She revealed herself to me as a woman who made her mutilated body an icon and her pain into art. This explains the many self-portraits, most of which were made lying in bed, where she imagined herself torn apart, with her insides laid open, overgrown with grass and vines.
I used to perceive this question as a certain lack of tact and also slightly as an insult, because since childhood I had been raised to believe that a gift is not only a material, tangible thing, but also an expression of love and appreciation and... also a certain secret, a surprise.
This evening, while preparing for a presentation, I had to poke around in the development of corporate blogs in Latvia. While the private blog or diary niche is flourishing and expanding with laacz.lv, journal.lv, onkulis.com, pods.lv, shulcs.lv, zuz.lv and others at its forefront (sorry, I won't list them all), companies appear to be very cautious about this. Corporate blogs in Latvia can be counted on one hand.
There are films that speak to you, and there are those that don't. "Elegy" (Elegy, 2008) is one of the former. Not so much for the age-old revelation that love knows no age, but for the aching sense of loneliness - the loneliness that a person consciously or unconsciously chooses for themselves.
So looking at it impersonally, without empathy, and guided purely by numbers, the question arises - where is the return on the investment portfolio (the child)?
What Paulo Coelho writes makes you step outside, if only for a moment, the daily rush, routine and enforced pragmatism of real life. It encourages you to look at values that lie beyond career, material well-being and social recognition. That is valuable - so you don't lose the ability to find joy each day in the work you do, the duties you must fulfil, the people you meet, the difficulties you overcome.
An angel is a friend, a husband, a wife, a colleague, a teacher (not just as a profession), any person with whom one resonates, between whom and you there is no indifference.
I discovered it quite recently, though in Russia and specifically in Vladivostok it has been known and in listener charts since 2006. The performers and authors are three young people - Миша, Люся, Тонек.
Already in the 19th century, plants containing essential oils began to be cultivated for industrial purposes. France became one of the leading perfume producers. In the 20th century aromatic substances began to be used in medicine, which meant that the properties of aromatic substances and their specific effect on the human psyche and body were rationally studied.
The largest database of Latvia's socially active group, moreover mostly with users' real names, surnames, dates of birth, location, real photos (not counting a few fake profiles) and opportunities for social discovery - photo album, diary, guest book, circle of friends, interests, etc. A portal that is constantly developing, delighting its users with ever new "toys".