There might be war, and there is something we have that goes beyond it. There might be drugs, misunderstanding, selfishness and the loss of guiding principles, but there is something we have that goes beyond it all. There it is that makes us overreassured, completely sincere and admirably happy. There is something that makes us come true and ( Read more... )

Мои всё ещё прекрасные и до сих пор здоровые!

Хочу поделиться простым пониманием, которое на меня снизошло сегодня, когда слово "копец" начало описывать практически любую секунду в моем 20-часовом графике, и когда на мобильный мне позвонил один начальник, а на городской - второй. И я в коматозном состоянии Буриданового осла стояла и не знала, ( Read more... )

As it gets usual, I no longer write on my career achievements or failures, on the job proposals on the other end of the world, on unexpected innovative education conferences, on the US Naval Academy professor sharing the bathroom with me, on Stanford high society circles suppers, on life-work balance, on my driving experience or the experience that ( Read more... )

Я так долго и старательно приучала себя к жизни здесь_и_сейчас без ожиданий, конечных точек и терпения во имя большой цели, что реверсивная хроника событий текущего дня меня слегка удивляет - я вновь подсознательно живу ожиданием, конечной точкой и терплю во имя большой цели, забывая о вдохах и выдохах настоящего ( Read more... )

Neither the city nor the ocean inspired me to write for quite a while. That is because I was drowning in my own ocean and building my own city. Unexpectedly, it was yoga that made me feel like I want to share my understandings with more than one person again.

Funny enough, around one year ago my era of "enlightenment" began in the mountainous ( Read more... )

- Мы к вам очень долго ехали, просим прощения, - скромно извинилась девушка за себя и за своего сутуловатого коллегу.

- Да? - спросил, равнодушно улыбаясь, Главный Консультант «Дома Благоденствия».

Девушка выжидательно посмотрела на Консультанта и ответила тоном само собой разумеющегося факта:

- Но «ветераны»... Они же повсюду возле Дома. Как будто ( Read more... )

To begin with, I am in the fog. The fog surrounds me everywhere - both physically and mentally. My fog was getting almost liquid by the end of the second week in Pacifica. By that time I realized how very strange and hilarious my situation is - I stay in the mountainous house within driving distance of all big cities where I have no need neither ( Read more... )

I am pretty sure everyone who has ever been to America enjoyed this view:
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How soon do you start missing your country, if ever? I start doubting this feeling of homesickness can be attributed to a conscious, mature person. With years and little pieces of experience one starts realizing humans are humans everywhere in spite of all the artificial differences, one starts looking above the culture. I start recognizing this ( Read more... )

San Francisco happened to me today unexpectedly and after a great disappointment in the morning. This was my first big America. This was my first calm and absolutely conscious foreign joy after so many months. The feeling with no need of anyone and a desperate desire to share ( Read more... )