Nostalgia attack

It took a movie "Little house on the Prairies" for me to realize that 2 years is a long time not to see one's family! The funniest part is that while i was crying over the fact my mom doesn't get to see her first grand child thousands miles away with 9 hour time difference my mom was calling me on the phone. Some ties can be affected by neither time nor space.

To My Yet Unborn Children

After the leading the charts "where are you from?" unfailingly comes "are you going to have another one?"...

I love you, oh, all my yet unborn children! you are all going to be smart & cute & absolutely adored one day! as for now, let mama play for a while

Angels

You want to write a poem about angels.
Not because they are winged and white and haloed
And in many paintings very beautiful
But because you have seen many things and remembered
Only angels...



...I don't necessarily have to see
An angel, I just want to see some wings,
Even a flash of them, gliding, moving
Up and out...




this one is fun:


...I suppose
The scenery gets dull, if you're
An angel. All that cloud and pearl.
There aren't chariots of fire
Every day, you know, and it's a long time
Between appearances in dreams.


(all extracts above are from "A Poem About Angels" & "Looking For Angels in New York" by Jacqueline Osherow)


...What a nice fall day it is today.
Sarah says days like this make her miss New York. I am too nostalgic for places & people i love but don't get to see anymore.
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Book

I ve found this book in a thrift store today: it's in a great condition & cost only 25 cents. The only problem with it is i can only guess what language it is written in (looks like japanese or chinese) Why buy? well...i was always wandering what my native language (russian) might look like to a foreigner...Just like japanese to me i assume.

...may be i learn it one day...

Forbidden Fruit

...not so sure it was an apple afterall...could it have been a forbidden cherry? forbidden papaya? a shell? some kind of drink? or a place she took him? ...i keep guessing

with love,
eve

LOCAL BEAUTY II

On some days i want to run far far away from this place to see tall buildings, hear the noise of traffic on the streets, to be shoved, pushed, yelled at & do some of the same thing myself...crazy?! Is it that the beauty & peacefulness of this place is so powerful it's scary & it makes me want to abandon it because i know (i see its work in the eyes of locals) this place is addictive, it ties you down & never lets you go. brings you back from travels. disappears you from the radars of city life. one big beautiful black hole. bermuda triangle.

READING DEPRIVATION

i m reading this great book called "the Artists Way" written by Julia Cameron. Its about "getting unstuck" creatively. she advises to use reading deprivation as one of the tools on the way to creative recovery. Since (as i know now) i ve been creatively blocked for at least about last 20 years i m eagerly following her advice. Shutting up humbly i am so you too can enjoy insightful silence.

...may be just a few pics:)