At the end of 2009 I had the chance to write the lyrics to the music. This basically meant that I had to “find” the melody and to adapt the lyrics to it. I loved the experience, all the mo...
…I am thinking of one artist. Like him, I am not interested in goblins and airy castles. Certainly, there is certain beauty in all this, but I need real people. And it is them whom I want to wri...
The Remains of Santa, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Christmas Undone, Manchester It so happened that I documented both the rise and demise of Santa Claus that descends annually on Manche...
I wish a very happy Orthodox Christmas to all readers who celebrate it! The postcard is once again from my family’s archive, and the video below presents the picturesque winter landscape of the ...
Manchester Snow 22, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia....
Manchester Snow 16, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Such was the scene in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, and this was the largest number of snowmen I’ve ever seen within a fairly s...
I love coffee, and in 2000 I wrote the poem Reading the Tea Leaves. This is a kind of linguistic truism: the English say “reading the tea leaves“, while in Russian we say “reading th...
Just as I posted about friendship as love, I thought I’d post one of my all time favourites: Love Is a Beautiful Thing by Al Green. Featured in many romantic movies, to me this is simply one of ...
Friendship to me is no different from Love. I may expand on it in another post, but in short, I do not associate love primarily with sex or marriage, yet it is an important constituent in making a dec...
There are certain recordings that are simply the best. I can listen to no other version of the 3rd movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata than that by Daniel Barenboim. Similarly, Yehudi Menuh...