flowing windows

A Canadian-born son of a Byelorussian-Polish immigrant who in a moment of awareness in an atmosphere of world tension during the Cold War was spiritually moved at a young adult age to undertake an adventurous and tricky 1973 roots-discovery trip with his father to where he grew up in the Old Country. And where he grew up was now part of the Soviet Union and being confronted with its contrating communist minuses-n-pluses atmosphere presented somewhat of a culture shock to them. Their train and long-haul taxi travels brought them to some secluded villages centered around the small town of David-Horodok founded around 1100. The location is in the heart of Belarusin Polesia known for its wetland wilderness and rich biodiversity and also known as 'the Amazon of Europe' or 'the lungs of Europe' because of the vast amounts of oxygen its forests and vegetation produces. Father and son were given a mind-boggling education of how most of father's family survived the terrible genocide of WW2 in this land of partisans. Juxtaposed in the narration is a comparison biographical sketch how his father and mother met in Windsor, Ontario and brought up their two boys while burdened with a sickness cross to bear...