Flower Charades. Do you enjoy solving various kinds of charades? No? Perhaps you're too busy and don't have time for such silly games, but I sometimes enjoy doing this, and you don't necessarily have to

A lost star in a tiny galaxy. Science fiction writers tried to convince us that galaxies can be tiny, and we saw this in the movie Men in Black, and you know, there's quite a bit of truth in that fantasy

Like people. The photographs you'll see below show only representatives of the microworld, which we call mosses and lichens, molds and various types of fungi, or fungi. Their lives seem very slow to us,

Si en algo estaremos de acuerdo es que la resiliencia no suena épica cuando estás en medio del problema.

El otro día iba en mi transporte camino al trabajo y pude ver varios autos corriendo de forma errada, casualmente era día de pago y pensamos que podría ser que la gente estaba tomada o algo así. Unos metros

“Yazmin!” Noora called, striding over to my side of the room, her eyes wide and excited as she slapped grandma's diary open on my laps. “Read this part,” she pointed to a paragraph written in elegant

Cautious steps. There's a saying that sometimes, to achieve something, you need to act quickly, decisively, even at lightning speed, without giving your opponent a chance to figure out what's going on.

The annual, crucial exam. When I was in school, I waited for it all to finally end and I'd stop thinking about exam time and preparation at the end of spring. Maybe some people enjoyed that feeling of

It doesn't smell like lilac yet. I noticed one thing, perhaps insignificant: it smells like lilac, gentlemen! Yes, usually at this time of year, the deep scent of lilac, which is abundant around here,

A little fantastical, a little realistic, a little moody and a little cheerful, a little sunny and a little shady, this landscape emerged after working on a photograph of an old, lifeless tree stump, which

When I think about what people call a portrait, I dwell on the idea of ​​emotion. If we see emotions in a painting that literally speak to us, it's definitely a portrait, no matter who's in front of me—a

Sunbathing. Sunbathing is wonderful, especially when you're lying on the warm sand on the first day of vacation after a hard year of work and you're able to get to the sea. But even acorns in the forest

Zaynab was late again. I scanned the bar upon entering and picked a spot in a corner. A young man with a towel hanging from his shoulder approached with a swagger. “What would you like to drink tonight?”

It doesn't matter when exactly you return home, whether at sunset or sunrise, but the sun's rays at these times transform the return home into something special and symbolic. For the next competition,

Simplicity without nuances. Simple things, or simple tasks, at first glance seem devoid of any complex nuances, like the simple communication of two birds that understand each other with a half-glance,

Dreams and drawings. I've noticed that if dreams are accurate and well-thought-out, the drawings turn out more or less realistic. It's always more enjoyable to draw a true dream, one that resembles something

Bury the evidence! My instinct whispered so loud I jumped, looking around to find the person who said that. I held the plate, listening for a sound, any sound of Anna, my wife, approaching. The distant

New Year. For each person, New Year is something special and very personal, aside from the wild moments of celebration, which are, in theory, present for everyone, only the degree of this activity varies.

Sometimes people wonder what constitutes ideal tranquility, because sometimes they leave the city for a while to escape the bustle of the city. Whether or not one finds this tranquility is a very personal

As night falls, the city plunges into darkness. Colors fade, outlines become blurry. This continues until the sun suddenly decides to emerge from its warm crib and wake up, taking care of some important