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Hi mom
Hello child
Tell me something about grandpa.
You can do your make-up, its fine.
Which one? Cezar?
Yes, tell something about him
He was very soft , strong but soft . Very Satvic
Never saw him angry or very irritated
Oh wait I did, I got one slap from him once
But that’s the only moment that I remember
In general he was immune to stressful situations
When Grandmother Tamara would make a scene he would just “get out of the frame”
And when he was coming back, she was calm again
He was a great deal of a man
He had an imperishable curiosity
Even news and innovations in medicine,
I was always “running in circles”: children and career
He would say -
did you hear about this or that?
Or he would ask me: “what composition are we hearing now?”
-Beethoven. He always knew
His connection with nature was his believe in God
He was claiming to be atheist, not believing in the “old man with a beard”
He was believing in nature and he grew in the forest and made us grow in and with nature
Even my cousins, although they where living next to the forest , It is him who was coming from the city to explore the forest
He knew the names of all trees , plants, birds and their nests medicinal plants from his mother that was the village healer, it was a hobby of his
In the encyclopedia that he was collecting, under the Russian names ,
He was collecting dictionaries
with his perfect script he would write the Romanian name of the bird
Синица – piţigoi (Titmouse bird)
I know the eatable mushrooms, the names of trees, constellations from him
In his mind of a physician he had space for music composers, astronomy, birds mushrooms and so on…
He was very attached to nature
He was nature himself, he could not be with ought nature
We would always have long walks, from Cotiujeni to Zahorna, we would
never take the bus
I was very little and I remember that in winter we would always stop in the middle on the forest,
even though the twigs and everything was covered in snow
He was able to make fire
and we would bake potatoes
in Spring it was clear, easy to make fire
As if we would be hungry
. We were just passing through one forest and a big hill to get to the other village but
by all means, we had to stop in the forest
bake and eat potatoes in cold and wetness in the middle of the forest
But I have never eaten better potatoes than thous
He had a lot of friends
he was interested in communicating with almost everyone
consisted from actors to alcoholics from the court yard
He would play chess and talk for hours
But what especially I remember his attitude of integrity , stability , safety
Whenever we would go out
I would just raise my head
and always encounter his eyes
confirming that it’s all good
i'm here
what can you say of his political activity?
He would never discuss politics with me
But for example: whenever I was talking on the phone in Russian
they would always manifest some irritation
They put me in a Romanian speaking kindergarten ,
although they had to drive on the other side of the city
They would not approve my friendship with Russian speaking kids
They had Romania, Moldovan even some Jew friends
but not so many Russians
But in those times, everyone was speaking Russian
They were trying to maintain this Romanian spirit from the core of the family
This state came from the repressions of the communists over Republic of Moldova?
I don’t know where did this spirit of national freedom came
Both of their families where effected by politics
but he was somehow the wakening element in the family
I remember they long and intense talks in the kitchen that could last a whole night
I remember moments when I was still in kindergarten
when the police car would come to the village and took him away
nobody was explaining me what exactly is going on
When I grew older I got more curious
I would sneakily get in the document cupboard
I would find documents of decisions from the Communist Committee
papers on his exclusion from the communist party, and the academia.
More of all this I found out much later
The only discussion that we had together
was when I finished high school
and had to enroll to the university when he told me
he told me not to be upset or take it personally
if I would not be accepted at the university.
And I knew why
You could feel this spirit of national freedom and anti-communist
There was always laughter whenever Brejnev was making a discourse
They would tell jokes about communists members between friends
But he was not alone in all this
so he assured that all this will not compel my enrollment