Windows to Russia

Father Pavel is the monk in charge of the monastery in our village. Yesterday was a special holiday for the Orthodox (Holiday Here,) It was interesting for me and I got kind of excited about the holiday. Then after the bell was done ringing, the sermon was done and everyone left, or so I thought. […]

Remember the Snake-Oil Salesmen? The transcript of Obama’s year-end press conference reveals him as a snake-tongued liar and deceiver without equal in the current US political hierarchy. From his initial assumption that in the case of Syria it is right and proper for the US to “speak out on behalf of its values” when Assad […]

Yes you read correctly! Jolly Old Saint Nicholas or as known by; “Santa Claus” to many! Saint Nicholas’ Day, observed on December 6 (in Western Christian countries) and 19 December (in Eastern Christian countries), is the feast day of Saint Nicholas.[2] It is celebrated as a Christian festival with particular regard to his reputation as […]

Yesterday I met the lady at the white home. Boza and I were following her trail as she dragged her sled into the woods, back and forth, from home. We wanted to see what she was doing! We talked to her for a minute, when we found her on her way back from the woods. […]

“What most concerns the [New York] Times is that the crude politics of Trump shatters the lying rhetoric used by Democrats and Republicans alike to justify the policies of the ruling class, at home and abroad. Thus, it worries that Trump is doing “serious damage” to the country’s “reputation overseas” by “twisting its message of […]

Yesterday was a beautiful day, cold as hell, but beautiful. The sun tried its best to warm what it can, but when father frost is fully awake, she just has to take second fiddle during the winter. The issue is that the sun never stays around long enough to make a difference. I guess she […]

This morning while we walked it was -10 and snow blowing like crazy. The wind was flying at 11 m/s and Boza and I fought drifts as we walked around the tiny Russian village. Our home is fine and drifts are small in our yard, due to a fence, but the roads were deep and […]

I have not said much about this subject and have simply watched to see what America and Europe would do about their lies. I would so very much love to believe that this was Russian propaganda, but we all know at this point that this western lead war is a farce and that ISIS is […]

Boza and I walked deep into the woods. We decided to see what is happening with the forest creatures. Not much was happening, but we did find sign of life; A damn beer can in the middle of nowhere… We had walked uphill, downhill and all around the hills and in the deepest part we […]

Boza and I walked in the snow this morning, so dark and so cold! The shortest day (December Solstice (Winter Solstice)) is coming of the whole year; right now sunrise is 8:26 and sunset is 15:55 and the shortest day (December 22nd, 2015) will be about 9:00 to 16:00, almost exactly a seven hour day […]