Small treasures....

Here are some of the small treasures I found during this weekend:
a little bit of Mozart...

 a little bit of religious music.....

 a little bit of Mozart once more, I guess it's obvious who my favourite is.....

 Jackie was curious too!...

 a little bit of Gheorghe Zamfir...

 of course a little bit of rock!....

 And these are my gifts from last Christmas: sweet Bach Christmas music:

And ...what else? Mozart again!

 Here's a little sneak peek at a small part of my library: of course it's a mess:

 just as my nightstand is:

 And here is the gift I made myself for Christmas...or was it Easter?? Daruieste-mi aripi (Give me wings/Schenk mir Flugel) by Heinz Janisch

 a wonderful, wonderful book...

 I just looove the drawings...

....they make me smile! I hope I could make you smile a little bit too!
Until next time,

Bisous!


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There is much pain in knowledge

All my life, or as long as I can remember I've dreamed of being born in another time, long befor today. Just now have I realised that if it had been so, I would have probably been dead by this age, or my spirit would have been at least. I can't imagine my life without my books, without curiosity and desire to know everything. I can't imagine I would have been otherwise, even if born 2.000 years before. Just now have I realised how the life of a woman from as near as the dark ages would have been; a woman wanting to learn would have been hated, and maybe  even stoned to death, if lucky. How is it that, blinded by my love for ancient books, have I not realised until now that I would have probably had no access to them? Why is it that the religion I was born in and I truthfuly believe in pushed women aside? why were we denied knowledge? I have only one answer for it: "Because truth will  set you free!"

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                                                                              Agora.




Bisous!

The day I got my imagination back....

It's been such a long time since I've forgot how it's like to dream, how to emerge into a dream, a story, and to live it with all my heart; like during my childhood, with the same sparkling eyes. Ididn't even realize when it faded away, I just found myself not being able to feel that warmth which pourred inside my chest each and every time a good deed made me lose a tear and smile gently towards the book I was reading or the movie I was watching.
When did I become this cold and serious person? seriosity is the last thing I really need in this world. Who was it that said that we shouldn't take ourselves to serious or we will never get out alive??
In this meantime I've lost the capacity to forgive and forget, the capacity to regenerate, to go back to the good and innocent roots.
I didn't even realize it came back to me. My childhood has come back while watching a movie, or maybe reading a book...
I don't even really know, but what I do know is that after years of living in the shadow of past feelings, suddenly these are back, and that  familiar warmth is back.
Only stories can give us that, only they can take us back to innocence, to the goodness we've forgot, to the ability to dream. For where would we be without dreams?

This came to me last night while I was watchig The Chronicles of Narnia- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Why did I wait so long to watch it? I must say everything happens for a reason, maybe I wasn't ready yet to receive its message. A wonderful story, now I have to read the books! 


Wishing you a happy Saturday!
Bisous!

friday...finally!

At last it's friday, after a hell of a week, and not in the good way!
       But fortunately this weekend I will have some time for myself and catch up with some things I've been missing, like the 4th book of A song of ice and fire, Latin and my sweet lessons blog, which I inted to update alot.
        I am also going to Raca, to meet my sister and my two lovely nieces, Teodora is going to school!!! first grade already! I can't believe how fast they both grow, Flavia is already saying my name! and a few other words which sound so qute!!!
       I've already bought some presents for school for Teodora, sweet Le Petit Prince notebooks, special for Ist grade, pencils, colouring pencils,a pen, all very sweetly coloured so that my brilliant niece will love school!
       For the start in this huge journey which school is, I whish you, Teodora,  all the best, the curiosity to know everything, te desire to be the best, the power to learn from the good and to be yourself without hesitation!   one day she will be big enough to read these words!

      On another note (sic!), today my favourite and only radio station is celebrating it's 20th birthday! I'm so inlove with this station and its presenters with their great knowledge and beautiful soft voices that I've even posted a small article on scrieliber.ro ! I'm shure life would be such a lonely and dull place without this genre of music!

photo source: classicfm.com.uk

Love you Classic Fm and Happy 20th Birthday!


Have an awesome weekend,
Bisous!

time crisis....

          Have you ever felt like you had no time to do anything for yourself? Well, that's how I feel lately, although I'm doing exactly what I want, but I don't really have the time to enjoy it, or to do everything that I would like to do.
For example, I would like to work as a volunteer, I have already contacted an organization, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to keep my promise, although I am very tempted to try and work with them. I would have to translate from English to Romanian, which is easy, but still occupies alot of my time, and I don't want to take on some responsabilities without being shure that I can honour them.

On the other hand, I need to write more on this site (last night I was writing at about 12.00 o'clock!), because it gives me much satisfaction, but I don't want to neglect this blog and my other blog either.

So, I'm in a little bit of a problem....how should I manage working 10 hours a day, and writing, and translating?? Is it that I'm not managing my time the right way?

I find myself in this illustration by Tim Burton!

Beside the all- above, I have one boyfriend and three cats at home, who all need my attention, food and cleaning -up. And on top of that I have alot of friends whom I adore and also need some attention from time- to -time.
I bet I'm not the only one having this problem, but as my blog tends to become a public journal I needed to virtually scream this out loud...

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I would also like you to meet our newest addition to the family: Jackie! Don't let yourself be fooled by the qute appereance, she's the devil in disguise!

And in the end, I found out that I want this:

very very much; of course this French edition with the author's illustrations! I can only remember the snake swallowing an elephant and looking like a hat from the lesson I've had sometimes in my second or third grade, but still it had a huge impact if I can still remember it, after more than 20 years! After a few searches I found out there is an entire site dedicated to French books! Yupeeeee!!!

Well, that's it for today...
Bisous!

Saturday morning happy feeling...

I'm writing ....I'm writing.......! I woke up this morning suddenly with these two verses of T. Arghezi ringing in my head:
"Nu-ti voi lasa drept bunuri, dupa moarte,
Decat un nume adunat pe-o carte".

and my translation would look like this:

Upon my death I only leave thee
A written name- a book upon.
                                                        (this translation is my own and I assume it as is!)

This will be the starting point of my new adventure....

This whole thing about writing...it is all infact about self confidence, about the fear of what others will say; or if they will mock you or admire you. Both will bring such intense feelings within you that it is worth trying, even just for the sake of the feeling; to express yourself. This is infact expression: testing the waters, in order to see the judgement of others. You may say that you are writing for yourself, and it is true, but then you would be only writing down ideas- after all it is you who created them in your mind, so you should be able to remember them. But no, you are expressing yourself nicely, with well thaught words, which shows that you like eigther defying or delighting others.
I'm also somewhere inbetween those two feelings; and so I will continue writing until I will have it figured out.

As you can see, I'm feeling much better than yesterday, my sales are up and I have started voyaging again! Have a wonderous weekend!

Bisous!