On Back to School September 29, 2008
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“Just one more week and we go back to Redmond,” said Anne. She was happy at the thought of returning to work, classes and Redmond friends. Pleasing visions were also being woven around Patty’s Place. There was a warm pleasant sense of home in the thought of it, even though she had never lived there.
But the summer had been a very happy one, too — a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen delight in wholesome things; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly, to work more patiently, to play more heartily.
“All life lessons are not learned at college,” she thought. “Life teaches them everywhere.”
三日坊主。 September 25, 2008
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Mikka bozu
“A monk for three days.” One who gives up at the first sign of difficulty.
外襤褸の内錦。
Soto boro no uchi nishiki
“Rags on the outside, brocade within.” You can’t judge someone only on their clothes or outside appearance.
賢は愚にかえる。
Ken wa gu ni kaeru
“Wisdom may masquerade as foolishness.”
薮をつついて蛇を出す。
Yabu wo tsutsuite hebi wo dasu
“Poke around in a bush and a snake will come out.” Let sleeping dogs lie. Leave well enough alone.
雨降って地固まる。
Ame futte ji katamaru
“After the rain, the earth hardens.” Adversity builds character
What a Day! September 16, 2008
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Yesterday I had to go to Sofia to deal with all the tedious bureaucracy of getting one’s room. And I had one of those days when all you want to do is damn everything and curse all the time. Well, it was not all that bad. I did get things done and managed to go home, but what a ride I had – the worse in my history of train rides and it is pretty colourful. Of course, the people were interesting, we had a nice chat, they were ok, thank heavens. But all the nerves I wasted, the sleep deprivation, the shit I had to take from officials – I barely made it. The waiting in lines, the moody first year students who had no clue what they were getting themselves into…the spiteful bus driver…and the half bare room…I have high hopes to get this room well, we’ll see about that. It was a rainy, gloomy day yeaterday. As opposed to today when the sun is shining brightly. An aftertaste remains – a reminder of all the stuff I have to do from now on. The responsibilities. The communication. It can be viewed as a good thing or bad, depending on mood. Today…it’s…ambiguous. I hope/apprehend. I am still set on making the best out of it. But it will require a lot of effort. So…til’ later. ≈
Dueling Guitars September 13, 2008
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This is one of my most favourite moments of August Rush – how a father and a son, without even knowing each other, can reach out to each other and see into each other’s souls through music, the magic that makes them the same…priceless.
Full Moon Concert September 13, 2008
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Yesterday I had the best time ever at the concert of the Music Idol starletts Yasen, Toma, Teodor, Denitsa, Nevena and Nora. The concert was in Haskovo and J.’s father gave us all a ride there. We went to the city fair where all was awful as at every other town’s fair, but later…the concert! Oh the breezy evening under that starry sky and the full moon…the amfitheatre and the stage…the sound operator…the stairs we were siting on…the hundreds’ crowd…the excitement…it was a once ina lifetime experience and at one point I remembered how I had a different offer for the night – a class reunion – and let me tell you, I did not regret not going not even for a split second! I wouldn’t change that concert joy for anything. Especially not for such a reunion!
What I loved most at that concert was the talent of the guys – they all sing incredibly well and are all very cheerful on stage, with lots of positive energy, spreading it over the audience and feeding back on the energy that very audience was dispersing. It was electrifying! Our little gang was the craziest in the party, I’d say. My sis, especially, rocked, and we all followed suit. My throat is hurting right now because I never kept quiet at all, I was screaming at the top of my lungs, so not like me, right…I guess I made up for all my silence through the year in that one night – I screamed toward the moon , rising my hands as high as humanly possible rejoycing in my being alive and here. I loved that the songs were all to my liking, all rock, all up-beat, all familiar, friendly, including stuff like Bon Jovi’s “Its my life”, Aretha Franklin’s “Respect”, Whitesnake, Mika, Robbie Williams and so on and so on… the best music I could wish for in a single concert under the stars. I bet I could never have that in any other concert.
And the performers all loved us so much, they were amazed at how vibrant the audience was, we kept on screaming for more way into the night…but alas, it was over at one point.
Our hands soar, our throats dead, our feet heavy, but our hearts full we walked back to the car, still singing the beloved songs, passing by strangers and laughing, we were brave and joyous, life is all about that moment.
This concet was the best thing that happened to me all summer and all year, and I hope there will be more moments like this one, it gave me a recharge to keep me going for a long time ahead. I’m alive. It’s my life. And everything is wonderful…♣
August Rush September 12, 2008
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Is by far the best movie I’ve seen this summer, the best musical and magical film I ever saw, I think. I have always adored Johnatan Rhys Meyers, and here is yet another proof of why. But it is the music, and the hope and the innocence of the story that really gets me. I wish I could see my life in such a pure and simple way and only make the best of it. A glorious art work, see it, by all means.
Something Beautiful… September 6, 2008
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I watched Fly Away Home today. I had long hadn’t felt so well…So here it is, experience it as well…
September, September… September 3, 2008
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Ah, this month! There is something in the air in September…some expectation, a bit of anxiety, the mixed feeling of a loss of summer and a fresh new beginning of the year. The air is kind of sharp, in a stand by mode, ready for action. In the first few days of September I feel like life is a wheel, and the wheel is slowly beginning to turn, to motion to a faster development. It will come soon enough, and that fact makes the feeling so much stronger, like every moment is precious, both long and short, just on the verge of something new, of a change.
Lately I am as always, it’s just my trip to aunt’s that makes it a bit more tense and bitter. She has that effect. It’s funny how blood relatives can be distant and hostile and welcoming and caring at the same time. Drives me crazy. Wish I could skip Christmas vacation trip.
The quietude and calm uneventfulness is to vanish soon. Maybe even tonight, when I’m going to a rock concert, amateur style. I have high hopes for the new school year. We shall see. In the meantime, I’m trying to remember his eyes and his smile. He is far away right now, and I am trying to miss him. Strange. I do miss him, but I also feel the time and space that divide us to make the statement “Out of sight, out of mind’ sort of true. Well, it can never really come true. I care too much.
September, September…the wheel is turning, soon to be spinning. I breathe the air of expectation. I miss him. I think I like this month, a little.
