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Fish on Head

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Hello God!

Thank You for the 1st of April. In France where I live now we are celebrating April’s Fish Day – Poisson d’Avril! The traditional prank is attempting to attach a paper fish to the victim’s back without being noticed.

I am celebrating today and joking with a fish on my head.

I took this photo in Sète, France – sculpture by Cristina Manolagas-Rabaste.

Upon her head, a sight to see,

A fish-shaped hat, quite finny.

With scales that shimmer in the light,

And eyes that seem so squinty.

Pablo Picasso “Seated woman with fish”

At parties, she’s the talk of all,

Her chapeau makes a splash.

Yet when she walks by cat-filled halls,

She must make a dash!

For felines think she’s brought them lunch,

And leap with hungry glee.

She laughs and says, “It’s just a hat,

No seafood here, you see!”

Bellany, John; Woman with Fish on Head; Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh); http://www.artuk.org/artworks/woman-with-fish-on-head-225010

Though fashion critics raise a brow,

And some may shake their head,

She wears her fish with pride and joy,

A trendsetter for Today!

Thank you for your smiling eyes. Happy 1st April! Have a joyful day!

Spiral of Time

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Hello God!

Thank You for the golden twist of the spiral of time which allows me to return to your eyes and to write my words here. The spiral represents continuous evolution, cycles, and transformation and I am happy and brave to invite you to my circle of transformation.

By spiral of time, AI has created, I am returning to you, I missed you very much.

When applied to time, the spiral suggests that history does not merely repeat itself, but revisits similar energies and themes at higher and deeper levels. We do not simply circle back to where we were before—we return with new awareness, bringing past experiences into an expanded future.

I invite you in the transformational shamanic circle. By the sounds of the tambourin of Yahn-Loú Renard we are opening the gates of the powerful spirits of East, West, North, South. We are unifying ours energies and the unseen world of spirits are opening. We are here with the gifts for them: milk is for the East, vodka is for the North, biscuits are for the West, and tangerins are for the South.

I am asking the spirits to free myself from 108 blocks, toxines, parasites who prevent me to express my creativity with you and our world. I do the staff of mourning. Here I am writing out from my bones, blood, body, field the words-fall of mourning for my old myself.

Death of my old self is inevitable. The staff of mourning are made of my 108 blocks, toxines, parasites. The Spirit of North accepted the vodka and by its immerse power of winter he expels malevolent entities and liberates me and my creative way.

I am creating the staff of prayer and gratitude. I am automatically writing my gratitudes in Russian, English, French. There is no logic and beautifully structured sentences, my heart is writing by my hand:

God and Universe, thank you for our future knowledges, countries, concerts, paintings, books, buildings. Thank you for our delight and admiration of Arts. God and Universe, thank you for our planet and your blessings to born here. I accept and enjoy your gifts today and always. Thank You!

I decorate my staff of prayer and gratitude with the feather for light delivery to the sky. Divine forces of Creativity are fulfill my way. I have the right to inspire you, to support you, to heal you. I am important for you, for God and Universe.

I have reborn with new and sacred knowledge through our ecstatic experience. We restore harmony between us and the cosmic order. I am returning to you, I am with you and I am For You.

Thank you for You!

Covid-19 is Baobab

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Hello God!

Thank You for my healthy lungs. At this moment I am breathing full and freely. But I do not know how I will breathe tomorrow. How will breathe my family, my friends, my planet at the next moment? I need to do something to help You, despite maniacally washing my hands and checking the body temperature of my family.

“Merci, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,” I have inspired, “Merci for the idea!”. For overcoming my fear – I am transforming it in the Baobab. Covid-19 is the Baobab. Baobab is gobbling beautiful dolce vita, Baobab is dancing dead flamenco, Baobab is crunching Big Apple. We all are living in the catastrophe of the baobab.

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“Before they grow so big, the baobabs start out by being little,” I am reading in “The Little Prince”. Biologist David Goodsell has been painting “Molecular Landscapes” watercolor interpretations of the microscopic goings-on in cells. You see, his coronavirus painting depicts a virus as it enters the lungs.

It looks like a flower. My fear is transforming into a flower? Strange but nice feeling, I see my fear in its face. The Baobab is microscopic, our lungs are fragile and we can predict nothing but the microscopic seed of the fear of the Baobab we “must destroy it as soon as possible, the very first instant that one recognizes it,” Little Prince advises.

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“Now there were some terrible seeds on the planet that was the home of the little prince; and these were the seeds of the baobab. The soil of that planet was infested with them. A baobab is something you will never, never be able to get rid of if you attend to it too late. It spreads over the entire planet.

And if the planet is too small, and the baobabs are too many, they split it in pieces . . .”Happy lungs

“It is a question of discipline,” the little prince reminds. The golden rule we all know by heart is “When you’ve finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care.” With the greatest care we should clean the fear from our minds, because with the power of our minds we allow to our lungs to bloom beautifully free from the baobab.

“You must see to it that you pull up regularly all the baobabs, at the very first moment when they can be distinguished from the rosebushes.” Little Prince knows how to save us and our planet.

Do you afraid the baobab? You know what to do, see the golden rule above and watch this film.

Thank You for your fearless breath. You are brave, strong and beautiful.

 

 

 

Easter Muse

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Hello God!

Thank You for Easter we are celebrating today!

I am blessed by a possibility to invite you to Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice where I have found the Muse Polyhymnia! The Muse inspires us to write and sing a Hymn to Easter! Hymn to Life! La Polimnia.JPG Polyhymnia – greek “the one of many hymns”, also spelt Polymnia. Muse Polymnia is the creation by Italian sculpture  Antonio Canova.

“The most heavenly serenity and calm to be fond in the face of this statue, the elegant and youthful forms of which are united to an overall majesty that is fitting for a Muse”, writes Leopoldo Cicognara in Lettera Sulla Musa Polimnia

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“Polyhymnia is on a hinge where she turns with the breath of air that blows when a windows is opened, and the pressure of the little finger of a damsel produces a marvelous effect”.

The effect is in the lifting of the energy to live and to create, celebrating Easter in a happy new way. We are inspired by beautiful Muse.

Polyhymnia

And my heart is singing the Hymn!

All creatures of our God and King,
lift up your voice and with us sing
alleluia, alleluia!
Thou burning sun with golden beam,
thou silver moon with softer gleam,
O praise him, O praise him,
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

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A writer of hymns is known as a hymnodist. We are all a hymnodists now. Inspired by Polyhymnia let’s go at the table with a pen in a hands or with harp, lyre and lute. We are creating the Life in an infinite ways.

And you now “It should be simple and metrical in form, genuinely emotional, poetic and literary in style, spiritual in quality, and in its ideas so direct and so immediately apparent as to unify a congregation while singing it”.

Happy Easter! May the Muse Polymnia inspires You for Today and always!

April Fish!

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Happy April!

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Hello God!

Thank You for the 1st day of April. I invite you to celebrate today in charming French custom concerning this holiday.

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The story goes that in 1564, King Charles IX of France passed the Edict of Roussillon, decreeing that henceforth the year would begin on January 1, instead of April 1. But some people failed to hear about the change and continued to celebrate the New Year on April 1. Therefore, people played pranks on them, making them April fools.

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In France the fish is the primary symbol of April Fool’s Day. The association with fish is a bit enigmatic, but likely has its origin in the plentitude of young and easy-to-capture fish found in their rivers in April.

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During that time, the 1st of April coincided with the end of Lent when the Church forbade Christians to eat meat. Fish was tolerated and was often used in the offering…

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Spring Equinox

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Hello God!

Thank You for Spring. Today we are celebrating the Spring Equinox.

At this year the Spring Equinox comes with a special bonus prize. For the first time since 1981, there is a full moon on the very same day! It means we can manifest whatever for right now and the bountiful flow of harmony will bring it soon!

I know the platform where the cosmic connection between heaven and earth provides the antenna which amplifies the energy of your wishes. The place is the Sundial on Parnidis dune in Curonial Spit.  Just close your eyes and feell yourself in the centre, near the antenna.

sundial.JPG The Sundial is a calendar, designed on the basis of the traditional gnomonic (science of the sundial design) principles and invoking modern mathematical techniques. It was made by an architect Ricardas Kristapavicius. A professor Libertas Klimka assisted as a specialist in the fields of astronomy. A sculptor Klaudijus Pudymas was responsible for creating an artistic part of the project. The Sundial was built in March 11, 1995.

There is as obelisk in the centre of the square, decorated with the symbols from the traditional festivals and phonological events from the rune calendars. A shadow as a clockwise makes its daily circle, falls from the obelisk built in the centre of a platform.

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Spring Equinox sculpture expresses perfect equilibrium – dark and light, masculine and feminine, inner and outer.

This time opens the flow of abundant fertility of the Earth. The Sun is gaining its strength, the days are becoming longer and warmer. The world is coming alive and the energy of the Spring Equinox is expansive and exuberant. The force of the Spring revs up and gives to our dreams a solar-powered boost. Please touch the Sun and feel the energy. You are fulfilled by it now.

Runa.JPGThe Sun that has counted time for millenniums caresses the stone runes with its rays.

From the astronomical point of view the Parnidis dune is an ideal and unique place for this Sundial where opens an absolute mathematical horizon. Only there you can see the sunrise from the lagoon and the sunset to the Baltic Sea.

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The granite is engraved with celestial luminaries and graphics of eternal route. Each line of a scale is dictated by the rhythms of nature.

The stela sheds a shadow on the system of stairs, in which the steps are raising up to noon. One step signifies one hour. The rows of lightest stone steps signify months, rows of grey stone equinoxes and solstices, and black stone the dark time of the day.

Once destroyed by a storm, the Sundial again shows the time that flows unceasingly here, between the sea and the lagoon, as if the grains of dune sand in the wind.

The drone flight video shows this unique place where the flowing time could be felt physically. We can imagine how the shadow of the obelisk is inexorably moving along the scale, and every sunrise and sunset is a great cosmic event on this platform.

We are living in the great cosmic event right now. Open your eyes, the antenna has provided the powerful energy of Spring Equinox which is flowing bountifully inside You now. Thank You for sharing it with me and the whole world.

Happy Spring!

Requiem for 50

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Hello God!

Thank You for Your Infinite Belief in us, humans. And sorry for our short memory.

The Breivik’s lesson was not fully learnt. We had had another one in New Zealand. The price is 50 innocent lives taken in the moment of praying.

The Requiem is for 50 lives and it does not matter that they were at the mosque.

We are humans.JPG“What are we doing, humans?”, I am reading our desperation in the sculpture by Jose Cobo. 

It is hard to understand but the killer was growing among us. He is a product of Western education which is based on the best humanitarian ideas. I am almost sure that his grandmother had sang him a lullabies and they were in a church at Sundays. He lived in a good house and worked as a personal coach in a fitness-club. Good middle class life he had. What was the trigger for him to became white “supremasist” and kill people? The paranoid desire to be great, celebrity? Had millions likes on social media page?

We are desperate because we will never know the answers.

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The photo, Calvari Steps in Pollensa, Majorca, visualizes the way we should climb up together overcoming desperation and pain. With the burning candles by the accords of Lacrimosa dies illa  – “This tearful day” we are ascending the stairs of mourning to the stairs of feelings of humanity, wisdom of understanding, virtue of accepting.

With great music we are uniting our beating of hearts. Laa-cri-mo-sa – we are singing together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79wnLwVTNW4

To watch the video is difficult because of pain but a new lesson we need to learn.

Tomorrow morning in a crowded metro we will help to a mother in hidjab with a pram,  we will buy this strange kebab with our habitual cup from Starbucks. We will be surprise by a grateful smile of a woman and we will feel a new taste of unknown, but delicious now, kebab. And by baby’s steps we will stop growing up a killers and any kind of “supremasist”.

Samuel Huntington was not right. There are no Western, Orthodox, Islamic and etc. civilizations. We are Humans Civilization.

Lacrimosa dies illa
Qua resurget ex favilla
Judicandus homo reus.
Huic ergo parce, Deus:
Pie Jesu Domine,
Dona eis requiem. Amen.

George and Katya

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Hello God!

Thank You for Valentine’s Day.

A beautiful song by Russian bard Juilii Maitus and poet Evgenii Breitigam “On the Sleigh” is for your loving ears. The painting by Ludwig Blume Siebert is for your loving eyes. And my translation is for your loving smiles.

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George and Katya were amusing by themselves in the winter time.
On the sleigh they were riding from the icy big mountain.
And when the sleigh was dashingly flying, scraping through the snow,
George had whispered her quickly: “Katya, I love you.”

Katya was terribly confused and did not know how to be,
Maybe it is seemed so, because the wind could make a joke.
And she had told him timidly without looking in his eyes:
“I would like to ride this slide again…”

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Oh, by the way, I have found this cake in the grocery story “Eliseevski” in Saint Petersburg for our special occasion. Please take a piece and enjoy a continuation of the story.

We all need be happy and have fun in winter time…
Once again the couple began to descend from the icy big mountain.
And when the sleigh had dashingly flew down, the moment came,
George had quietly kissed Katya.

Katya had again confused, could not understand
Maybe – she thought so, the wind had howled again.
And she had timidly told him without looking in his eyes:
“I would like to ride this slide again.”

And when the sledge had dashingly flew down again as an arrow,
George had whispered her quietly: “Katya, be my wife.”
Katya was not confused and the wind was silent,
She had blushed and laughed and said: “Ok.”

Thank You for your beautiful ears, eyes and smiles. I live for them and I love you!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

 

Snowflake Anna

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Hello God!

Thank You for Now. I am celebrating the moment with a cup of tea and beautiful and light dessert Pavlova.

It is snowing and looking through the window is a great pleasure. The scene behind the glass is as in the Bolshoi Theatre, where ballerinas are snowflakes. Oh, I see the snowflake – prima ballerina Anna Pavlova. How she is beautiful! How she is light!

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With the paintings by Anastasia Vostrezova and my photos of the dessert I am sharing with you what my thoughts and feelings are about now.

Anna Pavlova says: “Somewhere in every one of us, no matter how deep it may be hidden, is a latent germ of beauty… We dance because this germ of beauty demands such expression, and the more we give it outlet the more we encourage our own instinct for graceful forms.”

Snowflakes have a graceful forms. Dessert Pavlova is the baked graceful form on the plate.

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This airy dessert made from crisp meringue shell topped with whipped cream and fruit. The story said that the dessert was created by the chef in Wellington, New Zeland when Pavlova visited there in 1926 on her world tour. Australians claim that they created Pavlova dessert.

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Obviously “People have been doing meringue with cream for a long time, I don’t think Australia or New Zealand were the first to think of doing that” I agree with a restaurant critic Matthew Evans. But Anna Pavlova was a superstar adored by all the world. As a result, a lot of chefs named their dishes after her.

Anna inspires: “I have realized that true art gives joy not only to the artist but also to the people, suspending them for a moment from life’s sorrows. In this I see the great significance of art, and the awareness of this became the aim of my life.”

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Sweet, crunchy, and meltingly soft the dessert mimics her tutu with light-as-air fluffiness! The outside is crispy and the middle is soft like a marshmallow…

Oh, really I am on the heaven of taste immersed in the clouds of thousands of snowflakes dancing in the sky. The ballet I am watching is mesmerizing, the moment I am living is sparkling.

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Snowflake Anna has silently landed on my shoulder and whispered: “Happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.”

Anna Pavlova dances “California Poppy” – watching Beaty makes being beautiful.

Thank You very much for sharing with me your precious moment of your life. I do hope you are just a little bit happier now as I am.

 

 

Contre Le Vent

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Hello God!

Thank You for the Wind and the Sea. I invite you to severe November Curonian Spit, where the wind tells the truth about his nature and the sea opens a new dimension of  the storm. And a hero’s journey begins.

“Follow Your Bliss” – Sol-sol-sol-me flat!  “Contre Le Vent” (or Against the Wind in English) – Fa-fa-fa-re now I am singing the 5th Symphony by Beethoven.

“Follow Your Bliss” was the motto of Joseph Campbell. And by my opinion he knows everything about hero’s journey.

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“Contre Le Vent” (Against the Wind) sculpture is about a hero’s journey. You can found it in Lithuania, Curonian Spit sand dunes.

Joseph Campbell said that the great life is, basically, one hero’s journey after another. Follow Your Bliss – Contre Le Vent, then again Follow your Bliss – Against The Wind, and again until the end. It is the Destine’s Theme from the 5th Symphony:Destiny theme.png

SevereFace.jpeg Joseph Campbell writes: “Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There’s always the possibility of a fiasco. But there’s also the possibility of bliss.”

I see a really strong man in the sculpture. He must be very courageous, as Beethoven, to follow his bless, against the North Baltic wind.

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Joseph Campbell inspires: “What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth.”

Do you accept right now that you are the gift to the world? I dare to become a sign and a signal for you. We need to be a beacons for each other and go and live our hero’s journey.

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The sculpture seems to be alone. But it has his creator, it inspires. I had a long journey to see it. The Destiny’s theme from the 5th Symphony I had felt its pulse there. And this Pulse, this vibration of the Sculpture make me believe to Joseph Campbell – we are never alone, in every myth we live there are a helpers, a magicians, a wizards.

Beethoven’s 5 Secrets are for you for today!

Follow Your Bliss – Against The Wind! Follow Your Bliss – Contre Le Vent  – in French way it will be easier, I know. Love your smiling eyes.