Juliana Dever

Juliana Dever Instagram – What we do when we travel matters.
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My guests and guide and I all wore our Ukrainian nightingale pins to dinner in Batumi, Georgia 🇬🇪. I noticed two women at the next table that frequently looked at our table, but I assumed it was because we broke into song ha!
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As they got up to leave, one of the women approached our table and spoke to Natia (our guide).
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She said she saw our pins. She and her daughter were from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She saw our pins and the support meant everything to them. Then she gave us the flowers she had brought for herself.
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Batumi is a diverse town filled with so many different nationalities from Georgian to Belarusian to Ukrainian to Russian.
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And some might say a gesture as small as a pin doesn’t really do anything, or it’s performative, or not enough.
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But in that moment, on that night, in that garden, 8 women speaking English, French, and Georgian meant everything to 2 women speaking Ukrainian. The languages didn’t matter, or that most of us couldn’t even understand each other. It was the subtle statement of a single pin that said that you are not alone in this world.
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And it was a simple response of blue hydrangeas that said thank you, this is what I needed in this moment.
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What you do when you travel matters 💙💛
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#cleverdevergeorgia22 #standwithukraine #nowar | Posted on 08/Jul/2022 02:49:52