We read Vācietis' poetry not by cosily curling up on a sofa (as with Čaks), but by going outdoors in autumn, sitting down on grass already covered in frost, feeling the already sharp north wind on our cheeks, lingering in the dim yet lovely autumn sunlight like a mother's caress. I invite you to do the same!
Any electronic device, including a mobile phone, emits electromagnetic radiation. Unlike other devices, however, a phone is often kept close to the body - carried in a pocket, pressed firmly to the ear during calls. This has led many to wonder how harmful - or perhaps harmless - mobile communication devices actually are.
Although the Riga City Council's environmental department, judging by its employees' statements, bears no responsibility for air quality and has no obligation to monitor or do anything in this area, the European Commission's threatening finger and MEPRD's persistent urging has nevertheless prompted A. Kļaviņš to reluctantly set about an action programme.
The local Rēzekne district newspaper "Rēzeknes vēstis" has a column called "Hello! RV is listening!" In it, the newspaper's readers, residents of the city and district, have the opportunity to call the editorial office and "get things off their chest". Some topics even develop into a "chat" where readers exchange experiences or "pleasantries" from issue to issue.
Passing the time while leafing through an older women's magazine at the hairdresser's, I came across an interesting article whose insights I would like to share with you. Russian psychologist Yelena Sulima has researched and described the connection between a woman's choice of clothing and how she feels on the inside.
In this article I have compiled the main differences of the Latgalian written language from Latvian, and provided examples of writing in Latvian and Latgalian. The main message is not for Latgalians to change their oral language habits, but to adhere to a unified grammar in writing, so that it is understandable and learnable for themselves and others.
From the document we can conclude that the cultural centre had a reconstruction plan drawn up, which had moreover at some point been approved. With the election of new political forces to the Riga City Council, the emphasis on cultural and space use also changed. In 2009, the Draudzība cultural centre became unnecessary for the Riga City Council.
Now it's the men's turn. Also five of the many things that men are better able to accomplish than women, rooted in male thinking.
In a television programme that inspired this article, four couples were invited and given the task of reading instructions on an A4 sheet of paper and following them. The results of the experiment confirmed that certain common traits among members of the same sex do indeed exist - but there will always be exceptions.
October is, of course, Čaks. A Riga man to the bone, an urbanist, a singer of drainpipes and street girls, a self-made man, the misunderstood lover with his heart on the pavement. I caught myself thinking that I enjoy reading poems not published during a poet's lifetime. Perhaps because they are the most truthful, most bare, unpolished. They have not passed through the censorship of the author himself or the publisher's editor.