So, suddenly I post videos?

It's a little out of my ouevre, to post videos, I know, but I can't help myself! I stumbled across this and was so incredibly moved by it...

This is the winner of Ukraine's Got Talent (don't ask) and she is doing something called "sand animation". Basically she's standing behind a table that is covered in sand and lit from beneath. She is illustrating the bombings of Kiev during World War II...now, my knowledge of this is...well, nonexistent, and I imagine it would be even more powerful did I know the history and political import of some of what she's talking about, but the sheer emotional power of what she's doing is undeniable. One of the images that you'll see (thank you, Marianne Williamson, for explaining this so clearly in your blog) is a Ukrainian monument that commemorates the bombings she is talking about.

When the shots of the crowd come you see how cathartic what she is doing is for so many of them...because of the beauty and release she is granting to something so un-beautiful, so publicily and with so much GRACE (something that's been on my mind a lot lately--grace.)...and it doesn't hurt that she looks like a Ukrainian audrey hepburn meets charlotte gainsbourg.

Watch it, through to the end, you won't be disappointed.