It seems spring won't keep us waiting long this year. But along with the first sunny days, alternating with grey and rainy ones, spring fatigue sets in too. How to get through this transitional period and preserve your inner energy and zest for life? I'd like to share a few tips on what you could do to help.
In honour of the celebration of all lovers, I decided to compile poetry in the Latgalian language. It turns out this task is not so easily accomplished. Latgalian poets have gladly written and continue to write about the fatherland, the language, nature, the mother, God - but when it comes to feelings between two people, there is silence or a barely perceptible touch. As if it were not quite comfortable to speak of such things. And yet...
I have once again received an email from Silvija, and thanks to the photographs she sent, I continue to explore Mexico from afar. This time we can take a look at the south-east of Mexico - Yucatán.
We came across the lectures of Russian philosopher, theologian and philologist Leonid Matsikh in connection with the topic of Freemasonry. We watched the programmes with considerable pleasure, as the speaker is quite charismatic, with a rich command of language and well-formed views. Searching further for material from this wise man's lectures, we found two 2012 television programmes devoted to the role of women in shaping world history.
Grayson Perry explored the lives of various social classes in Britain to understand what these people buy, what they choose, what they prefer, and most importantly, what they want to say about themselves to the surrounding world. The result was that the artist created tapestries based on sketches with the most characteristic elements of each social class - colours, patterns, objects, and types.
Browsing the latest Oriflame catalogue, I came across an interesting toy and brain trainer - the Sudoku Cube. And I even have an idea who I could give it to as a gift. The Sudoku Cube is a variation of the Rubik's Cube that everyone has known since childhood, except that instead of the coloured squares decorating the cube's six faces, there are numbers from 1 to 9. The Sudoku Cube was invented in 2006 by American Jay Horowitz.
The holiday season is approaching. People often plan their long-awaited days off outside their usual environment - travelling. But circumstances sometimes arise where a flight cannot operate or is delayed or even cancelled.
Yesterday there was the opportunity to attend the "Future Leadership 2014" conference. My favourite speaker of them all was future leadership expert Pero Micic. Particularly interesting was his Five Future Glasses theory. His closing wish to everyone was - "Save will power!" Any small change in the present, any small decision or action, is later reflected in our future.
In this list I would like to share the films made and seen last year that we found to be good, based on the principle that they spoke to us from a philosophical, literary-historical or purely visually enjoyable perspective. Usually one casts a glance at such lists to reassure oneself that everything on it has already been seen.
One of the events that I think fits perfectly into the opening programme of the European Capital of Culture "Riga 2014" is the Book Lovers' Chain planned for this Saturday, 18 January, when books will be passed hand-to-hand from the old building of the National Library of Latvia to Gaismas pils - the new building on the other bank of the Daugava. The event will begin at 12:00 and will proceed in eight sections (see map below): Section 1 – Vērmanes dārzs; Section 2 – Merķeļa iela; Section 3 – Brīvības bulvāris; Section 4 – Kaļķu iela; Section 5 – Kaļķu iela/Kungu iela; Section 6 – 11. novembra krastmala; Section 7 – Akmens tilts; Section 8 – Akmens tilts at Gaismas pils.