We are controlled by what we fear so much that it changes the course of our life-path and our action what we "can't live without" or get heavy withdrawal symptoms from what gives us pleasure

There was a funny thing that I saw today on some social media. Apparently, Russia has finally opened its borders, and now regular people can fly to Turkey, business people and VIP can fly to England, and

Ha-ha! Every time I try to become a constant writer on here, something happens, and I just disappear for an extended period of time. My time perception has been fluctuating a lot - I jump from feeling

Criminalizing protests

I was getting ready for an evening walk yesterday when everyone's phones rang an alert which said that the City of Los Angeles must remain indoors from 8 PM to 5:30 AM tonight. It's a curfew because apparently

I was in the park with my daughter today. We built a fence made of small sticks, twigs, and dry branches of a huge two-hundred year old tree that stands next to the stream. We played tag, sat on the grass,

Sooo... I’ve just got to this other writing platform called Uptrennd, registered there, and, naturally, started reading what people write about and what the general atmosphere of the platform is. It’s

You see, I thought I knew a lot. But it turned out that I was just a sponge saturated with Information. Our brain — a brilliant machine — tends to take stories that we never lived through and make them

One possible solution to the smartphone tracking problem for those of us who are paranoid about it seems to be a rather drastic measure of abandoning the smartphone use completely while we're on the move.

Today one person I was talking to made an obvious point about the fear of biometric horrors of the new world and possible implementation of chips into our bodies. She said what many of us already know:

It's OK for me to dive deep into the polluted depths of our world. After all, I was raised in it, modified and nurtured by it, shaped by its programming, fed by its products. It's not like I'm forcing

I don’t know of anyone who have learned anything worthy or became anything close to Human from constant, lazy, relaxed, carefree pleasure. No, not a temporary spark of pleasure that happens once in a while

If you think that the faith required from you is beyond human capabilities, you still lack awareness and understanding of what it means to be human. ~ from practice One of the greatest challenges is to

this is the reality as it can sometimes be. I am literally reliving the scenes (no, reality) as it was shown in Revolver. I am in the midst of it, my mind knows it is happening, but I can neither get out

~ For those of you who are looking for a Teacher - think twice! ~ Difficult and scary is the moment when you realize that your Teacher, the one who guides, suddenly becomes your most dangerous opponent.

Today's workout. This tree has become my stretching/yoga partner. Most of the parks are empty, and the weather is magnificent. I practice meditation and various martial arts movements outside. Oh, and

There is an old saying, «Behind every great man there is a great woman.» I will neither argue to destroy it nor try to prove it right. I'd like to look at something else first - at how women use this idea

Our perceptions and understandings of everything are created by the environment we are born and live in and by a multitude of influences that exist in it. Our understandings and notions of freedom itself

**I try to get a bit more scheduled if it comes to posting, replying and reading. ** I have two accounts to take care of and still do not know how everything works. A friend told me I can press the stop

After what seems an eternity out of school in this so-called “lockdown”, we finally received information that today our kids are supposed to get iPads for distance learning. We did receive paper packages