Thursday, January 17, 2013

Tolstoi, Manitoba

Propinquity and the Bonds of Faith ~ Ukrainian Orthodox:  A white clapboard edifice like this made the 'new country' a little like the 'old country.' The first generation of pioneers must have felt comfortable knowing they would find eternal rest in such familiar surroundings. [2012]

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  1. To forever rejoin in peace one's family, friends, neighbors, differences and quarrels now forgiven, forgotten, vanished.

    In the shadow or sight of one's place of worship where so many arrivals, departures, unions and joys were celebrated, and griefs soothed too.

    To those who shunned big city mirages, faraway adventures, foreign loves, to those who, for the fields, the farms and shops so that the little community should live and her cherished name perdure, stayed and labored,

    peace in these beloved grounds is the reward.

    Vaison

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