My first memory (Michael's topic)

The first thing which I remember is the event when my grandfather was walking arm in arm my grandmother to the kitchen.

In that moment my grandmother was very ill, I don’t remember her death, I don’t remember her burial, I don’t remember my emotions, my feelings. I have few memories from my childhood but this moment is the only moment I remember in colors from my early childhood, it is my first memory. I was 2 years old.

There is such love, such care between my grandparents, I was really surprised, because there were many people who were younger and stronger than my grandfather, his child, but he helped her go to the kitchen. It was hard for her to walk at that time and he helped her, because he felt that she needed him, not only his help, but his love and his care.

My mum and dad told me a lot of stories about my childhood, but not this. It’s my memory, it’s not from photos and videos, I remember it from time from time, because it is in my head, in my soul.

It is the only memory about my grandmother, because she died when I was two years old, but I remember her not only due to photos.

Topics for blog #8

1.  27 Club. What do you think about this? Do you believe that when talented musicians died at this age, it is common? Do you like the Morrison’s, Winehouse’s, Cobain’s, Hendrix’ or Jones’ songs?
2.   Write about your lovely TV series. Do you prefer English, American or Russian TV series
3.    Breakfast Club. Have you seen this film? Do you like it?

7. L. O. V. E.

What is love personally for you? What do you thing the word 'love' means? Maybe, you have some thoughts about love you want to share.

Over futile odds,

And laughed at by the Gods

And now the final frame

Love is a losing game 

Amy Winehouse

Now, L-O-V-E's just another word I never learned to pronounce

3OH!3 

What is love? I think it is a belief that people imagined. It is not real, but some people believe in it.

We can say what is kindness, bravery, laziness and so on. Everybody can determinate this things practically similar, but love every one determinate in very different ways. Someone can say that this feeling comes and goes out; someone can say that if you feel love that is forever, I just think that love is only a baseless belief, what people call love is only a habit to be together.

There are so many songs about love, so many films, novels and poems about it, but it isn’t in real life. “Romeo and Juliet” is a fiction, yes, it’s really beautiful story, but it’s a fiction.

Do you believe in love? Do you believe in pure, innocent love? If you think about it sometime, I think you say no, because there is not love in our hard and cruel world.

 

6. Free choice. Postcrossing

Not so long time ago my friend told me about postcrossing, it's a process, when you send a postcard to a random person and receive back from a random person too. No limits. You can write on a postcard what ever you want. You can paint. You can tell the story.

For sending and receiving cards you must log in on this site http://www.postcrossing.com. Users often write what postcards they want to receive, for example, "I really like black and white postcards" or they can ask you to write something, for example date or phrase in your native language. Some users like to receive postcards in envelops, others want to receive a photo instead of postcard  and so on. Everybody has different preferences.
Not so long time ago I decide to try to send a postcard (to USA). This is it (on the left side). It's the work of one of the greatest artist, Edgar Degas.
In reply I received black-and-white postcard, which I really like. It's from Smolensk, Russia. The sender write on the postcard about his city.
So, I think postcrossing is a really interesting process. You can find out a lot things about the world, you can receive a postcard from any part of the Earth.

from Smolensk

"Send a postcard and receive a postcardback from a random person in the world"