I feel honored to greet you.

I don't know the reason you came here but I feel that this is not just a coincidence.

Welcome.

Let me tell some things about myself. ( Get acquainted! )

I can't say that I love giving names for the people close to me - I just do that, trying to express the best thing I see in this person. That's why here we have My Faraway Friend, Dan, Sparkling Ocean, Settler, Sandy, Wizard, Cane - and there are names coming, and I'm waiting for them to come ( Read more... )

This is what S.O. told me about a week ago, and I felt it as one of the most important lessons of the starting summer. Thank you, Sparkling ( Read more... )

The best lesson of May is the lesson of courage of talking directly to a person to whom I've got things to say - and towards whom I am the most silent.
Have you ever complained about your relationship with someone to a third person? If that sounds familiar to you, then it might be a sign that there are things you want to tell to that someone but you ( Read more... )

For a month I've been exploring what 'I want' is and the day before yesterday I felt that I reached a milestone.
[Let us define the notions!]

In most cases 'I want to do X' for me means not future simple or continuous but present perfect continuousI'm not talking about cases like 'I want to have a fruit salad for tomorrow's breakfast' or 'I want to wear this particular suit ( Read more... )

I'm announcing a severalminutes of fury.

No, I guess, I'm not all right. It's been a while since I last was this furious.
[Oh, how I'm not at my best]
Actually, I thought, maybe I'd better go to sleep, but then I felt that if I didn't write I would have crashed something in my room. Since there's practically no furniture, I looked at installed a week before brand-new shiny ( Read more... )

 I noticed the thing about people which is the most bewildering one for me ( Read more... )

From this moment of clarity, when I feel so at my best, I write to you from the moment when your world is falling into pieces and you are feeling that you can't face anyone at all ( Read more... )

I gave myself time till Sunday to solve it - and at noon on Saturday it was solved.

The koan as it is:
"I expect - The reality is not what I expect"

Consolations:

• oh, yes, "do not expect", which was Rule Number One not so long ago
• "it has to be this way"
• "this too shall pass"
• "let it happen with ease"

/it's the strangest feeling when you start ( Read more... )

Today, the day of Algebr's triumph of completing a Half, I have time to write of something which has been on my mind since first days of Karelia cycling tour ( Read more... )