
http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2022/3/22/peace I decided not to enter this image in the PUG, but to post it separately, because of what is happening in eastern Europe. My father made similar eggs (though not as artistic) as a boy, and he taught me to make them, as I did with my son. We are not Ukrainian, but Carptho-Ruthenians (Rusyns), a small ethnic group with a related language and similar cultural traditions. The village from which my grandparents emigrated is in the Carpathian foothills near Uzhgorod, an area that was then in Hungary, later in Eastern Slovakia, seized by the Soviet Union during WWII, and later incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR by Krushev, himself a Ukrainian. While that area, near the border with Slovakia, has not yet been attacked or bombed, I am deeply moved by the genocide taking place now in Ukraine. Pysanky are icons of Ukrainian culture, and symbols of rebirth, hope and peace. Orthodox Easter is March 24, both in Ukraine and Russia, and it will have additional significance this year. мир "Mir" or "Peace" in Ukrainian and Russian. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
