Editor’s note:Marketa Vorel of the Anacortes-based Sunflower F.U.N.D. nonprofit is currently in Ukraine delivering aid to several organizations that the group helps support. The following column details her experiences.
My day starts at Blagodatne, a large country farm estate owned by three brothers and their families. I slept so well here that I never heard the Shahed drones flying overhead, aimed by Russia toward some other Ukrainian town or village. Here, the peace of the expansive fields, tamed rows of wine grapes, the smell of freshly tilled earth and a cacophony of barnyard animals remind me of farms in the Skagit Valley. So much so that it makes me quite homesick as I puzzle over how to send a Valentine to my husband and daughter. I settle on a heart-shaped selfie I took with a jovial resident donkey. This, of course, is an inadequate gesture in light of my two month absence from home.
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