Gundega, asked about the reasons why people choose to keep pets, was as honest and blunt as in the book: "Some want to care for someone, while others want to feel superior and to dominate someone, if they have such a need and cannot achieve it in real life."
If you have one horse, then you have one horse, which, it is true, grows old with time and becomes unusable for work. A completely different story is with money. If you have one hundred lats, then with those one hundred lats you can purchase a certain number of goods or services. A year from now you will also have one hundred lats, but the number of goods you can purchase with them will have changed.
This time Silvija's photographs come from the Montafon valley in Austria - specifically from the alpine ski resort of Silvretta Montafon. Downhill skiing is simply one of those ways of travelling and holidaying that will never be my choice. Yet the grandeur and timelessness of mountains has always enticed, captivated, and even slightly frightened me.
National Geographic appears to have got really fired up this year and, in the form of its TV channel, has put on yet another exhibition featuring works by Latvian photographers - "My Amazing Latvia". Overall, from the broad concept of "nature", the authors chose to depict only flora in their photographs, with rare exceptions where the dominant subject of the composition was either a person or an animal.
"Nature enters the shopping centre" - that is how one might describe the "National Geographic" magazine photo exhibition "NG Icons" at the Domina shopping centre. On view is Steve McCurry's "Afghan Girl", and there was a certain fascination in seeing Jim Brandenburg's "White Wolf Leaping" from 1986 in person.
Wearied by the saccharine speeches of politicians and occasionally of officials, I was unable for nearly a year to obtain a meaningful explanation about the smelly air in the port area. This week fate was favourably disposed and generously presented the opportunity to speak in person with the Environmental Service's "busy lady". There is indeed such a one there. :)
Yesterday, when the news broke that I. Ziedonis was no more, many on Twitter retweeted a fragment of his poetry. I liked that. As if one after another, hundreds of glow-worms lit up in a nocturnal meadow.
Looking for ideas for the Friday evening of 8 March - which I want to spend in a special atmosphere - the concert "Latvia's Best Dancers" planned at the Riga Congress Centre caught my attention. The event promises to be special, as over two hours it will feature various dance styles: ballet, ballroom dancing, contemporary dance, belly dancing, rhythmic gymnastics, breakdance, salsa and rock'n'roll.
The colour orange - that is warmth, energy, success, positivity, and zest for life. This colour seems to say: I want to be friends with you. Orange is best expressed in details, and also in furniture - sofas, armchairs, and settees. But there can be an entire wall in this colour, provided the space is large enough not to feel overpowering.
What cannot be done during the day can be done at night, thought the Penguin. Comfortably settled in the computer chair, he began pushing lines of code across the wide computer screen. Here adding something, there deleting something. Until at one point, awkwardly leaning back against the chair's backrest, the chair's armrest broke with a loud crack. The chair's backrest became limp and unusable.