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I see a blog as a type of open dialogue, or open diary, that a writer shares with her reader. Please forgive me if I do not post as regularly as I should, but I will do my best to keep you updated on my life, my thoughts, my projects.
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Laima Vince
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Translating Master Jin Mok's book on Kouksundo into English
Translation is a road between cultures. Today I had the great honor of meeting Master Jin Mok, Kouksundo Master, and son of Kouksundo...
Laima Vince
Oct 25, 20211 min read
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BirutÄ— Galdikas: "Without a spiritual attitude, the research you do simply does not work."
Birute Galdikas has dedicated fifty years to working in the field in Borneo, observing orangutans in their natural habitat. Today this...
Laima Vince
Oct 21, 20212 min read
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About the Creation of the Book of Love Letters: "Those Unforgettable Years," Edited by Laima VincÄ—
This morning, my mother, Aldona Simutytė Sruoginienė, sent a photo of our close friend, Nijolė Bražėnaitė Lukšienė Paronetto, holding her...
Laima Vince
Oct 13, 20216 min read
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1984
As I was driving to the homestead of the anti-Soviet resistance fighter and writer, Juozas Lukša, to attend his 100-year anniversary...
Laima Vince
Oct 13, 20213 min read
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A Lost Letter from Weight Watchers, 1975
This letter was shared with me by Liz Jaroslaw from San Francisco. Her father was the founder of Weight Watchers. Apparently, her father...
Laima Vince
Oct 13, 20211 min read
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Apie Nijolės Bražėnaitės ir Juozo Lukšos Meilės Laiškus ir Laikmetį...
Kalbėjausi vakar telefonu su Nijolė Bražėnaitė Niujorke. Ji džiaugiasi, kad išleidau jos ir Juozo Lukšos meilės laiškų knygą, „Apie anuos...
Laima Vince
Sep 30, 20214 min read
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A Play That Engages the Full Palette of the Human Soul
Last night I was invited to Solo Theater's premier, "Motinos Pienas" (Mother's Milk), based on the best selling novel by Latvian writer,...
Laima Vince
Sep 30, 20212 min read
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Antigone and Belarus
Perhaps the best way to witness the ancient Greek tragedy, "Antigone" is in the driving rain and cold wind as I did on Friday in the...
Laima Vince
Sep 26, 20212 min read
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Parallel Lives: October 9, 2020
Perhaps it is because I am a writer, and much of a writer’s work is to revise and to edit, I am continually tempted to revise my life, to...
Laima Vince
Oct 14, 20206 min read
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A Return To My Formative Years: Visiting the Lithuanian Gymnasium: October 5, 2020
Today I drove out to the Litauisches Gymnasium in Hüttenfeld, a small village in the Lampertheim region. I visited with Marytė Šmitienė,...
Laima Vince
Oct 9, 20208 min read
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We Have Not Yet Concluded Our Conversation, Wiesbaden, October 3, 2020
This morning I woke up to a glow of pink coming through the skylight in the dormer over my bed. I went into the kitchen and opened the...
Laima Vince
Oct 5, 20208 min read
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When Will I Be Free from History? Dresden, Saxony, East Germany, October 2, 2020
I awoke in my hotel room and it took a minute for me to get my bearings straight. I was in East Germany, the former DDR. This weekend all...
Laima Vince
Oct 4, 20205 min read
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Arriving in Germany from the Hinterlands of Europe
October 1, 2020 Yesterday, just shy of 10:00 pm, I rolled into the parking lot of Hotel Aviv in Dresden, after thirteen hours of driving....
Laima Vince
Oct 3, 20208 min read
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My Determination to Vote...
This is how determined I am to vote Trump out of office in the November 2020 Presidential Election... I am in Lithuania, so I need to...
Laima Vince
Sep 23, 20203 min read
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Tikhanovskaya's Press Secretary Talks About the Protests in Belarus at Vilnius Univeristy
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s Press Secretary, Anna Krasulina, Talks About the Situation in Belarus at Vilnius University Saturday, August...
Laima Vince
Sep 5, 20204 min read
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Joining Hands For Freedom
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya heading into her first press conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, on August 21, 2020. On Sunday 52,000 people in...
Laima Vince
Aug 27, 20202 min read
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A School Trip to Minsk in 2009
On Sunday I participated in the Freedom Way, a peaceful protest where people in Lithuania linked hands from Vilnius to the border of...
Laima Vince
Aug 25, 20206 min read
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The People of Belarus Protest for Their Freedom
When I translated Lithuanian resistance leader Juozas Lukša’s memoir of the resistance against the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in...
Laima Vince
Aug 23, 20201 min read
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