Whenever we talk about goals, one question inevitably rises: what if you are not reaching them? Say, you have a noble goal, and your mind is all set on it, but, in spite of all the effort, you’r...
As we know, failure is not the result, it is an attitude. We are conditioned, however, to take every deviation from the result we wanted with all our hearts and minds as a failure. It may take years b...
William A. Bougereau – The Abduction of Psyche For the Quotes on the Front Page today I chose a beautiful sonnet 22 by William Shakespeare. Although it speaks of the age difference, I pay but a ...
Lake District 9, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I‘ve just said that I shall miss Welsh hills and rivers, but the lakes and mountains of the Lake District match the place of Wales in...
Caernarfon Castle, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. No matter how long I will stay away from the UK, one thing I will always miss is Welsh hills and rivers. I’ve been to many places i...
You have probably heard about Moscow’s atrocious traffic jams. I have to visit my house 30 mins earlier because I must allow for the fact that it may take me 10-20 mins longer to get from my hou...
In this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. Giacomo Casanova, The Story of My Life. The illustration in this post is a page from Casanova&#...
Richard Rothwell, A Portrait of Mary Shelley Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos. Mary Shelley, the English writer....
I ventured to the north of Moscow today, near the VDNKh – the famous All-Union Exhibition Centre. By the time I was going back home via the same metro station it was snowing heavily, and I could...
Not unlike Paul Arden in his book, I failed to find a better caption for this photo, so please feel free to offer your ideas. The photo is that of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow. The balc...