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Inspired by Lulu, Emma, Jen, Alyssa and, well, so many others that have done this. I thought it was a cool idea, so I thought I might do one too, so here goes:
1 – I have lived in 5 countries in 5 continents. I’ve also traveled to 96 cities in 15 countries (I’d like this to be 60 by the time I’m 60). I grew up in Africa, but spent most of my childhood in Costa Rica.
2 – My favorite childhood movie was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. My favorite childhood cartoon was Tintin. I still love both to this day. I’m so glad that Peter Jackson is thinking about making a Tintin trilogy! My favorite book of all time is Animal Farm.
3 – I’m a bit of a geek at heart. I love tech stuff. I taught myself programming at the age of 10. I was assembling computers by the age of 12. I currently have 6 computers at home, 4 of which I built myself. [okay, enough of the geek stuff. Don’t want to scare you all away]
4 – I’ve always wanted to play the piano. I took lessons briefly in college and in SF. I showed up to my my 3rd piano class with the sheet music for Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody #2 and told my teacher that I want to play it. He promptly humbled me.
5 – I’m not an artist by the strictest definition of the word… but I’ve always wanted to be. I’ve studied music, painting, and I’m teaching myself photography, which is currently my only creative outlet. I think, in my next life, I would want to be an artist of some sort.
6 – Two subjects that I prefer to avoid when I talk to people are religion and politics. After having lived in so many places and having been exposed to so many religions, cultures, political views, it’s so difficult to make a case for one versus the other. I respect each person’s distinct beliefs. I do, however, believe that any form of blind fanaticism can be troubling.
7 - I try to be a perfectionist. Mediocrity bugs me… just about myself.
8 – I’ve never had a dog or a cat. I have had a gorgeous blue and gold macaw and two awesome parrots. If I had a white dog, I would name it Snowy (Tintin reference).
9 – The most important people in the world to me are my family. They're the only ones capable of giving me unconditional love.
10 – I like to surround myself with people who make me happy. There’s no room in my book for those that have a cynical view on everything in life (or those who are jerks, in general). I believe life is too short, and I want to spend it smiling and laughing… even if I have to be ignorant about certain things.
That’s all. Thank you for reading.
P.S. A very sincere thank you to all who took the time to help me. I’ve officially opened the store. Thank you SO much!
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x Zoey
"...Only the thinking we live has value...!! (Hermann Hesse)
...Thank you my friend...!! You taught me to speak at the right moment, but also to be silent and just think...!!!!"
(Drawn by me as a little boy in the seventies in East-Berlin GDR)
... I remember Soviet union.
My homeland, Latvia was occupied by Soviet army in June 17, 1940. Local people - thousands and thousands were sent to Siberia in livestock wagons as state enemies where died of cold, starve or slavery-like hard work... (They who returned, never had a chance to get a higher education, to get their life back...)Soviet government had plans of russification and reeducation local people as Soviet patriots... Latvia was flooded with Russian migrants - militarists and proletariat who were not going to learn Latvian language (and their posterity still are not going to do it - they still aren’t lojal and do not respect our culture, instead of it they clamour about violation of their human rights and demand Russian language to be second official language!!!). Even little children were forced to go in all those official demostrations with soviet flags and placards with faces of communist party leaders and to shout "hurrah!" and all those idiotic Soviet slogans... I remember it with every cell of my body... Any mention of free Latvia, November 18 or red-white-red flag could end in cellars of KGB or camps of GULAG... National patriots were called imperialistic agents, bourgeois nacionalists and state betrayers and punished...
And all those more than 50 years our people behind the iron curtain hoped and waited for support of the democratic world... vain hopes... Only in secrecy listening for Voice of America and RadioFreeEurope we heard about in exile living Latvian people efforts to pay attention to situation in Latvia - genocide against Latvian nation and the fact that Latvia is not voluntarily joined to Soviet Union but been occupied by force and monstrous lie. USSR had never admitted the fact of occupation... till nowadays... they still hold a view that we are a part of Russia, just as during Russian Empire when tzar Peter I made Latvia as his „window to Europe”!
Doesn't it remind you, people of free world, of something? Something going on in Tibet now? When I think about Tibet, everything rose up. When I watched a documentary about Tibet, "Cry of the Snow Lion", especially those Chinese official chronicles about happy smiling Tibetan people welcoming the Chinese army saving them from slavery etc, I recognised it all - the same methods - whopping lie, demagogy, chauvinism... all the same... that's the way Russian and Chinese communist authorities act... no matter, in Chechnya or Tibet... the difference is just in mentality of the victims, the way how they see the possibility to get their freedom...
Just 15 years ago due to economical and political collapse of USSR our country resumed independency after 52 long years under occupacion regime of Soviet Union. We should be in first lines to support every occupied nation’s desire for freedom and independency... but we seems forgot everything... forgot how it is - to hope for support and not get it! I am envious about Estonian president who has announced his views already! Our governament is a crowd of self-satisfied cowards, waiting what other world will say and do... and in the end will do as Russia will... „we are for united China”... Miserably...
I’ll try to translate quote from Polish author Bruno Jasensky:
„Don’t be afraid of enemies – the worst they can do, is to kill you. Don’t be afraid of friends – the worst they can do, is to betray you. Be afraid of indifferents. Because the world’s most terrifying crimes are implemented with silent support of all them.”
Let’s not be indifferent!
And big thanks to everyone who read it to the last line! :)
Here two completely different painting spaces harmonize.
This kind of harmony makes our consciousness goes to free.
One could be forgiven for thinking that mother nature decided to take her best features and exhibit them all in this south pacific island nation .
All the classics are there awe inspiring alps plunging fjords, expanses of pristine beach ,dense rainforests, active volcanoes .top it off with lively indigenous culture ,cosmopolitian cities and a people with a distinctly kiwi lust for life , and you know this is one special country .