Georgia, Wales and Europe

[fpb]

This is something that occurred to me a few years ago, when Russia shamefully assaulted Georgia. Georgia is a small, distant country, with its own alphabet and its own church, and a language that nobody else in the world can understand. And yet, from everything I could see of it on the screen, I knew that I felt at home there. And I realized

Comments

[eliskimo]

Happy St. David's Day!

[fpb]

Cymru am bith!
"But I tell you, my lord, that when the trumpet of the great Last Judgment rings across the Earth, no other language than Welsh shall answer for this small corner of the world." (Gerald of Wales, late 1200s)

[shezan]

And my Georgian friends would be VERY HAPPY to read this!

[fpb]

Show it to them.

[shezan]

Plan to!!!

[fpb]

After all, one of my current heroines, the astonishingly lovely and luminously talented Miss Katlevan "Katie" Melua, is from those parts.

[deansteinlage]

A post worthy of GKC