I´m working on a poem that´s so true, I can´t show it to anyone. I could never show it to anyone. Because it says exactly what I think, and what I think scares me. Sometimes it pleases me. And this poem says exactly what I think. (Lloyd Schwartz)
Friday 31 October 2008
Something More..
Baking, Drawing, Tasting
The first problem was that I had to cut the "pumpkins" out by myself, so the shapes are the way they are (my grandfather: "Oh honey, they are so cute. What are they? Small rockets?" - I love him anyway:-)
The cookies looked the way they looked, but they were really tasty (luckily) and were eaten in a very short time.
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I haven´t been posting any recipe yet so let´s change it. Here you are:
Thursday 30 October 2008
Skywatch Friday
Yesterday the sky was a bit angry again, and grey almost all day long. But in the evening its mood became a bit better and some clouds appeared.
And there were like two layers of the clouds - the white ones (which were higher) and the black clouds (which were under the white ones). And because the sun was just setting, the orange colour appeared on some places and the result was this:
Doesn´t it remind an angry face with two orange eyes to you (the Halloween is coming...)? But it vanished after a while:
.. and the sky was quite clear again. Just few crows were flying over.
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To see some superb photos of the sky all over the world, visit the Skywatch site.
Tuesday 28 October 2008
"Knock, Knock" "Who´s There?" "Halloween!"
Sunday 26 October 2008
Doodles, and Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
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To learn more about the plots (but beware the spoilers!) and characters of Artemis Fowl series, go to this wiki site. There is everything, of course:-)
And to find out more about the great Eoin Colfer, you can browse his official site.
Thursday 23 October 2008
Skywatch Friday
This is the view I had today from the staffroom in the primary school I teach at. It was took about noon. And the sky was pretty gloomy and made the whole world dismal as well.
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These photographs were taken about four o´clock in the afternoon from the stuffroom at the second school. I was lucky that the weather turned fair. Even the sun appeared and made the world happier place with the sharper shapes.
I am curious what the weather was around the whole world, and I am sure you are interested as well. So let´s check the other people´s skies at the skywatch site!
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Wednesday 22 October 2008
Blog for Peace
Join The Revolution
(1) Copy this into a post (2) ADD YOUR NAME to the bottom of the tag list(3) Tag at as many people as you'd like.
In less than three weeks bloggers from all across the globe will blog for peace.We will speak with one voice. One subject. One day.Won't you join us?
Tuesday 21 October 2008
Flowers for Algernon
Published by Harcourt Brace (1966) and by Bantam Books (1967). Reissued in the Harcourt Brace Modern Classics series (1995).Have you ever thought about what it would be like to have an IQ of about 68? How would people treat you? How would you feel about yourself? Would you want to become "smarter"? If someone you respected came to you and told you they could make you smarter, would you take them up on their offer?Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, but he also knew he wasn't nearly as bright as most of the people around him. There was even a white mouse named Algernon who outpaced Charlie in some ways. But a remarkable operation had been performed on Algernon, and now he was a genius among mice. Suppose Charlie underwent a similar operation...
"HUGO AWARD" for short story, "Flowers for Algernon," 1959,
"NEBULA AWARD" for novel version, Flowers for Algernon, 1966.
(www. http://www.danielkeyesauthor.com and http://www.thematzats.com)
For more information go to see the article here, for one of the reviews go here, and to download the novel for free let´s check this site.
Note: Just a small comment on the spelling and language used in the novel - don´t be surprised while reading it. Yes, those mistakes are there on purpose. Keep on reading and you´ll understand.
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Sunday 19 October 2008
Giving Flowers
Thursday 16 October 2008
Skywatch Friday
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The skywatch group is the finest group of talented people and you should visit the skywatch site to check their photos. You really should do so. Really, really, really!!
Wednesday 15 October 2008
Autumn Leaves and More Wedding Photos
I went shopping with my sister and Smallone today afternoon. As we were walking the streets in the centre of our town, I realised that there was something wrong. First, I couldn´t understand what was it. Then we were passing a small hillock of fallen leaves and I got it. There were no fallen leaves anywhere except that hillock. And walking the streets I miss them cracking under my shoes.
Here are some more photos from my sister´s wedding. They were took by the professional photographer.
Smallone loves umbrellas:-) Anytime she sees any, she needs to open it and hide under it. The day when the wedding took place, the weather forecast wasn´t very good, so she secured herself:-)
My sister and her husband also walked on the leaves...
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Friday 10 October 2008
The Dual Personality and Kendra Stout
The picture above was drawn by Kendra Stout (http://www.evileherbivore.deviantart.com/)
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Thursday 9 October 2008
Skywatch Friday
I haven´t been posting the skywatch photos for three times since today. It was "thanks" to lots of work, preparations for my sister´s wedding, and even more work. But now, everything´s got stabilized and here is my skywatch post.
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There are some moments in your life when you look at the sky with worry and apprehension. Then you pray for the better weather for a while, and look up again, now gratefully with a cheerfulness in your heart, because the sun shines again.
Well, it is usually not so easy, but last Saturday it worked. It was my sister´s wedding day. When I woke up that day I looked at the sky and was ferrified - the black clouds were heavy and it was raining cats and dogs. I felt so sorry for her.
But when we were arriving to the chateau (where the wedding ceremony was held), suddenly the rain stopped falling from the sky. The clouds were still black and grey, but there were no rain any more, and my sister and her then future husband could be photographed in the garden of the chateau without being soaked to skin.
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All these photos above were took by my brother-in-law´s cousin´s girlfriend:-) Her name is Vlaďka and I thank her for them a lot.
This skywatch is not so good or interesting as the skywatch by the others (they are amazing), but that day the sky was so kind to my sister an her husband that I´ve had to share it with you:-)
Wednesday 8 October 2008
Two Quotes by G. K. Chesterton
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To learn more about the author of these two beautiful quotes, click here.
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The End, the Middle, and the Beginning
Monday 6 October 2008
Today´s Poetry
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life.
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
John Masefield was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire, in 1878. He was orphaned at an early age and, after a brief period at the King's School, Warwick, was educated aboard the Liverpool school-ship Conway. As an apprentice, Masefield sailed round Cape Horn in 1894; as a result of sickness, he was classified a Distressed British Sailor upon arrival in Chile.After convalescence in England he secured a new position in New York. Although he crossed the Atlantic, he never reported for duty. He later noted, "I was going to be a writer, come what might."After a period of homelessness and vagrancy, bar and factory work in America, Masefield returned to England in 1897. His first published poem appeared in a periodical in 1899. The friendship of W.B. Yeats provided encouragement, and in 1902 Salt-Water Ballads was published. A distinguished literary career followed, with work across a broad range of genres.Masefield was appointed poet laureate in 1930, and awarded the Order of Merit in 1935. He died in 1967; his ashes are buried in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.(from http://www.carcanet.co.uk/)-If you are interested, you can find more Masefield´s poems here. For more information about his life and work, visit this site or this pages.-
Friday 3 October 2008
My Little Sister
Tomorrow is my little sister´s wedding day. She is so nervous that she didn´t sleep yesterday night and perhaps today night she won´t sleep as well. But I know everything is going to be fine, she is going to be the most beautiful bride ever, and even now it is raining, tomorrow the sky will be cloudless.
My sister is a smart, lovely, kind, generous and beautiful person. She can be quite wry but I like it about her a lot. Maybe because I am the same kind. She is always able to make me laugh, her sence of humour is brilliant.
I remember the day my parents brought her home from birhing hospital. I was so curious and she was so small and sleepy. And more sleepy. It is one of my first memories ever. I was three.
We also invented a very special game called Gargling. Do you remember sweety? Each drank about three litres of water in about one hour. We were laughing and soggy. And it was a great fun.
Here we are with our maternal grandmother. After our parents divorced, we (me, my sister and mother, and my mother´s parents) spent a wonderful week at the hired house. The week was so relaxing and fun. We played cards every evening and night and we enjoyed ourselves a lot.
This photo was taken in our family friend´s shop. She sells bikes and things connected with them. She also has two spaniels (as you can see) and they are very friendly and nice dogs. My sister is always willing to dedicate her time and smiles at anybody. She is very friendly and sociable. So this photo is very typical for her.
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When she finished secondary school she moved to lived with her boyfriend. It was quite hard for me to hadle the fact she wouldn´t live with me anymore, but I had to get used to it. Luckily, she lives about 10 minutes far from us, we visit each other very often and we are even closer now, when she has a daughter, my sweet niece. I must say she is a wonderful mother, so patient and so loving.
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And today (it is after midnight already) she is getting married. I wish she enjoyed herself today. And I know she will. Even she will be very nervous I know she will.
I love you, honey. And even you have a child, and even you are getting married, you will be my little sister forever.
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