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SLOVAK IN AUSTRALIA

April 12, 2009 in The culture is glue but love is greater connection | Tags: , | Leave a comment

A native orchid

Droplets of snow

YOU CAN SEE THE UNIVERSE IN ONE PARTICULAR FLOWER

I remember the first time I looked around and wanted to make sense what is happening around me. It was snowing. It was cold outside, but my Grandmother’s hug felt warm. Where I am, who I am and how I fit with everything around me. It happened long time ago on another continent, in another time. I keep searching. I want to understand our universe and my place in it. Bushwalking in Porongurup I stopped and looked at this particular flower. When I looked up I realized that there are more flowers hiding under bushes.I might be able to understand the universe by studying that particular flower. If I appreciate it and keep my mind open about the relationship of that flower to all others, by the time I connect it with everything in natural world, I’ll have the universe.

I stopped and looked back at my life. I am just one particular individual with my own emotions, intelligence and consciousness,with my own life history, memories, experiences and knowledge, lived in different countries, speaking in different languages /English is not my native language as you have already noticed/ and my perception of this particular flower, my attitude toward this flowers is individual. How do I connect with you and with everyone and everything around me?  How to make sense of universe and our place in it in our fast living and information over loading modern world?

Reading history we know that we are all descended from African people. Neverthelles all human history is full of hatred among people based on cultural, religious or just perceptional differences. Some argue that we needed time to develop. New research confirmed that they were modern in their behaviour long before that ‘Red Sea Crossing’.  A hundred thousand years ago, humans were identical mentally to us.

Today, both as individuals and as a species, we face deadly serious problems, including terrorism, nuclear threat, overpopulation, poverty, famine, environmental degradation, climate change and serious illnesses such as cancer…  We are lost, depressed and scarred.  Many of us look for some spiritual guidance in form of different religions or self-help books. Our psyches will never be totally reducible, computable, predictable or explainable.  It is our ‘treasure chest’, it is ‘who we are’ but it is very ‘fragile thing’.

I invite you to explore my history, to explore my particular life and thinking processes with me.  Listen to me, connect with me and together maybe we can look at the universal from looking at the particular.

WELCOME TO MY DREAMLAND…where truth and fiction blends…

where my past, present and future blend into a kaleidoskop of images. When I write, I take the basic ingredients of my characters from those images in my head. Some have a bit of me in them and others are not much like me at all. The places are real but my characters are fictional as I have to respect privacy of all the people I met in my life. There is a true link in every one of them...a thin thread of truth which binds us all together...people of my dreams from the past, I love so much...

THE SONG OF VICTORIES AND DEFEATS or WHO AM I AND WHERE DO I COME FROM?
My ancestors, the Western Slavs lived about 500 AD in the Samo's Empire (an agricultural-pastoral community. Their first state was the Great Moravian Empire in the 9th Century, where the agriculture was the basis of the economy. The coming of the Magyars and the annexation of Slovakia into the Hungarian state in the course of the 10th and 11th century slowed down of the Slovak development because part of the population was conquered and part fled to the infertile Northern districts. From the 13th to the 18th centuries in time of great oppression, serfdom, natural catastrophes 9fire, droughts, flood) or wars, occupations, raids by Tartars and Turks decline occurs and return to hunting and food gathering. The 18th century brought the enlightened reforms of Maria Theresia and Joseph II, the development of education, culture and rise of agricultural production followed. Serfdom was abolished in the middle of 19th century. The break up of the Monarchy and the creation of the Czechoslovakia followed in the beginning of the 20th century. Following two World Wars brought stagnation and depression. Before the First World War the rearing of sheep was very important and the soft sheep cheese was valued throughout the world. After the Second World War the greatest challenge was collectivization and socialization, especially in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. The introduction of mass collectivization in Slovakia was a very radical intervention causing deep, difficult to heal wounds in the body of Slovak nation. There was an effort to liquidate the independent peasant who owned his soil. Entry into a united farming cooperative was compulsory and who sabotaged the idea of building socialism was declared a class enemy and shot. It was a deep intervention not only into ownership, but also into the psychology of people and the moral sphere. To scare people even more, the Russian tanks followed... It was time, when I was born....I write about some of my experiences ....although not in order......good reading,love from Beata