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Coffee
“Black as night, sweet as sin.”
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Light
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
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Powerful
“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak!”
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Dębowo, bukowo u nas
Jest po prostu słonecznie, mokro, błotniście i pięknie:) Kocham Brystol, bardzo przypomina mi Budapeszt – ma wiele zaskakujących zakątków, ale przede wszystkim jest bardzo słoneczny! Na imieniny wybrałam się w las, pięć minut od domu, mam na wyciągnięcie ręki. Są też pola i łąki, jak w hrabstwie, ale bez zadufanych ludzi. Tu, w Brystolu mieszkają ci z gatunku ” z liściem na głowie” 🙂
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Rituals
It’s my Nameday today which means I am celebrating the meaning of my first name. The importance of this day is close to my heart because of someone else, a person close to my heart, who also celebrates their Nameday the very same day and who had the most significant (and very positive) impact on my life. I have a little ritual on this day: I look for a black rose and bring it home, but oftentimes it’s quite hard to get. Black, in this case, stands for endless – endless love, endless family history, endless life. I have decided this year to switch to a white rose (white is the opposite of black and yet also equally endless and much more practical too).
I know, feel, experience the value of rituals in our life but today I looked into the research about it. For now, I did not find a good book or study yet, but I’m not going to give up. According to this Scientific American article, rituals are known to bring relief in grief and I am studying a lot of cultural rituals surrounding death so I guess I think about it a lot. I hope that I can deepen my knowledge a bit later, as our new life in Bristol, still demands a lot of my energy at the moment. I want to study the history of mourning but also the impact and mechanisms of rituals.