I Am a Ukrainian video

We must stand up for freedom!

Sharing this video - my grandfather was Ukranian.  Sadly he died when my mother was little and we don't know much about his family.  He had come to Czechoslovakia to escape the violence in the Ukraine and my mother thinks his family may have been totally wiped out.  Sometimes, I wish I knew more about my Ukrainian heritage. 

Sky Shots

Photos I took of the sky on 2/13/14:

Audio Valentine

Sharing my audio version of 'Valentine' from the "Intimately Yours" cd with Chuck Berglund's soundscape with you on this Valentine's Day 2014:

 Audio version of Valentine

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day

My Valentine's Day gift to you...

Valentine

photo by AVR

 

Sweet romantic

Stuffed teddy bears

Dance with white-hot

Chocolate ribbons

Love flowers in

Crystal vases

Tissue paper

Pink and gold hearts

Branded not by

Cupid’s arrow

But kisses from

Red satin lips

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2007

Through the Looking Glass......

Sharing some photos I took - a different perspective on the snow and ice we've been dealing with:

White Out

With all the snow and freezing temperatures, this just seems fitting.  Some of you may wonder why I post audios of my poems to which I give you my favorite quote: 

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears."
Octavio Paz

Sharing, 'White Out' - I was trying to recreate the disorientation felt in the middle of white out conditions.

White Out Audio

photo by AVR

White Out

Tangled in the

artificial

light of snow

The glare of shrill

ice lamina

promptly blinds

The silent roar

of an absent

wind deafens

As you drown in

the emptiness of

vacant space

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2007