2018-10-24 08:20
In Europe, it’s quite an ordinary things to use different garbage bins for different kinds of garbage. In Russia, such a thing was organized only in the cities where the WIFA World Cup… Read More
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2018-10-22 10:11
As Stanislavsky said, “while you are young, you should take a toothbrush and go where your eyes want to go”. So, last week we went to Uliyanovsk, Russia.
Everything is “s… Read More
2018-10-14 10:21
To read the article in Russian scroll…
On Sunday, I gathered all of my fourth-graders who I teach English and we went outdoors. Today’s event was devoted to the children’s… Read More
2018-10-14 10:09
To read the article in Russian scroll…
Yesterday I conducted a work-shop “The Influence of Music and Painting on the Inner State and Personal Development” for adults and c… Read More
2018-09-24 06:53
On April 21, the children gathered sprouted acorns in the forest. They brought them home and almost forgot about them, but … we didn’t give them a chance to do it.
As they had c… Read More
2018-08-06 22:38
It’s amazing how everything in nature struggles for survival. As if striving for something positive is originally built in: surviving in any case.
And what about the man? A wise man o… Read More
2017-05-28 22:18
I’ve just returned after a two-day trip to my native city, Nizhny Novgorod, the third largest city of Russia which in some nearest past was called “the third capital” due t… Read More
2017-05-12 08:58
When in most parts of Russia it is still snowing (though it is already May 12) and the bloggers, one by one, are writing how tired they are from the 7-month winter, we are happy to enjoy flo… Read More
2017-05-09 20:53
In the 90s, for me, then a teenager, May 9 was not a significant holiday. Rather, the day was associated with military songs performed by two well-known Russian singers … When our dau… Read More
2017-05-05 21:20
There are periods in life when nothing goes as has been planned. Meetings cancel, results are not gained, replies are delayed… And at this time the bridge to frustration is quite… Read More
2017-04-29 21:39
In 2011 I moved to another city and my life changed tremendously. Mostly because there appeared people in my life who we were sharing and are sharing now the same views on what the world sho… Read More
2017-04-19 05:40
19 April 2017
Seems winter has decided to strat again Read More
2017-04-10 22:15
One person said today, “I just cannot live without birds of prey!” This man, Alexander, is the initiator and motivator of the shelter for wild birds. I had not known before that… Read More
2017-04-10 22:15
One person said today, “I just cannot live without birds of prey!” This man, Alexander, is the initiator and motivator of the shelter for wild birds. I had not known before that… Read More
2017-04-08 23:10
“The man made a huge mistake when he imagined that he could separate himself from nature and that he might not reckon with its laws“. (V. Vernadsky, Russian and Soviet scientist… Read More
2017-03-05 19:55
In summer 2016 a friend of mine covered 23 500 km on him motobike literally speaking from the Western border of Russia to the Eater one. But that was not the whole thing. The intermedi… Read More
2017-03-05 19:35
I’ve just happen to find a pic which I saved on my PC 5 years ago – a picture with the words: “Make your brain creative“.
But the same pic can be also commented on wi… Read More
2017-03-05 18:13
“Any person in our life appears just in time when we mostly need the lesson he/she is carrying” Read More
2017-02-28 20:46
To get of a bad mood doctors and scientists recommend “switching off” your brain. A way to do it is to go travelling.
Researchers observed a group of people who walked about a f… Read More
2017-02-19 23:01
The day before leaving is unreal by its speed – just to collect all the strength in balance and as if to watch a movie – about myself: cooking breakfast, sending emails &nd&hell…Read More
2017-02-19 22:53
“No one returns from the journey the same as he has been before.”
(Curves on Hightway 1 Northern California) Read More
2007-08-01 11:29
photo by the author of the blog
Pure love, which enlightens us all, is the real quality of the Heart Chakra. In the unrealized state we rarely love for love’s sake. Because of o… Read More
2007-06-18 12:16
When we are following Our Path, the supreme power is supporting us. “It is called a Benevolent Beginning, – remembered he the words of the old man. – Beginners are l… Read More
2007-06-14 05:07
As I can see my post on the Painting of Buddha caused many ideas, questions and arguments. And all I have read in the comments made me dwell on the idea of all the religions depicted… Read More
2007-06-05 18:09
This picture painted by the Mexican artist Octavio Ocampo is called “Buddha” but what is the symbolism behind the peaceful face? Isn’t it what is meant by the word … Read More
2007-06-04 08:34
I was trying to remember some example from my life to illustrate the idea raised in “A Problem or a Motivation to Act?” It turned out to be quite a hard task for me as what was… Read More
2007-06-04 08:28
Today, while talking with my comrade on the phone about everyday life, I drew her attention to the fact that joy should be within, that shopping, discos, trips to other cities and countries… Read More
2007-05-31 19:05
June 1 is the World Children’s Day. And it has so coincided that I have started one more blog called “Children’s Land” (http://littleganeshas.wordpress.com) on child… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Garden of Flowers Do not go into the garden of flowers O friend, go not there. In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of lotus and there gaze upo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
About a year and a half ago, talking to an acquaintance via ICQ, I started the topic of the meaning of life. I was able to reflect my vision of such issues as life values, time, God… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On Saturday, we watched a movie “The Patriot” with Mel Gibson in the main part. Americans’ struggle for independence. Many families are ruined, houses are burnt. In the mid… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
What is your sweetest impression of the previous week? This question is simple but I have come across the fact that many people do not remember what they did at the weekend or last week (inc… Read More
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