Saw Bol
Tue Sep 03 2024

So...it will be Kazakhstan...around 6600-ish km of sky&clouds to cross, some 13 hours of blue scenery, practically, "around the corner"...it will be a holiday with an added poignant "bonus"...I am taking my mom with me...a place she could call home...her family still lives there...surviving sisters and all the second and third level generations...my cousins and my nieces and nephews...so it'll be time of catching up with family, with classmates, as I spent first 15 years of my life there and consider it my Little Motherland...Last time I've been there was...gosh!..18 years ago...and now I am taking my mother home...to join her parents and brother in the family's afterlife's plot...It felt right to reunite her with the ones who loved her and were loved by her, so on the first anniversary of she died we will do just that. And then we'll celebrate her life together, filling missing pieces in our memories of her, painting the fullest picture that is possible...It will be both, a sad and a wonderful journey and I will come back richer from experience...

Not sure if I'll have more time to write anything here before I leave, hence decided to do it a bit in advance...so you'd know not to wonder, if you ever would...This entry entitled as "сау бол", translates from Kazakh into Bye For Now


4 Comments
  • From:
    D'vorahDavida
    On:
    Tue Sep 03 2024
    Well, that's a bittersweet trip for sure. I'm glad to hear there will be family waiting for you... and your mom.... 💗
  • From:
    Wrenchman366
    On:
    Wed Sep 04 2024
    Sounds likema gret trip and wonderfull thing you are doing for your mother and fmily, i am glad you posted about going away and not posting for a while Lana i would have worried safe travels 🩷
  • From:
    Salamander
    On:
    Wed Sep 04 2024
    May your trip give you unanticipated pleasures and unexpected joys.
  • From:
    Ksmiley/LittleKrissi
    On:
    Thu Sep 05 2024
    These kind of trips are bittersweet and yet beautiful at the same time remembering days of family reunions and burials. It is a time to reminisce about family, too. I wish to say save travels to and fro. God bless!