Spectacular!

 World didn't end, we're just a step before New Year 2013! 

 I wish each one of you to be spectacular, to feel spectacular, to live spectacular! Do spectacular things, dare to dream of spectacular things, wear spectacular dresses! Plenty of minutes and moments will pass unnoticeable in your lives but cherish few, even the simplest ones, as the best treasures! Focus on what's good and what gives you hope, reach for what you want, let the world and people surprise you. Let you surprise yourself! Forget about old rules and set new ones, discover unknown lands, don't take anything for granted. Look for love and happiness and don't be ashamed of it. Shape your life, don't let others to do that instead. 

Live! Love! Laugh!

After Christmas post

 No matter how long you prepare and wait for Christmas, they always end and require coming back to reality after them. That's their charm and flaw. I hope your Christmas were as calm, happy and relaxing as mine, with family and dear people, without internet and worries, with dreamed gifts and delicious dishes.

  

  From tomorrow shops will be opened again, people will get up in the morning to go to work, all the machinery called "Life" will start again. For a while we could feel like in another, better reality. But few days will pass and we'll be in New Year's Eve rush. People like to have something to wait for, some special days marked in calendar with different color than grey. I'm also trying to make some days so special but they got mixed with everyday routine that sometimes turns out to be even more extraordinary and surprising than special occasions. Both kinds of days- usual and unusual ones are still the same life. Just as your favorite cd with two-three amazing songs and the rest of them that still makes this music your best.  

Intuition

 I had a teacher at university that used to praise cats as perfect creatures and, what's more, perfect killers- with their great hearing, silent step, paws with "automatic" claws, eyes seeing perfectly in the dark. Oh, not mentioning their ability to fall always on four paws and 9 lives. What else can we do, us poor human beings, than to be under the rule of the cats? ;)

 Cats were mentioned here not without any reason. In literature they symbolize magic, sensitivity, omen. We also have catlike element in us- i n t u i t i o n . We intuitively sense best friends and beloved ones. Sometimes you feel such a strong need of eating certain things- it's your intuition telling you what you need. (But why, oh why it has to be chocolate all the time? :D ) 

 Try to listen to the quiet voice prompting you new ideas and paths and see what will happen :)

 

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Talent

  Talent is a very complicated thing. When I hear about talented person, I picture artist or musician. Talented can be also actor, athlete, dancer, scientist, cook. I have a feeling that the way I see talent is very narrow and unfair, because I connect it with an occupation, with the fields when it can be the most visible. Talent is something very personal and individual- even among artists someone has talent to combine colors, someone has interesting line, someone perfectly captures moments, someone sculptures with amazing precision.

 I used to think that talent is a very rare gift. That on the whole planet there are only few lucky ones and the rest can just admire their greatness.  But now I'm much closer to the idea that talent is actually something really common (which doesn't mean it's worthless!). It's banality but: EVERYONE HAS TALENT. And talents are like snowflakes- you won't find two identical. It's a real talent to stay calm and find a solution for your problems. Some people have that amazing ability to always find the right words, describe the simplest things in an interesting way or tell the jokes. A friend matches simple clothes in fabulous sets and the other one finds amazing things in second hands.

 It's cool to live on a planet full of talented people :)

Nobility

  There must be something that differs common novels with the ones that become classic. And I don't mean here bestsellers that New York Times described as "Amazing book!" but books that take place in canon of literature.

  There must be something that differs one movies from another. Some of them won Oscar prize but it's not the distinction that I'm talking about here. I mean the movies that stay in the global memory as good, valuable ones. 

  There must be something that differs people. Of course except the obvious outer shell. Some of them stay unnoticeable while some we remember all our lives. 

 Nowadays everyone can be a writer, painter, photographer, designer, actor, someone famous. It's a huge privilege of our times but also a curse. Privilege because  you don't need to graduate from a prestigious university to be accepted as a talented man. Curse because it's harder to distinct who's real creator and who "just" has skills.

Warmers

  Cold days have come and with them warmer thoughts about coats, sweaters, caps and gloves. It's my little winter pleasure to wrap a long wool scarf around my neck, making sure that there's no way for the cold to slide under it. Or to hide under fluffy blanket, armed with mug of hot tea (with lemon and honey). 

 Another of my little guilty pleasures is to make lists. So here you go!

 Martka's favorite winter warmers:

  - mulled wine & beer (will they taste sooo good in summer???)
  - cinnamon (yep, known from its warming  up properties; pinch in a coffee or in carrot cake!)
  - cap (since I heard that 70 or 90% of your warmth 'escapes' through your head)
  - thick hot soups (mmm, can you feel the warmth spilling in your body?)
  - ice skates, sledges, snow fight, winter walks (just to produce more warmth and more endorphins!)
  - long lazy evening spent with the ones you love (aww, instantly warmer in your heart)
  - looking for best gifts marathon (that adrenaline...)

 How about you? Do you have any favorite warmers? :)