In uk my landlord was the son of Akhmatovas mostant important love, Boris Anrep. Anrep, on emigrating first to France and thence to England, left her with an orthodox cross as a symbole for departing ways. It nearly broke her. Many decades later, her birth of place turned into the Akhmatova museum in Leiningrad, Anreps son asked me to take a foto of that very cross. So on my vistit to Mosco in early 80s, I had a detour to Leningrad to visit the museum. The curator, on hearing my sory as to why I came all the ay from England to visit the museum, just gave me a huge hug and could not stop crying. These are the people I got to know in Russia. Every pencil is worshipped like e relic.
The museum ha an assistant whose husband had a car because of his government position. He as my chauffeur for whole eek driving me whereever I wanted to go and in the end refused any money.
The comments on the post called "Three Poems" was accidentally set to "paid subscribers only in the comments section. I have fixed it now. I place all posts and all comments open to all. Sorry for the mishap.
Thank you again, Celia. I appreciate the things you post, and some of your insights on postings that I may miss or overlook. In school I was very weak concerning literature perception. Shakespeare I could memorize but could not understand.
You surprised me, bringing in Akhmatove like that, out of the blue. Thank you for that paragraph. I spent many hears studying Russian litertature - what other nation's leaders actually sat down with their writers, especially poets? and then there is Akhmatova, Stalin's 'little whore llittle nun.' He had spies on her constantly, hiding beneath the oaks at The Fountain House. She lived there in her ex-husband's apartment, remarkable to see, to just be there, where she thought and wrote. I always need an office, but Akhmatove wrote at a wee table. When her son was imprisoned, she stood outside the wall with other mothers and wives. One woman recognized her and asked , "could she write this?" She could, and did. I stand in awe of her, her evocative images that never fail to tug at me, her voice in Russian, so passionate. It is my estimation that Russian writers have an extra-deep communication with both their own and their country's soul.
It is a great paragraph. Maybe it is not "Anglican-style" information, but it is, in so many ways, informing. The adjective "blinding" is by no means either gratuitous or wasted, and enters into the then presented width of the metaphor that has a nation and a culture "washing and ironing that shirt" through "two bloody wars and a lot of other blood." Taken together, that is no small amount of doing some "telling."
If we are hard core nationalized we are easily pushed into believing in 9/11 and the twitter war , making enemies of other people in other nations.
Who cares what nation writers are from as there are many good writers from many locations .
They write information .
Rumi the poet communicates. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
Whereas no one in there right mind thinks the swedes have clean shirts so the information is redundant . There are many people of all nations with white shirts and with dirty shirts. Blame, guilt and focus on past is an egoic jig- part of the regression.
"Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future, which do not exist."
Oh. Really? I was just thinking it was about loving "national" features. Like we might say, "I love how Albanians make a promise." That kind of thing. Is that "nationalism?"
I'd call "Like we might say, I love how Albanians make a promise." generalizations about how all people from a nation are. This thought in particular would be in order to feel superior ( eg we dont make promises like the Albanians ergo we are better).
Generalizing about nationalizing is always missing the mark as all people from one land mass definitely dont hold the same characteristics.
Nationalization is a State concept . The world teaches you in State indoctrination( education) to identify with being a separate nation( a land mass ). Then the State creates or makes false enemies( people in other nations). 9/11 was great ( sarc) one man( Bush's buddy) was the dangerous enemy of ( threat to) " Americans". Ironically the WEF's twitter war has also captured minds.
So I will A to D( Agree to disagree:)).
When we label someone an Albanian/ Russian they are different from us, though this only a mistake a mental habit we created an " other"... fear can arise.
The world teaches you how we are different .
I can see that we are all human beings .
Feeling the sameness of our being, oneness , inter-connectedness (with no judgements is needed) this generates love not fear.
Let tme clarify: Albanians are famous for their unique version of a promise or vow, known as a "besa." It can't be broken. So "how Albanians make a promise" is a compliment. Feel superior? To an Albanian? Me? Absolutely not.
Only Albanians are not famous for keeping their promises .
Many more people use to be (what you in error in reply attached a nationality to ) men of their word and its not a character trait that is associated with a nationality .
Haha I bet in the olden days the normal thing (to keep your promises) was used to feel superior as you should just keep your promise without having to give it unique status of a "Besa" .
They're famous for keeping their BESA. There is even a documentary film about the BESA. It's called "The Besa." What is this argument about? I am confused.
If you had to tell me then they are not famous for it.
Now I am disagreeing about a sweeping generalization about Albanians keeping their promises.
I just said it was a mistake (if we want to shift paradigms) to keep up the same CO/CNN memes, narrative , nationalization and then attribute traits( like honesty and keeping your word) to a sole nation . I am sorry I confused you. I am not a fan of nationalization (or patriotism) but I am a fan of Human Being-ism.
Like salmon leaping impossibly up a waterfall, the amount of ground covered in the passage is at once dizzying and graceful, and each element, each image, magically serves the (unexpected) whole (apparently) effortlessly.
Chess, mathematics, fiction. Russia is a far more mysterious place than most realize. It's why so much prophesy points to it. Steiner saw it. My folks rented an apartment to a Russian grandmaster, and gave him a huge break on his rent. I've never seen a person more deeply interior than he.
Dmitri Shostakovich's 'Testimony' started me on the path to questioning everything. He had that same wit. You can't just put your finger on it, but it conveys such truth that it makes you laugh out loud. This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.
ok now that you have brought up Shostakovich....I went down a rabbit hole I've been to before. His story is endlessly unbelievable. Feels like a post is inevitable. But once we get into the Russians, and the arts, and the Stalin era... we literally will never emerge. Maybe that's ok. But lots of people will give up on us. idk.
Except that their neutrality consisted of arming anybody who was paying. For example, the US lost a whole squadron bombing German ball bearing factory only for Sweden to replace them. But Akhmatove did not know.
India charges WHO Scientist Soumya Swaminathan for Mass Murder: The beginning of Accountability
“They are accusing her of causing the deaths of many Indian citizens by misleading them about the effect of Ivermectin, which she stated did not work against Covid-19.”
That article is from September of last year. Nothing has happened since. The Indian Bar Association is voluntary organization bringing the charges. Don't hold your breath.
In uk my landlord was the son of Akhmatovas mostant important love, Boris Anrep. Anrep, on emigrating first to France and thence to England, left her with an orthodox cross as a symbole for departing ways. It nearly broke her. Many decades later, her birth of place turned into the Akhmatova museum in Leiningrad, Anreps son asked me to take a foto of that very cross. So on my vistit to Mosco in early 80s, I had a detour to Leningrad to visit the museum. The curator, on hearing my sory as to why I came all the ay from England to visit the museum, just gave me a huge hug and could not stop crying. These are the people I got to know in Russia. Every pencil is worshipped like e relic.
That's amazing.
The museum ha an assistant whose husband had a car because of his government position. He as my chauffeur for whole eek driving me whereever I wanted to go and in the end refused any money.
Thank you so much for sharing your incredible experience!!
The comments on the post called "Three Poems" was accidentally set to "paid subscribers only in the comments section. I have fixed it now. I place all posts and all comments open to all. Sorry for the mishap.
Thank you again, Celia. I appreciate the things you post, and some of your insights on postings that I may miss or overlook. In school I was very weak concerning literature perception. Shakespeare I could memorize but could not understand.
thank you! appreciated.
❤️
You surprised me, bringing in Akhmatove like that, out of the blue. Thank you for that paragraph. I spent many hears studying Russian litertature - what other nation's leaders actually sat down with their writers, especially poets? and then there is Akhmatova, Stalin's 'little whore llittle nun.' He had spies on her constantly, hiding beneath the oaks at The Fountain House. She lived there in her ex-husband's apartment, remarkable to see, to just be there, where she thought and wrote. I always need an office, but Akhmatove wrote at a wee table. When her son was imprisoned, she stood outside the wall with other mothers and wives. One woman recognized her and asked , "could she write this?" She could, and did. I stand in awe of her, her evocative images that never fail to tug at me, her voice in Russian, so passionate. It is my estimation that Russian writers have an extra-deep communication with both their own and their country's soul.
Wow speaking of evocative images thank you for sharing that
It is a great paragraph. Maybe it is not "Anglican-style" information, but it is, in so many ways, informing. The adjective "blinding" is by no means either gratuitous or wasted, and enters into the then presented width of the metaphor that has a nation and a culture "washing and ironing that shirt" through "two bloody wars and a lot of other blood." Taken together, that is no small amount of doing some "telling."
Somehow reading Akhmatova always makes me feel a yearning to be Russian, to understand that perspective, that depth of soul...
An interesting dichotomy, given the ancient ties between the Swedish people and the Russian people.
Very much about the past, wars and nationalism.
If we are hard core nationalized we are easily pushed into believing in 9/11 and the twitter war , making enemies of other people in other nations.
Who cares what nation writers are from as there are many good writers from many locations .
They write information .
Rumi the poet communicates. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
Whereas no one in there right mind thinks the swedes have clean shirts so the information is redundant . There are many people of all nations with white shirts and with dirty shirts. Blame, guilt and focus on past is an egoic jig- part of the regression.
"Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future, which do not exist."
(ACIM, T-15.I.8:2)
Oh. Really? I was just thinking it was about loving "national" features. Like we might say, "I love how Albanians make a promise." That kind of thing. Is that "nationalism?"
We see persons and things not as they are but as we are
😊
What loving features?
I'd call "Like we might say, I love how Albanians make a promise." generalizations about how all people from a nation are. This thought in particular would be in order to feel superior ( eg we dont make promises like the Albanians ergo we are better).
Generalizing about nationalizing is always missing the mark as all people from one land mass definitely dont hold the same characteristics.
Nationalization is a State concept . The world teaches you in State indoctrination( education) to identify with being a separate nation( a land mass ). Then the State creates or makes false enemies( people in other nations). 9/11 was great ( sarc) one man( Bush's buddy) was the dangerous enemy of ( threat to) " Americans". Ironically the WEF's twitter war has also captured minds.
So I will A to D( Agree to disagree:)).
When we label someone an Albanian/ Russian they are different from us, though this only a mistake a mental habit we created an " other"... fear can arise.
The world teaches you how we are different .
I can see that we are all human beings .
Feeling the sameness of our being, oneness , inter-connectedness (with no judgements is needed) this generates love not fear.
Let tme clarify: Albanians are famous for their unique version of a promise or vow, known as a "besa." It can't be broken. So "how Albanians make a promise" is a compliment. Feel superior? To an Albanian? Me? Absolutely not.
Only Albanians are not famous for keeping their promises .
Many more people use to be (what you in error in reply attached a nationality to ) men of their word and its not a character trait that is associated with a nationality .
Haha I bet in the olden days the normal thing (to keep your promises) was used to feel superior as you should just keep your promise without having to give it unique status of a "Besa" .
A to D.
They're famous for keeping their BESA. There is even a documentary film about the BESA. It's called "The Besa." What is this argument about? I am confused.
There is even a documentary about " covid19" .
If you had to tell me then they are not famous for it.
Now I am disagreeing about a sweeping generalization about Albanians keeping their promises.
I just said it was a mistake (if we want to shift paradigms) to keep up the same CO/CNN memes, narrative , nationalization and then attribute traits( like honesty and keeping your word) to a sole nation . I am sorry I confused you. I am not a fan of nationalization (or patriotism) but I am a fan of Human Being-ism.
Marvellous
Like salmon leaping impossibly up a waterfall, the amount of ground covered in the passage is at once dizzying and graceful, and each element, each image, magically serves the (unexpected) whole (apparently) effortlessly.
Chess, mathematics, fiction. Russia is a far more mysterious place than most realize. It's why so much prophesy points to it. Steiner saw it. My folks rented an apartment to a Russian grandmaster, and gave him a huge break on his rent. I've never seen a person more deeply interior than he.
Dmitri Shostakovich's 'Testimony' started me on the path to questioning everything. He had that same wit. You can't just put your finger on it, but it conveys such truth that it makes you laugh out loud. This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.
ok now that you have brought up Shostakovich....I went down a rabbit hole I've been to before. His story is endlessly unbelievable. Feels like a post is inevitable. But once we get into the Russians, and the arts, and the Stalin era... we literally will never emerge. Maybe that's ok. But lots of people will give up on us. idk.
I would love that!
And the Swedes were proud of staying out…. She writes beautifully..
Except that their neutrality consisted of arming anybody who was paying. For example, the US lost a whole squadron bombing German ball bearing factory only for Sweden to replace them. But Akhmatove did not know.
The Arms Dealers are an international plague
Celia you’re right amazingly well and you have the most incredible people who follow you!! I love them all!!
Pressure creates diamonds.
Wow, Celia, no wonder I love talking to our two Russian filmmakers, Yura and Varya.
Sorry, OT but exciting:
India charges WHO Scientist Soumya Swaminathan for Mass Murder: The beginning of Accountability
“They are accusing her of causing the deaths of many Indian citizens by misleading them about the effect of Ivermectin, which she stated did not work against Covid-19.”
https://newamericangovernment.org/india-charges-who-scientist-soumya-swaminathan-for-mass-murder-the-beginning-of-accountability/
That article is from September of last year. Nothing has happened since. The Indian Bar Association is voluntary organization bringing the charges. Don't hold your breath.
Thanks, Debbie Downer 😉
I would imagine a charge like that might take well over a year to resolve.