Thank you for sharing the conversation with your friend in Kyiv. The mix of erosion of trust and the building of it is something I think about a lot, a la this line: "Some people I trusted and have the sympathy for I don’t even say hi to them. And the opposite too."
I had never heard of Ruination Day OR Gillian Welch before now, but here's twice within an hour! The other was from Garrett Bucks's White Pages: https://thewhitepages.substack.com/p/it-was-the-14th-day-of-april?s=r
Thank you for sharing the conversation with your friend in Kyiv. The mix of erosion of trust and the building of it is something I think about a lot, a la this line: "Some people I trusted and have the sympathy for I don’t even say hi to them. And the opposite too."