Talking to my sister is a horrible excruciating experience. I don’t even know how to describe it. It is innate and she wants to talk for hours about her shitty life in a town that is full of radiation and people get cancer. Both my mom and she had cancer. My mom passed because of it. But she is in…
A month before I take possession of my house! Can’t wait. Although occasionally I get a nervous feeling that I made a mistake mostly it feels like it was the right decision. My mortgage will be less than the rent I am paying right now and significantly less than what I would have been paying after lease renewal. There is…
Mellow day today. I don’t have many of those and generally move a lot through different tasks during the day. But it is Sunday which is a day of rest. So be it. I am reading “Killing Commendatore” by Haruki Murakami — one of my favorite writers of all time. So far it is mysterious and interesting as he writes…
Well, Biden is here. I have never thought that I will experience immediate relief once Trump was out of office but I did. It seemed that I could breathe a little easier like the weight have been lifted. I am not particularly fond of Biden especially after listening to this podcast: https://theintercept.com/2020/01/30/does-joe-biden-have-a-corruption-problem/. But I’ll take it! In my opinion, all…
Wanted to post something because it is 20/20. My dog nowadays won’t go outside until I give him a full body massage. I don’t know where it came from. Maybe he had a conversation with one of the dogs he played with on a grassy field and here it is. I am being held hostage because it is not like…
Beautiful day today. It’s pretty cold in the morning but with sunshine. Just like I like it. Reminds me of early Fall in Alaska. I walk my dog with pleasure on such days and try to stay outside as much as possible. Surrounded by beautiful colors of trees preparing to shed their leaves which makes the air brighter it is…
For the past several days I’ve been fighting with a spider in my apartment that weaves his net at my head level on the balcony door. Every day I free my door from the intricate work of the spider and every day he restores it to its former glory. I am afraid it’s a losing battle. Outside of my apartment,…
A friend posted this in his newsletter called Katexic: https://katexic.com/ Elie Wiesel in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech: “I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lies are endangered, when human…
I started this painting piece couple of days ago, and at the time it felt marvelous creating it, putting paint on, making marks, scraping, dabbing. This physical part of painting is very much like a kinesthetic thrill or a runner’s high. We don’t talk much about art regarding physical motions of an artist. We often speak of meaning, the possible…
