I am not a football/soccer person but every time I come to Asha in summer my dad and I go see the local football team in action. I like the feeling of belonging with the other supporters perched on the wooden benches, a bottle of cold beer in hand, on this cosy stadium surrounded by [...]
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Out of Russia: Football game as a duty
Posted in Home, Out of Russia, tagged Asha, football, game on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Out of Russia: Asha from above, more visuals
Posted in Home, Out of Russia on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few pictures from the same vintage point, different directions.
Out of Russia: Asha from above
Posted in Home, Out of Russia on August 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It hadn’t rained in Asha for two months by the time I got there so I climbed up one of the mountains and offer a desperate-for-rain dance to the local gods.
The smoking chimneys on the other side of the river that at that point almost completely dried out belong to the local Metallurgical Plant. [...]
Out of Russia: Hedgehog in the Fog
Posted in Films, Out of Russia, tagged cartoon, Yuri Norstein, hedgehog, transformation, fears, stop-motion movie, delusions on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My short visit to Russia made me nostalgic of the good old cartoons we grew up with in the former USSR. “Hedgehog in the Fog” (Russian: Ёжик в тума́не, “Yozhik v tumane”) was never among my favourates when I was a child: it had no songs in it, hardly any words at all and although [...]
Charter for Compassion. Will you listen?
On November 12, thousands of people across the globe will listen together.A Personal Note From Irisha
Welcome to AR blog! What matters to me in this brief life is the exploration of what it is like to be human, learning to be present in my own life without the constant struggle - "to feel yet not to suffer" as Adrienne Rich wrote - and getting to know how my mind works, who and what I am underneath the layers of conditioning.
Here I reflect on how to be awake in the activities of life itself and on anything that has to do with practice on and off the cushion. I am happy to share the blog space with others who feel they have something to say about their practice.Reading
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I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am untrue.
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