Dear Yuri, Airplanes scar the cloudless sky. The smoky scent of intimacy carries in on the breeze from a barbecue. Connections, new and old, swirl...
Dear Yuri, Today is the first day I really noticed the world outside. The sun has caught the rosebush in the front garden and illuminated the pink...
Dear Yuri, The clocks have gone into reverse All the cars gone; temporary blessing This virus has set us back centuries Now it’s more than...
Dear Yuri, I took a breath and cried out loud Why all the people marched forward with the frightened crowd Don’t touch, stand back, eyes steeped with...
Dear Yuri, Before everything starts, no one in the world could ever imagine how would the year of 2020 looks like. Sometimes the world just feels...
Dear Yuri, I struggled at first. I threw myself into keeping busy, I worried about whether I’d still have a job at the end and I spent each night...
Dear Yuri, I look out the room of my bedroom window, sunlight slipping in like gold, and peer upon the gardens of my neighbours. I’ve always glanced...
Dear Yuri, Like almost everyone around me, I am also anxiously watching the effects of this pandemic ripple through the world and its people. Many of...
Dear Yuri, We have been in lockdown for six weeks now. In this time I have changed jobs and my partner has temporarily lost his. He looks after the...
Dear Yuri, I am wondering about abrupt, unforeseen and unanticipated changes, about which we haven’t envisaged and imagined. The current situation of...
Dear Yuri, Another day ticked off. This one quicker than the last one…or was that the one before? I can’t complain about my circumstances...