More magazine did a photo essay with interviews of the Russian women, most over 70, who returned to Chernobyl’s desolate, radioactive surroundings. Said one "when you live outside your village, you loose your soul." This is the world of the bubuskas - 80% women - tending their animals and gardens.
This article made me think about having an attraction to ancestral places.
Is it in my soul to live near mountains or with mountains in the distance as my ancestors did?
Nadezhda Tislenko, 71 "When this widow met up with more’s team—reporter, photographer, translator— she immediately called a neighbor, saying, “hurry, quick, come over. There’s interesting people here, and they’re not missionaries!”
