Monday, 26 August 2013

                                  FREE JOY


How much does a single joy cost? Sometimes it costs a lot - many sleepless nights, sleepy red eyes, aching back or waiting for ages....but usually most real joys are free of charge...:)

Today I am grateful for my free joy. For my free day. For having a wonderful chance to get enough sleep. For assisting my mom with making our breakfast. For making some cooking progress. For finally getting in touch with an old friend of mine I did not communicate for many years...That's so great to hear his happy news!
I'm grateful to a good friend of mine who found time of his life for me. I'm grateful for my wonderful Monday. I love Mondays...why? There is a special reason I'll stay silent about. ;) Shhh.....

It is great to be free. :) To wake up with a big smile on your face. To see a smile of someone in front of you. That's the greatest joy. And...it's almost free. :)



                       Sunday Evening 

This Sunday my mom and I had a little walk around our village. We stopped by a local pond...and I just opened my eyes...then closed them...then opened again...looked up into the sky and saw a beautiful cloud that was sinking into the water...

I'm grateful for this beauty around, for being a tiny part of this world, for having people who care for me. I'm grateful for being able to see this wonderful world full of wonders - a bird  happily singinging as if it were to live forever...and me and my mom - silently admiring this moment of life....



Saturday, 24 August 2013

           My Butterfly of Happiness


Happiness is like a beautiful butterfly. It flies from nowhere and it steals all your words. It silently sits on your palm and you're so happy....and you're afraid of even breathing, so you're admiring this moment as if it were the moment of eternity...





I'm grateful for my happiness. For my happy moments. For my waiting. For the minutes I was counting down to. I'm grateful for everything. For all my funny and sad moments. For my happy time that will always stay with me. No matter what. 


I'm grateful for a great friend of mine who came to visit me. For a wonderful time we spent together. For learning something new about my friend I used to see on another side of the virtual world only. I'm grateful for our endless talks, evening walking together, for some little trips around our Cossack land, for cooking together, for the fire and the starry night. For this short but very special joy. It was like a real miracle. And then we had to say good bye. Maybe forever. Maybe for good. It makes me sad but also grateful. I'm grateful for our sunny memories that will be my sun when I feel cloudy. 





I'm grateful for my little castle trip. For touching the past of my land. For some new friends I've made during the trip. I'm grateful for my beautiful motherland. I'm grateful for these rare moments when I am out. For my bus trip. :) For watching funny clouds in the sky...For my mobile phone that was keeping ringing...






I'm grateful for my far away guests. It was something new for me. I enjoyed the time of my life - of being a translator even during eating! :D That was fun. I'm grateful for seeing something what I always failed to see....my happiness. My mom. My friends who are by my side. For my sweet bed that did not mind different Daria...happy or sad. :) 




Well, it's so hard to describe my butterfly of happiness to you. What can words express? Just a pure sound...If you could only see my inner self, you'd see a huge sunray. I'm grateful for my great August days...The green-blue joy forever...




Sunday, 11 August 2013


Happy Waiting....


Tomorrow is uknown...now I imagine...nothing else is left...My future....what will it be like tomorrow? But it doesn't matter...I am so happy to wait. Even it this waiting means nothing. I am just happy. Happy to have a day I never expected to have. I am grateful for my waiting. For my silly joy. For my long walk today. For my teacher who tries to smile through tears even though she's so ill. 


I bravely look at tomorrow...the sun is slowly appearing through thick dark clouds...and I am alive...happy and...Shhh...I'll tell you later...maybe...:)

Wednesday, 7 August 2013

           A Cup of Coffee For the Rain


This quiet August evening...My mama and I are sitting on our green porch, sipping chicory coffee with milk. My mom is also talking to my grandpa on the phone. My thoughts are travelling away...where I will probably never be able to travel to physically...I'm thinking of someone. I wonder if my thoughts could ever reach this person by a light breeze through this person's hair?

 Then the sky started to cry...quietly. I really wished I could dance in the rain...or just sit in the rain. With my eyes closed. Feeling its pain. But that would make my mama think I went bananas...:D I mean that would make me look like I'm out of mind....forever...:D

I'm grateful for my rainy evening. For my red cup of coffee. For my mama sitting by my side. For my fast thoughts that are free of charge. :D 




Monday, 5 August 2013

Rainy Wake Up, Waiting for You, The First Time Ever, New Version of Daria or Life is Beautiful


I seem to be a lazybones blogger. Well, I have lots of wonderful excuses. Most of them are connected with my work, different activities around and some exciting events ahead…
So, let me summarize my new, freshly baked joys for you, please:

I’m grateful for my rainy Sunday morning. For this quiet rain without any grumpy thunder. I felt excited, staying in my warm bed. I was waiting for my dear friend to come along this day. I’m grateful for waiting. It’s wonderful to wait for someone. To count the hours and then minutes…and then this breathtaking moment of your friend in front of you…That’s like seeing a long-awaited rainbow after the sun wiped the sky’s tears away…

This Sunday was my great day. The day when I learnt a lot. Perhaps more than I have ever learnt. I was honoured to host a lovely friend of mine. She’s an artist. Inside and out. Her free soul is unstoppable. Her health difficulties might have made her forever isolated. But she is not. She’s a free bird. That’s what I have felt since our first meeting. This day was a great discovery for both of us. She has picked up some blackberries by herself for the first time in her life. She looked and sounded so thrilled and happy about it…And I felt so awkward and shy….because I don’t remember when was the last time I was so excited about picking up fruits by myself…I am grateful for this amazing lesson. I try to look at this world with her eyes a bit. To enjoy what I usually take for granted. My green garden, my freedom, my sunset….




I’m grateful for our ice-cream and milk cocktails party. For laughing together. For taking pictures of each joyful moment. For our hope to keep it like that forever. Simple but warm.
I’m grateful for my friend’s gentle hands who changed my “every day plain” look into a modern pretty cool girl. I was often close to bursting into laughter while she was putting some makeup on my face. I felt a bit unusual. I couldn’t really recognize myself. A new me. A new face of Daria…who’s the same hopeless dreamer and sun lover. Even with my new decorated nails. 

Hey...I don't feel like that's me...haha...But it's great to be a bit different at times! :P

I’m grateful for my morning miracle – I have finally managed to complete the bracelet for my dear friend. And that was almost the one I wanted…well, I believe one day I’ll be an expert of this new hobby of mine…And the miraculous part of it is I have made it within one hour! I just wanted to present it to my friend that day…and I didn’t want to wait…I loved this process  - of putting a piece of myself there…my dreams and hopes. My wonderful wishes for her. For someone who brightens up my every day. Even when it’s too cloudy.


I’m grateful for my new hope. For people who don’t let me fall. Who raise me up. Who make me see how beautiful life is. For God inside their hearts. For my pain-free days. For being able to move my body the way I do. For my stupid hopes. For happy waiting. For day-dreaming. For fighting with my laziness. For starring at the sky today. For flying into this sky with my soul. For stroking a neighbour’s kitty. For drinking coffee with my mom in our garden. For my dad’s successful final surgery. For being able to support him my way. For our connection. For my new day. For my new life. And…I must tell you that it’s worth living. As long as I see someone I love. As long as someone wants to love me. As long as this world needs me. As long as I can feel the sky…