Decorations and ideas for table!!!

            Vreme novogodišnjih praznika se bliži i  to je period kada je dozvoljeno pustiti mašti na volju kada je dekoracija vašeg doma u pitanju. Novogodišnja jelka je obavezna, tako da se njeno kićenje podrazumeva, bar kada sam ja upitanju. Međutim meni je posebno interesantna dekoracija stola koja može da bude i jako jednostavna a da ipak sve izgleda efektno i svečano. Tu se rukovodim parolom - sve je dozvoljeno! ali se vise puta pokazalo da je najbolje kombinovati dve-tri boje. Krajnji rezultat zavisi samo od vaše mašte i umeća. Evo nekoliko ideja koje će Vam nadam se pomoći:

I na kraju mali podsetnik za postavljanje stola:

             Pošto je ovo moj poslednji post u staroj godini želim da  Vam čestitam  Novu godinu i predstojeće praznike sa željom da ih provedete u društvu vama dragih ljudi u zdravlju, sreći i blagostanju.

Ljubim Vas puno i hvala Vam što me čitate :-* 

                                    

                                                                       Dunja

Date a girl who reads

“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”

 Rosemarie Urquico 

:-* Dunja

'Daniel and our cats'

               Da li postoji prava ljubav? Bezuslovna i iskrena kakva prava ljubav treba da bude? Na to pitanje sam dobila odgovor  nakon odgledanog britanskog dokumentarca ‘Danijel i naše mačke' ('Daniel and our cats') koji se juče prikazivao na B92. Slučajno sam nabasala na njega vrteći bezuspešno kanale u nadi da ću naići na neki superzanimljiv film koji se eto daje nedeljom popodne (što se nikad ne desi!). Malo je reći da me je duboko potresla priča koju sam odgledala, na pojedine delove nisam mogla da zaustavim suze.

           Reč je o nagrađivanom britanskom dokumentarcu koji je producirala Julika Kennaway a koji prikazuje dirljivu priču o francuskinji Katrin i njenom neverovatnom životu u Namibiji. U sred pustinje, ona se zaljubljuje u Danijela, čoveka koji živi sa velikim afričkim mačkama. Katrin se uskoro udaje za Danijela. Njih dvoje žive idiličnim i neobičnim životom, daleko od civilizacije, sa dva leoparda i jednim lavom. Ljubav koju pružaju životinjama i koju im one uzvraćaju je neverovatna.  Međutim, jedne noći namibijske vlasti odvode Danijela u zatvor, zbog neposedovanja dozvole za držanje velikih mačaka, a životinje vode na tajnu lokaciju.

           Kada Danijel izađe iz zatvora, oni počinju novi život u Južnoj Africi sa mladučnetom lava kojeg su usvojili, još uvek se boreći da povrate svoje ljubimce iz Namibije. Posebno je dirljiv deo kada Danijel posle 2 godine dobije dozvolu da vidi svoje mačke i trenutak kada ih ugleda posle toliko vremena. Nisu ga zaboravile! Te ogromne životinje koje jednim udarcem mogu da usmrte čoveka predu kao male mace dok ih mazi.

Catherine Radziej

             I baš kada izgleda da će konačno uspeti da se ponovo ujedine sa svojim ljubimcima, sudbina zadaje još jedan težak udarac. U trenutku dok priča sa Katrin preko telefona, i kaže joj da ipak ima nade za njihove ljubimce, Danijel gine u saobraćajnoj nesreći. I posle ove strašne tragedije  Katrin nastavlja bitku za njihove mačke i uspeva nakon par godina da dobije sve potrebne papire kako bi im obezbedila miran život u privatnom rezervatu za životinje. Nakon toga se vraća u Namibiju gde je kako sama kaže provela najlepše trenutke svog života.

              Toplo vam preporučujem da pogledate. Još ako imate ljubimca, kao ja, i neizmerno volite životinje razumećete još bolje njihovu ljubav i borbu.  

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