Reality of Awan

History of Winter Etude london. I stood by the river.  The sky above it shimmered with all shades of gray, breathing the cold indifference of pale clouds.  Somewhere in the distance a milky fog curled. I looked at this cold water, which was closer to the horizon colored with ink, like the sky in the midst of a thunderstorm, which is about to be struck by lightning.  Freshness flew in the air, and I tried to breathe it in as deep as possible. I walked closer to the water.  The sand crunched underfoot, and its microparticles were something like the stars that I tried to watch every night.  Near the shore, white ice floated, in which gray clouds reflected. At my right foot lay a rather big stone.  Something fluttered inside me, and I slammed the top of my foot on it.  It hurt.  I hopped on my left foot.  A nerve impulse passed through the whole body.  It was like an electric current.  But nothing could pierce me like her...

Said as I thought.. In Soviet times, they gave me a free ticket to the Polish People’s Republic.  The tourist group consisted of thirty people - five men, the remaining women.  One of the men was a participant in the Great Patriotic War, in years, we all called him Grandfather. Once we were taken on an excursion to the Westerplatte peninsula in Gdansk Bay at the entrance to the port.  There the Second World War began.  In 1966, a monument to the heroes was erected here. We took pictures near the Soviet T-34 tank mounted on a pedestal.  Opposite the tank, on the field, were concrete caps dug into the ground.  They were broken and distorted.  We asked: - Who defeated them - the Germans, when they attacked? The guide replied: “No, it's yours when you went to Berlin.” They didn’t liberate Poland, you see, but went to Berlin.  The Poles fought with the Germans for less than a week - and on the seventh day surrendered.  Inside ...

Bell calling to god. For many years in our village there was a ruined single-domed temple of red brick.  Old-timers said that everyone who knocked the cross off him after the revolution ended their days poorly. About ten years ago, a priest, Victor's father, was sent to the village.  He had to overcome many difficulties.  It was necessary to raise and rebuild the temple.  Establish church services.  At the same time, the priest had to live in a small wooden hut without amenities.  And for this house, thanks to the kind people who presented it to the church parish of the village. After the first service, in which the priest offered prayers to God, he said: - Alone, I do not have the right to conduct service.  We need singers, readers and other assistants.  I volunteered to find singers.  But it turned out to be difficult.  One has a voice, but no desire.  The other has a desire - there is no voice or hearing.  The t...

Reflections on Life Priorities u.s.a It would seem that only everything more or less settled.  Solutions were found for big problems, of which life consisted of a series, and light appeared at the end of the tunnel.  But no.  Still, the train. Just yesterday fell asleep calmly and serenely.  A clear plan that would help get out of a difficult period worked and did not fail.  And the morning met the sun and birdsong.  And there were ideas, and there was lightness, and everything seemed ... seemed to be solved . But here is a surprise.  Where did not wait.  A slurred introduction, it is difficult to understand what it is about and what is the matter, and when the meaning comes, it seems that the Earth has stopped.  But they forgot to cancel inertia. Like a bicycle, when for the first time out of ignorance, I pressed the hand brake too hard.  Flip forward and hard landing.  So tough that you feel stunned.  The air you...

I was fatherless, living with my father I grew up with my father.  I almost never heard about my mother.  My father changed a lot for the worse when I just raised the topic of my mother.  Of course, I was wondering who this woman is.  But I did not want to quarrel with my father. We had a strange relationship with my father.  He did an excellent job with his duties: to feed, clothe, put on shoes, help with school.  But these were things that, in principle, the child does not particularly want. But as for something more, my father seemed to be gone - he stubbornly ignored me, did not pay attention to me, did not play with me. Once, when I was little, we went with friends to the river.  Word for word, and as is usually the case with childhood accident and negligence, our raft sailed from the shore.  Naturally, by accident ... How much fear and horror we experienced then - we cannot convey in words ... But this is not at all about that. ...

Blind grandmother.. I met a completely blind grandmother absolutely by accident right on the street.  It was like that.  I took the child for a few hours to a private kindergarten, and at that time I was walking nearby.  And then I see, an old grandmother with a cane is walking towards me, with whom she constantly taps, as if she is probing the ground.  In one of the places she suddenly slowed down.  I went to her to find out if everything was in order, and if she needed help.  Granny was delighted and said that she was going to the supermarket to buy groceries.  I said: “Let me accompany you.”  She happily agreed.  I took my granny by the arm and we went. As it turned out, she does not see anything at all.  Absolutely.  Complete darkness.  But nevertheless, regularly, even if it is snowing, even if it rains, goes to the street and visits the store, which is located two hundred meters from the house, and sometimes even...