As of yesterday I have launched the second edition of the Books and Life contest. The topic is not a happy cheerful one and I am sure that it might not look tempting to participate as it can trigger sad

I shall return

This is not me. I have been informed that this account is active. This is not my account so I kindly ask everybody not to interact with it expecting to be me. I am not sure if this can be shut down and

I’ve been dealing with some personal issues lately so I need to take a break from everything to just rebalance myself emotionally. I value Hive and the community very much and I do not like to disappear

Photo Credit : Baylee Gramling (Unsplash) You’ve finally decided to take the plunge and make a commitment to the one you love. Now it’s time to start planning your life together. After popping the question,

I was deeply sad and angry after I watched this documentary. Filmed in my country, Romania, it is a perfect tragic depiction of the majority of people living here. It is great that it has english subtitles

I thought about pampering myself a little and splurge on art supplies. My inner child needs this once in a while👶🎨 As I am an expert in pointillism art, I keep it rather simple. But in the last month

"Caught up in a thinking shoe"-42x30cm pencil on paper There is a big problem with smart people: they tend to always overthink. Where there’s a great deal of smartness , there is also an undertone

I often feel that I am an overfunctioning individual. I always have high standards for myself and for others and I am used with working hard. Last week and for many weeks prior, I noticed how my creative

I was deeply touched by this video. It is a short movie with interviews of people who are over 100 years old. How do they see life? What can we learn from them? One of them is still alive, two have passed

How easily do you forgive people? Can you go now and light a candle for the person who did you the most harm? Can you feel compassion and actually pray for them to be better, to find their way back to

I always had a thing for black and white photography. I remember being a kid and looking through the old albums of my grandmother. So many pictures, only monochrome. I loved the texture, the smell, the

This is another set of wedding glasses realised by me. This design is very simple to do if you have some basic skills for modelling clay. I made the roses out of clay, let them dry and then I applied gold

I have recently came across the wonderful recordings of Wayne Dyson. I even fall asleep listening to them. I've particularly found quite interesting a certain metaphor he used. I was smiling in revelation

This book is a must read guide if you want to be a successful person. In business, in personal life, in your family and in your relationships. Jim Rohn's book, The keys to success, is very easy to read.

How much power is in the unsaid? You might be tempted to think that there is no power at all, that a gesture, a word, an action which did not went to the receiving end were pretty much useless. On some

I had in my mind an idea about my next isograph pen purchase from Rotring. For those of you who nicely followed my journey as an artist here on Hive, you know that I worked on my pointillism drawings with

How much of what you think is trully the product of your own mind? As soon as we wake up from our beds in the morning our mind is primed with ideas through words, visuals, sensory things. We like to believe

This is another wedding set of glasses made by me. I loved the contrast between red and black and I thought it would look great on the glasses. As usual I used materials which were handy and not used.

Anger. This is a feeling most of us experienced at least one time in the last....week?Maybe for some of you even more recently. Maybe you've been angry just before scrolling down to reach here, reading