Поэт в России меньше чем поэт (пародия на Ирину Акс)

Поэт в России меньше чем поэт. Не думай, что связав чужих два слова, Ты создал что-то новое. О нет! Нет нового. Ни доброго ни злого Нет гения. Пусть ты писал весь день – Сожги в печи. Не слушай бога ради Других поэтов «браво» – это тень, Ничтожества и в их худой тетради. Интеллигент? […]

Fun with F-words

Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali. It’s Friday and F-words are on my mind. Flow Are you in the flow? That’s my new mantra. […]

Zen Ma – The Moon Door

The moon in the water; Broken and broken again, Still it is there — Chōshū (Trans. R. H. Blyth) Whilst being warm soft pillow for our dog companion, I decided to write something. That must have created a gap, or opened a door, thru which supporting information started coming in. On the phone, there was […]

The Fairy Tale Country of the Merpeople

Originally posted on The Fairy Tale Dimension:
Merbeings, creatures that are half human and half fish, are fascinating. There are countless stories all over the world that prove this. We can find them in ancient fairy tales, in northern mythology or in modern TV adaptions. For example Oscar Wilde published a story The Fisherman and…

Show Compassion not Pity

Originally posted on The Fairy Tale Dimension:
I have been thinking about writing a blog article about compassion for some time. My work with refugees triggered my interest in this subject. I learned a lot about compassion in the last years and I want to share some of my personal insights here. We fairy tale…

Saturnalia, Baba Yaga and the Tooth Fairy

Saturnalia What best way to meet Saturn than to come to its own personal holiday – Saturnalia. Romans celebrated it with flair: public banquet, followed by private gift-giving, continual partying, and carnival atmosphere that overturned Roman social norms: gambling was permitted, and masters provided table service for their slaves. In Justinus’ Epitome of Trogus the […]

Limitless – Lunar Nodes and NZT

The film – and then show – both named Limitless, attempted to show what happens to us when our mental capacity is enhanced and our entire memory database is at our disposal. Kind of like getting brand new laptop with super fast processor, huge memory and amazing HD graphics. One particular implication was that regardless […]

Eclipse on August 21, 2017

I was waiting on Steven Forrest's take on this eclipse, and as always his article was filled with insight. As I reposted it everywhere I could, some friends asked me what I myself thought. Several comments came out of this challenge, and this is one of them. North Node in Leo, South Node in Aquarius. […]

Ода Чечевице

Написано для друзей в трепетном ожидании блюда. Что глядим в бестолковые Передачи и лица? Чудо есть – “мотыльковые”, Не бобы, чечевица! Надоели пельмени? Рестораны, девицы? Подошли перемены? Начинай с чечевицы! Все Непальские горы, Все Индийские сари, Чечевицы узоры На Турецком базаре. Сдуйте облако пыли, Вы с Брокгауза Эфрона. Чечевицу любили От окопов до трона. Где […]

The Twelfth House

The mysteries of the twelfth house