I really like proverbs and motivational sayings. They are short and to the point. I believe there is no greater wisdom than when one can congest a whole philosophical debate into a couple of words. It is not simplification in the sense of demeaning the gravity of the substance that the proverb is trying to […]
Somewhere in between
Finally, the Covid pandemic seems to be drawing to a close. We are back in school and back to the office after 4 months of home-school and working from home. Despite the fact that I like staying at home as much as going outside, four months of restrictions and saturation of particularities of living in […]
Oyster Pirates and a Poet
It is mindboggling how a world can change in a 100 years. So much so, that an occupation that was infamous at the turning of the last century, not only does not exist in this century, but people have a hard time understanding what it actually is. An Oyster Pirate was basically a name for […]
Virus and Earthquakes
Happy New year 2021. 😀 aaaannnd, shit did not start positively, despite our high hopes. We have arrived to the situation that we have worked so hard to avoid – we got infected, yes with Covid-19. Although, my sinuses got inflamed too, to the point of bleeding, but I am not sure that is one […]
Special opportunities for a clear mind
Time flies by and my blog stagnates without any creative surge on my side. Even a swan photo-shoot on the snowy Ljubljanica river bank a few weeks ago did not raise my creative enthusiasm. Although I did enjoy it, despite my growing frustration at the performance of my long-lens. When one does not create, according […]
Of Swans, Lights and a Plastic Bottle
It is not even 10 am and I have already made a bean soup and managed to yell at my kids when they argued for a piece of cheese (like it is the last cheese on earth) and in the aftermath of my yelling they broke a saucer which made me break all accords of […]
Protected: The Fourth Box – Chapter 4
Protected: The Fourth Box – Chapter 3
A Migrant in the EU
Boba and other wonderful things
In times like these, we all need 40 good wishes and a song about how this too shall pass: We still got it! When we set our minds towards a goal, some really nice things can emerge. Well, this and also it helps that due to Covid restrictions we have quite a lot of time […]