Personal Journal
MMXXVI / VASYL
As long as a person silently performs work above their position, their knowledge, responsibility, and willingness to help are convenient for everyone. But the moment they demand recognition, fair pay, and clear terms, the past begins to be rewritten, their contribution diminished, and a legitimate question turned into a refusal to work.
There are 148 amendments before the convention. I want to explain, in clear language, what they would change, why they matter and whether I believe they should be adopted.
... when nothing more can be added to what has already been said.
A 1999 newspaper clipping did more than preserve an election result. It preserved the beginning of a pattern that has followed me throughout my life.
A personal journal about work, rights, memory and music — held together without forcing a life into a single label.
Lutsk, radio, law, military service, Poland and Canada: not chapters that cancel one another, but parts of one life.
A union becomes real when people recognize themselves as its authors, not its audience.
Music is where questions can remain open without becoming vague.
An institution cannot be the author of a rule, a party to the dispute and the final judge of its own conduct.
Migration does not divide life into before and after as neatly as forms suggest.
A microphone makes one fact impossible to ignore: somebody else is lending you their time.
Every institution should notice who must live with its decision but is missing from the room.