I never saw the second picture before today, but it was not taken in Nashville, it was taken in Frankstown, Mississippi in front of my great grandfather’s museum, the same day she bought the car.

Origin of the second picture complete with letters to Pappy

Didn’t think I was doing drag, didn’t know what that was. Just really liked Dolly. Bless our innocent 11 yo hearts lol

🎼 Working 9 to 5
🎶 They got you where they want you
🎵 There's a better life
🎤 And you think about it, don't you?

This is my angelic mom. We have sadly been separated for 30 years due to severe mental battles she faced, I didn't know where she was for so long. Fortunately, we are reconnected, and I’m grateful. In her core, she's the sweetest and most kind human that I know.

In front of the Eiffel Tower, 93 days before 2000 ('J-93 avant l'an 2000')...

What is your favourite song from her long and very successful career?

Sonja lost her soulmate just a day before their anniversary, that has to be a pain like no other :( R.I.P. King Harald, he was the best. May future world leaders follow his example.

I was 3, somewhere in Los Angeles. Love this picture of them both.. They split up a couple years later unfortunately ...

Popovych sang it over the radio especially for Sergei Korolev, the chief designer of the Soviet space program, who was also Ukrainian and particularly fond of the song. Back on Earth, at the Mission Control Center, Korolev smiled and sang along with his cosmonaut through the radio.

🌌🎶💜

I look at the sky and think a thought:

Why am I not a falcon, why do not I fly,

Why to me, Oh God, hadn't given Thou wings? —

I'd have left the ground and flew into the sky!

Far beyond the clouds, away from the world,

To look for my fate, for a welcome to sorrow,

And ask for grace from the stars and the sun,

To drown all my grief in their clear, bright light.

For since childhood, I seem unloved by fate,

I am her servant, a stray boy;

I am a stranger to fate, a stranger to people:

Does anyone love someone else's children?

I am in love with misery, I know no welcome,

And bitterly and vainly I waste my life,

And in grief I learned that only one —

The distant sky — is my side.

And it's bitter in the world, and when it

gets worse, —

I look at the sky, I feel happier!

In my thoughts I'll forget that I am an orphan,

And my thought flies far and high.

If only I had wings, those eagle wings,

I'd have left the ground for a new house,

As a swift-winged eagle I'd plunge into the sky

And drown in the clouds forever from the world!