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A Chopin concert is in order, and Maria Korecka-Soszowska played a selection of magnificent pieces for our group. Her powerful performance concluded with the Grande Polonaise in A flat major op. 53. Frankly, the melody played on repeat in my dreams that night.
And, a shot of Polish Buffalo grass vodka, too, put me in sleepyland.
I’m standing near the Chopin monument, a replica of the one destroyed by the Germans during the war. As my guide said, “the music of their beloved composer could not be taken from their hearts even though the object was demolished.”
Check out the car, a relic of the Communist Block days.
Keeping up with my thoughts is difficult to process while I am on an ambitious trip such as this one. Ask me after I get home and I will have something to say of value I believe.
I am appreciating the viewpoints of those who are living in a Europe so different in the last thirty years. NATO is vital to Poland and the Baltic countries. The uncertainty of support from the United States as their number one ally remains in the forefront of their minds. Cyber interference. Russian relations. Nationalism. All those are issues, too.
