Irina Marc

23/02/2026

Views from Moscow park that in Soviet times used to show case agricultural and production achievements of all Soviet republics.. Nowadays it turned into a park with some stores and ethnic restaurants.. An interesting touch - a statue of Lenin remains front and center…

22/02/2026

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.
From Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (Riverhead, 1996, 2005), translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.

22/02/2026

“Go to the Limits of Your Longing” (Book of Hours I, 59) by Rainer Maria Rilke God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.
From Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (Riverhead, 1996, 2005), translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

21/02/2026

17/02/2026

This program that was several years in the making is going to be rolled out soon. I am very excited and a bit scared…stay tuned:))

28/08/2024

Lake Issyk Kul

28/08/2024

Magical lake Issyk Kul