THE HILL > I have come this far on my own legs, missing the bus, missing taxis, climbing always. One foot in front of the other, that is the way I do it. It does not bother me, the way the hill goes on. Grass beside the road, a tree rattling its black leaves. So what? The longer I walk, …
Read More »FALL ON YOUR KNEES – Novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald
It is a story of inescapable family bonds, terrible secrets, and of miracles. The start, beginning in Nova Scotia, through a battlefields. James Piper sets fire to his dead mother’s piano and heads out across Cape Breton Island to find a new place to live, knowing Materia Mahmoud, and he becomes increasingly frustrated by her resulting strange behavior. http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Your-Knees-Oprahs-Book/dp/0743237188
Read More »ANDREW WYETH, (1917/2009), AMERICAN PAINTER – The man who captured the heart of America
PAINTING WITH EMOTIONAL STRENGTH – Andrew Wyeth: the subtle, insinuating and captivating world of colors
ANDREW WYETH 1/4 – He was born July’s day, and its family was always close, spending time reading and fostering a closeness with nature. He painted in a realistic way, as a son of art, by the father. For a long time, he was snubbed by the official critics as an eccentric and solitary painter, plagued by a sentimental attachment …
Read More »THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN – Novel by Paula Hawkins
Maybe, often you happened to observe people from a window, imagining their lives. Rachel – the protagonist of this novel – whose life (apparently perfect), has recently been shattered, she observes two people every morning, for a few minutes (from a train window), and that couple is become for her an obsession. Those two people, living to her old house. …
Read More »THE BOOK OF EPHRAIM – Poetic collection of James Merrill
“The Book of Ephraim” is the first of three books that make up “The Changing Light at Sandover,” the masterpiece of one of the most important American poets of the late twentieth century, James Merrill (1926/1995). FROM THE BOOK OF EPHRAIM Admittedly I err by undertaking this is its present form. The baldest prose reportage was called for, that would …
Read More »AMERICAN ROADS MUSIC COMPILATION – Waiting for the first weekend of August
Some service station, where to find the classic pretzel “Homer Simpson”, along with a good coffee. Small countries that emerge between the green meadows, each gathered around their “main street”, with old abandoned farms. During the first weekend of August, all of this changes, because by all the Member States the streets are invaded by 500,000 Bikers gather in a …
Read More »VLADIMIR KUSH, RUSSIAN PAINTER – The metaphorical realism: made by colors and dreams
WHEN THE METAPHOR IS NOT LIMITED ONLY WITH THE FORM OF LANGUAGE – Vladimir Kush, metaphorical thinking
VLADIMIR KUSH 1/4 – He was born near the Sokolniki forest, loving the great artists of the Renaissance. Elephants with giant tubas for faces, and white sailing ship approaches harbour on a calm sea, they are its personal way to the metaphorical realism. VLADIMIR KUSH 2/4 – Graduating the Institute of Fine Arts, traveling in Hong Kong and Hawaii, Germany …
Read More »IT’S TIME, MY FRIEND, IT’S TIME – Poetry by Aleksandr Puskin
What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way (the Vitruvian approach to life), also reading a poetry, like that. IT’S TIME, MY FRIEND, IT’S TIME It’s time, my friend, it’s time! The heart calls for peace. Flying day after day, and every hour takes away a particle of life, you and I, the two of …
Read More »THE LIBRARIAN – Novel, by Mikhail Elizarov
That geometrical way of the mind, could live with where joy, surprise, expectations and approval. Also reading this novel (THE LIBRARIAN – Novel, by Mikhail Elizarov), you need to temember that what you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way: the Vitruvian approach to life. At the dawn of Perestroika, around particular books by countless names, …
Read More »CULTURAL LANGUAGE OF THE MUSIC – In Russia, as in a mirror, rhythms and instruments are confronted with ideologies and ways of thinking
Every culture has a musical language – proper and specific – made organization of sounds, rhythms and harmonies, sounds, instruments, forms. Through a Glass Darkly, ways of thinking and ideologies, beliefs, customs and environmental characteristics, form a sound image. Welcome to Russia. Russian Folk Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4iDAqTglzQ Classic Russian Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8&list=PLskQgFCAVAwrfd40myrHbxr35VQncU7Z1 Modern Russian Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDUWvMF-31E&list=PL8439319F2A7BE5FF
Read More »13 DAYS AND 12 NIGHTS – Your Russian river cruise
Hermitage in St. Petersburg? Nice, also with comfortably equipped ships for your journey. Russian river cruise (between St. Petersburg and Moscow), enjoy the culture, history and sights of Russia at a leisurely pace. Yes. Yo can visit opulent palaces, fortified monasteries and beautiful cathedrals, discovering Russia’s unique history and culture, traveling on the water. (11 guided tours with audio headset …
Read More »WHAT YOU FEEL, ALSO INSIDE YOU EAT – Welcome at the Moscow’s Turandot restaurant,
What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside the Meeting Benches way to travel: the Vitruvian approach to life. Our dinner in Moscow? I thought of a truly unique restaurant concept which continues traditions of the court festival culture, the Turandot. Fantasy palace, with authentic objects, keeping the memory of the past centuries. It is the example of …
Read More »WHEN MUSIC BECOMES POETRY – BLUE VELVET, by Bobby Vinton
BLUE VELVET – Bobby Vinton She wore blue velvet, bluer than velvet was the night, softer than satin was the light from the stars. She wore blue velvet, bluer than velvet were her eyes, warmer than May, her tender sighs, love was ours. Ours, a love I held tightly, feeling the rapture grow, like a flame burning brightly, but when …
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