Original Art for purchase www.melaniealfred.com (waiting for an image)
Quote of the Day.'The advice of Jonathan Alpert, a Manhattan-based psychotherapist. "If you view travel as an adventure and a challenge -- including the long lines and delays -- then it can be fun," he says. His advice is to build in enough time to experience this adventure -- a cushion of time, "just in case there are delays." Avoid tight schedules and deadlines. After all, you're on vacation.
Comings & Goings
The MI Ts have gone on a road trip to Colorado. The G Family will be back downunder soon. Jarrah Kim arived safely. I'm heading North soon
Happy Birthday: AUGUST
GDAD: 9th. Me:8 on 10th (long story)thanks Bruce
Things I have learnt: I am not great in the cold. Chocolate is lethal for me. Pedicures/Manicures are really essentials! Ditto good haircuts.
"for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"
When Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was already an outcast in his native country, the Soviet Union. After the novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and a few short stories he had not been permitted...more
Every good reader has a book. You own it as much as the author does. You knew it was yours the first time you read it. Again and again over the years, you've turned to this book when you needed solace, inspiration, or perspective. Each time you've read it, each time you have opened at random to a page, you've found something that speaks directly to you. It's your book, after all.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is my book...more
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Tribute from BB in India
Russian literature lost it living legend, Solzenitsyn, yesterday. Imprisoned, exiled and scorned during the Communist era, he died happily as he wanted – in new Russia, in the summer, in the countryside – to touching tributes by Russians and rest of the world. .....He excoriated communist materialism and capitalist materialism, and was steadfast to artistic truth andenduring human spirit –in the traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church, Russian patriotism, ideologically close to Putin and Gorbachov. I still remember the sensations of reading “A Day” and “Cancer Ward” – bleak, slow, ordinary - but how could someone be so authentic, so true – how could he make me, far in away in tropical India, feel as one with his characters ?!
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