2021 has been a hard year for me,  withstanding the pandemic.

in the end a kitten and a new medication in the middle of november helped blessedly
beautifully:)

i am reading a poem
by osip mandelstam
"and i was alive"

there is a mention of an article from "the new yorker" magazine in regards to this poem
and his situation at that moment when he wrote it:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/mandela-in-verse-myself-i-stood-in-the-storm

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