Pilnmēness nogurdinātie - We are in this together

From: brookings Date: 16. Decembris 2011 - 10:50 (Link)

Oh, historical interpretation which was alive and realized (the yank/Latvian use of the word 'realise'). You could see it in the curbing painted in the colours of the Irish flag, in the 'celtic' tagged on to the name of any Catholic football team, and in her grandfather's answer to a British soldier on an army roadblock that he was from the Free State.

And, of course, after sizing me up (a protestant Brit that 'his' (he was the sole brother to leave for the mainland) daughter had picked up, they sat me down in the kitchen and made sure I understood their history, both grand (their history of oppression), and local (bodies in the farmyard).

Religion (lighting candles in the church), superstition (warts cured by the holy woman in the caravan), and the perception of everyday sounds (a backfiring car was a gun fired) all bursting for space in our everyday cosmonology.

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