Unity Makes Strength, Disunity Makes Us (part two)

galliag — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:01:30 -0700

In this thread of thoughts, I can also feel sentiments towards my home, my home town, my homeland. Yet, despite the theoretical fact that these are my home, my home town, my homeland for the circumstance that I have been born there, I only truly recognize them when via sentiment. If I cannot experience my bond through my feelings then it is an artificial recognition, ink on sheet of paper.The ...

Unity Makes Strength, Disunity Makes Us (part one)

galliag — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:01:24 -0700

To finish the theme of the previous two classes and complete a peculiar trilogy, I am going to draw few final lines on the question of relations between people inside and outside the same boundary. I find it illogical, though explainable, when we tend to accept and behave to each other as foreigners rather than kindred, as belonging to different worlds rather than a common one, and experiencing ...

Not to Shoot the Sheriff, not to Kill a Mockingbird, Just to Try Few Words at Them

galliag — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:27:37 -0700

Sometimes, not to say it happens frequently, I slip into abstract ways of expressing my words and therefore my thoughts begin to seem obscure. It is because I see the principle and basic out of a specific situation and it is a hard task to present this in short. However, when I decide to be particular I can be quite. So, I am explaining clearer now what I was meaning with my previous ...

Your Honour, Mister Presley

galliag — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:00:31 -0700

Today is the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s demise and as a sign of respect to his memory, I dedicate my classes of today entirely to him, to the "Big Boss Man", to the "King Of The Whole Wide World". The King of Rock. It was not easy to decide which to choose – a dynamic situation, some shortage of time and his great legacy. I have only been aware that when I find it, I ...

My Fixations?! Passions?! Obsessions?!

galliag — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:30:39 -0700

10:29 AM One minute ago. Her past… Fixation. One third lifetime spent on researching whether the Seed had been of poor quality or the Soil.10:30 AMThe minute.Her present… Passion.Crossroad left one determined step behind just one minute ago.10:31 AMNext minute onward.Her future… Obsession.Gold Rush to the Golden Mean. The Seed is spending on her new found Ground of Blossom, long dreamt and ...

Third Poetry Announcement

galliag — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:10:10 -0700

Dear Community,After a certain pause, I am ready to present my third piece of poetry. Because it is short poetry, to enrich its perceiving and for better understanding, here I submit few introduction words:The poem has been written for a flash poetry contest with an obligatory rule to consist of five lines but the power of the poem is elsewhere - in its metaphors and the complex outlay of the ...

Back to the Jungle?! Rather not

galliag — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:37:12 -0700

Though I have just returned from a long ramble, I taste the irresistible need to fly away again. Again, and right in the instant. I cannot feel my place here. Not anymore. I am a foreigner on my own homeland. Yet, it is not the land that estranges me. These are the people, the state and society. I feel a loner among my own people. Blame me, I know you can, and should I expect anything different ...

My Word to the King of Pop

galliag — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:15:15 -0700

This is my private, humble, straight-from-the-heart way to express the shock come along this sudden loss together with (because these two go together…) my respect to the great legacy he created and left to us all, to the World. And, on its notable pedestal, my deep gratitude of a human for the serious input this legacy contributed to the attempts for healing our common disturbed home-planet. ...

July Morning and Wednesday’s Road of Her Own

galliag — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:37:57 -0700

Introduction: July Morning or simply July is a peculiar later replica to the US Hippie Movement of the 60’s, an event with Bulgarian origin that takes place on the eve and in the morning of the first day of July. The idea is to get together by the sea, meaning to the East, in order to meet the first rays of the morning sun. The meaning is associated with the protest against Communism and was ...

The Patriarchal Model

galliag — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:48:11 -0700

If you are interested in the rest of the world, this is another column that I scribe following my observations on Bulgarian mentality. Well, most or some of these features are not limited to these certain boundaries only and can be applicable to humans in general.Features of Bulgarian Mentality,Feature manifestation number oneImagine the following situation. There is a boy in a family and he is ...

Travel in Times of Trouble

galliag — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:35:15 -0700

The sun has been bizarre these days. Was it due to the serial portion of huge stress I have undergone recently or it was just the air pressure, or because of nature of the season I shall not know, but the sun has been bizarre these days.Fragments of pavement is what I remember from my latest walks around the neighborhood. Fragments of pavement that speed up under my feet likewise the highway band ...

Rain when He Dies, Rain when She Lives, Rain when He Gets Born Again

galliag — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:05:17 -0700

It was April 20 when I wrote the draft of my Wednesday’s presentation, the Holy Monday of Orthodox Easter with all the Christians’ joy and glory that our God’s Resurrection had brought among us and within our hearts. It coincided with another date of our history; an event of smaller, human, scale happened to a man and special to just a part of humankind, yet sad to those us all. That day ...

Another Way To Say Hello

galliag — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:30:57 -0700

This is the very start of my column here where I am going to write about music and its wholesome reflection on my world. I named it “The Old School Classes” because I shall scribe there about rock, and roll, and the music in general but mostly from the legendary times behind us, and I shall do it along with the feelings, pictures and ideas it stirrs out of my inner self. Together with a ...

She is a NaNoWriMo Winner.

galliag — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:50:14 -0800

Beginning withWord Count of 00,000 andRegistration Date of Nov. 05 2008,Her "at least five words" were,"I am participating in NaNoWriMo.Just saving the rest for my novel." Finishing with Word Count of 50,020 and Validation Date of Nov. 25 2008,My "at least five words" are,I am a NaNoWriMo Winner.Sparing now for the rest of my novel. NaNoWriMo ...

Experiencing First Novel: Report Two

galliag — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:00:18 -0800

The following is an excerpt from my novel manuscript. In case there is an eventual question of why I stayed silent the previous week, it should impress an idea of an eventual answer. Then it came,“My desert period as I call this full of agony decade in which prolonged my relation with him. Yes, it was agony, I had used to be an ocean, and then run dry and turned into a desert.”She ...