Lived Through This

A Heart Like Fields of Gold

Photo by Yuriy Bogdanov on Unsplash

Three Ukrainians sat around my table last Friday: a grandmother, a mother, and a two-year old child. We were celebrating.

The little group of refugees had travelled across Ukraine from Zaporizhzhya, where a huge nuclear power plant was the location of some heavy fighting in the early days of the ongoing conflict. The three left in haste on packed…