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The Basement Diaries 05

Kyiv - 31 December 2022

New Year's Eve. 04:00, in - or is it on? - my rack, tucked into my sleeping bag. In the bunker.

Maybe I should just re-title these The Bunker Diaries...

New Year's Eve. No parties or Grand Ball this year though, to be fair, they had dropped off most people's social calendar during the worst days of the pandemic. Strange to think of those as the good old days, when our deadly enemy was, usually, invisible and was killing us without trying to destroy our hospitals and schools, our electricity generating plants and transmission sub-stations. When, if you were bold enough or stupid enough, you could ignore the regulations, challenge the virus and party til you dropped. There was always a party.

It all seems so long ago. And those of us sensible enough to have avoided death by COVID now face death by drone and missile. So be it.

I am not on standby tonight, so I will go back to the basement to spend New Year's Eve "at home".
KiwiBird · 36-40, F
I like The Basement Diaries as a title. Perhaps mix and match with Bunker Nights 🤣🤣
Have missile attacks on Kyiv become so common you aren't even mentioning them?


New Years Eve in Australia was trying to make up for the last two. Crowds and Loud. No restrictions......expect Covid Waves in a week or so. There was a noticeable surge in hospitalisations after Christmas. Locally lots of fireworks and missing dogs prevailed.
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@KiwiBird 🇺🇦❤🇳🇿 it is the basement and living with other people that inspired me to start again... me on my own would be quite boring.

and i must acknowledge Dylan's Basement Tapes as contributing to the idea.

missile strikes? they are in the news, anyone who cares to know can know. i want to write not about the war but about living in the war. we will see how it develops. 🤗
This is going to sound kinda artistic and so far detached from your reality ...but in truth , i am VERY shamefully detached :
Im on a peaceful island half a world away.

But...i read what you write .

And you write REALLY WELL!

'The Basement Diaries' is an incredibly strong and gripping name for these thoughts .
Personally ...i love it .
I think you should keep at this , pursue it, collect it ....and even possibly think about finding a way to share it in a wider way to the world.

You write with creativity, but not so overly embelished it becomes fanciful ....its VERY real.

And its good for a person half a world away to know what's going on, to know how people feel and deal, and how life is beyond my safe little doorway of ignorant bliss.

I usually never respond to what you write...i have no words of true understanding to give .
I jist read and listen , and try to learn.. ..and see.

Your humour, your haikus, your diversion mixed with hints of your reality is soooo human .

But it's a WONDERFUL title .🤗

Maybe even a book title one day....... 💜
KiwiBird · 36-40, F
@Yulianna You do it well. 🤗🤗🤗
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@KiwiBird 🤗🤗🤗
sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
@OogieBoogie I second Kiwi's recommendation. Yulia's diaries are some of the best literature I've seen posted online. They are worth the time!

 
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