Inspiration Monday.

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Now I'm reading a great great book by P. Coelho, "The Zahir" - I love it!
It's one of those books that gives you answers to the questions you've been caring around for some time - it really suits me right at this moment.
Here's one of the quotes for your week inspiration:
All you have to do is to pay attention: lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.

Have a good one!
xoxo
Ak.

have a blooming weekend.

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My darlings, I won't say anymore that I don't have time to write the blog - it's obvious and I'm sorry.
But when I find time to write something - I'm doing it.
What's your plan for the weekend?
I had a cozy Friday evening with my lovely friend Sonata, we watched Despicable me, have you seen it? It's my favorite animation movie! These yellow things are soooooo funny and lovely, their laugh is so catching!
On the Saturday evening I'm going to this lindy hop party (for Lithuanian readers I highly recommend it:)! There will be a live playing band and some cool lindy hop dancers, who will show us some tricks. Of course, we can dance there as well, but I'm not sure if that's going to happen, as I find myself at such a low level, haha. Anyway, our group knows at least this shim sham line dance, haha (here's the global shim sham! You can see Lithuanians very very shortly dancing in Vilnius at 3:05!).
And for Sunday, I would love to spend some time with H. Murakami book I told you about - things are going weird there. I have to catch up with them.
And I will be hoping for a warm weather, although it will be perhaps one more month since in Lithuania we will see some blooming trees, but I'm already waiting for them to bloom!
Oh spring, come home!
Have a good one!
P. S. And oh, yes. Some works.
xoxo
Ak.

Inspiration Monday.

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Every now and again it comes the day in my life, when I have to read one book of Haruki Murakami (have you read some of his books? I adore him! The wind-up bird chronicles is my favorite:). 

I can't explain it, but I can't read H. Murakami books in a row - it takes time after reading one and then taking another. It seems like it has somehow to settle in my mind.

Now I'm reading Hard-boiled Wonderland & The End Of The World - great great book.

But today I will share a quote from the book Sputnik, Sweetheart, I loved it as well very very much.

And it came to me then. That we were wonderful travelling companions, but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

Have a inspiring week!

xoxo

Ak.

have an adventurous weekend!

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Hello, my darlings,

what are you up to this weekend? I hope I could make it to go to Munich to see the Christkindlesmarkt there this Saturday (I've heard it's absolutely charming! Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt is also very adorable!), but the weather is not very promising, so I might end up with writing Chirstmas cards for everyone.
I have a really nice idea for the cards this year, but I can't tell you right now, cause my friends are reading this blog, haha!
But don't worry, I'm planning to share some ideas for Christmas presents anyway, just the ones I had last year, so maybe you can get some inspiration for this Christmas.
And talking about presents - my lovely friends, who I met at university in Lithuania 2 years ago, Sonata and Monika, send me this year the most amazing present for my birthday - a book of Woody Allen (remember this funny parody?)!
I looooooooove Woody Allen (I even have this delightful print in my apartment in Vilnius!) and I didn't know that there already is a lithuanian edition of his book, so it was a quite surprise for me!
There are three plays in the book, I've already read one - it's so amazing, I have to share this quote, that made me laugh out loud:

[Here's one married man tells the other man about his secret romance with another women]
Fred: What does your psychiatrist say about that?
Jim: He suggested stopping.
Fred: And you...
Jim: I stopped. Seeing my psychiatrist.

Thank you to my lovely friends! I'm so happy, I will read this book hundred of times!

P. S. Did I tell you, my secret dream is to watch all Woody Allen movies (have you seen this funny short movie about New York?) and actually it's quote challenging, because there are over 40 movies! But I'm working on it.

xoxo,
Ak.

a midsummer's dream.

Just for this evening I want to go back to my summer!
Just give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know ~  J. Keats

P. S. This picture is taken last summer in Jurmala, Latvia. What a lovely beach, what a lovely weather and what a lovely book was in my hands that day!

Don't forget to warm up your hearts with summer memories (it's already November, you're allowed to do that) & have a sunny thursday, my lovelies!

xoxo,
Ak.

dandelion wine.

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Regine Ramseier, a German artist, had an idea to stop the time, to stop ever lasting changing and growing processes, so she carefully picked 2,000 dandelions in their cloud-like form and sprayed a gentle adhesive on them, as if it treating them with water from the fountain of youth. The dandelions were then transferred by car to a little white room where they were hung.
So lovely project of art! I'd love to stand in this room alone for a little while :).

P. S. Remember the book Dandelion wine written by Ray Bradbury? It stole my heart! It's the best book about the childhood I ever read - so sincere & somehow magic!

xoxo,
Ak.

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remember the world.

Incredible shots by russian photographer Alexis Perevoschikov! (the last one looks like from the novel the old man and the sea :) )
xoxo,
Ak.

[...] if I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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I always have some books in my mind that I know that someday I'm going to read it, so in order not to forget, I'm going to make a list:

• The Brothers Karamazov by F. Dostojevski;
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude by G. G. Marquez;
• The Red And The Black by Stendhal;
• The Night In Lisbon by E. M. Remark;
• 1984 by G. Orwell;
• 1Q84 by H. Murakami;
• In Search Of Lost Time by M. Proust;
• The Beautiful And The Damned by F. S. Fitzgerald;
• Ignorance by M. Kundera. 
  
  Tomorrow I will defenately have a book-afternoon with a cup of green tea by my side!
  xoxo,
  Ak.