台風

The saying exists: "The man closer to the God in time when rain is going".. Typhoon is going with the great rains on this land, wounded by earthquakes and tsunami.

Yes, I like here, but it is not because of the people or the social values. It is something another, something sitting deep inside the subconscious, something that was born a long time ago. It is something absolutely like lake Baikal - you just know that it is yours.

A year ago I saw the typhoon. I remember myself watching through the wet window of a bus and thinking that I will change everything because everything is possible. You just really have to want it.

Tokyo (Shinjuku)

The first free day in Tokyo I spent on doing nothing. I just was walking, making photos and nothing more. So, how it was:

About the joy and sorrow things

Sometimes we meet different crippled people - someone without hands or legs, someone feeble-minded, someone blind or deaf, someone with such another illness. Before I had pity and compassion for them, now - sometimes irritation (mostly because of gipsy mafia that use crippled people for begging).

But in any case we (I mean healthy people) even can't imagine how potentially we are happy with ability of hands, legs and vision. I can stand up and go anywhere, I can earn money, I can climb the mountain.. I'm omnipotent in comparing with them.

In the spleen times when I feel myself in the lower depths, I'm thinking about them. And it works. "Children of Africa" is far and in present time this phrase doesn't mean the real children. But these people here, around us..