lisa bielawa

my dear eve - among other things, this book has shown me that the full range of human emotional experience is present even at times and in environments of great trauma and oppression. we will continue to love and seek joy, no matter what our circumstances become. loved talking to you today - xo, lisa [bielawa]

"The people in the cities were as helpless as children in the face of the unknown - that unknown which swept every established habit aside and left nothing but desolation in its wake, although it was itself the offspring of the city and the creation of city-dwellers.

All around, people continued to deceive themselves, to talk endlessly. Everyday life struggled on, by force of habit, limping and shuffling. But the doctor saw life as it was. It was clear to him that it was under sentence. He looked upon himself and his milieu as doomed. Ordeals were ahead, perhaps death. Their days were counted and running out before his eyes.

He would have gone insane had he not been kept busy by the details of daily life...these were his salvation."

- Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago


	my dear eve - among other things, this book has shown me that the full range of human emotional experience is present even at times and in environments of great trauma and oppression. we will continue to love and seek joy, no matter what our circumstances become. loved talking to you today - xo, lisa [bielawa] "The people in the cities were as helpless as children in the face of the unknown - that unknown which swept every established habit aside and left nothing but desolation in its wake, although it was itself the offspring of the city and the creation of city-dwellers. All around, people continued to deceive themselves, to talk endlessly. Everyday life struggled on, by force of habit, limping and shuffling. But the doctor saw life as it was. It was clear to him that it was under sentence. He looked upon himself and his milieu as doomed. Ordeals were ahead, perhaps death. Their days were counted and running out before his eyes. He would have gone insane had he not been kept busy by the details of daily life...these were his salvation." - Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
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