Showing posts with label Kazakhstan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kazakhstan. Show all posts

02 January 2008

2008: the Year of Truth


This year feels so different, from what we had anticipated at ZENmud productions creative energy center...

Faithful readers may forgive a post that borders on the way-too intimate... it is written to an audience of one: likely the only person on this planet who won't read it.


2007 will be long remembered for the losses sustained, globally and personally, and ZENmud will dispense briefly with the former, and concentrate more on the latter.

2007 was the year in which the Democratic party regained voter support to wrench, from the Bush misAdministration's control, the direction of the 'Ship of State'; citizens were aghast to find out that this would not change the 'ship's course', and it proved a ZENmud postulate: both United States political parties have only one interest - tapping the taxpayers' funds to aid and abet their own friends' interests...

2007
was the year in which this 2006 ZENmud statement came true, regarding the Bush DOCTRINE:

“Governing Americans can be a sick, profitable joke, and we Republicants can make this JOKE SICKER than anyone ever has...”

(Written in pink in order to honour our first Gay (or bisexual) President)


On the personal side, this year began and ended with profound hopes. Unfortunately, those whose hopes had corresponded with ZENmud's, at various times, found themselves far away as the year closed.

One was set free unwillingly, and rather abruptly, and one silently disappeared, allowing ZEN central to experience both sides of the money of rejection.

She who silently walked away... this is devoted to honouring the memory of a shared month of joy, which will never be forgotten.


Did it begin with a walk under the cold full moon, or is that when it ended?

Was it only a shoulder, that felt her hand's graceful and warmly-supportive caress? Was it only soft masculine lips, that were entranced by the beauty found in her eastern kissing habits?

When talking of the names for a baby, maybe we didn't, maybe we did...

Living in a tent, maybe she wanted to, maybe she wanted me to, or we two... or maybe not...

If we were together while afar, were we or weren't we one in spirit?

If ages were important, they were never discussed, were they, or not?

If an error happened, it did, but didn't it need to be proclaimed?

Is silence a reason or an effect, if unwanted deceit (by two beings in love) is perceived? Who blames who for what?

Not knowing, is the worst of the possible outcomes...

It would have been karma-fulfilling and relieving, to have heard:

"I cannot continue, and I wish you all the best..."
"I didn't realize, and I don't hold you responsible..."


But "ya tebya lyublyu" was the first Russian she taught, admonishing that it was reserved for people that were serious, and ready to marry...

ZENmad was such a man, for some time, and for that feeling of total serenity, the loss is less, the emptiness under repair, and the 'power outage' is restored... so much to do, in the next fifty years...


Courage, to a lover of Kazakhstan's beauty,
from a lost admirer of
that country's greatest treasure: lyublyu away....


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© 2008

05 December 2007

"...a Kazakhstani state of mind..."

sigh...

Would someone from Kazakhstan know as little about, say,
the western slope of Colorado, as ZENmud knows about her country? (photo 1: the great Tien Shan mountain range, northern extension of the Himalayas)


Yet, as the 'great exporter' of film and TV 'messages' for nearly a hundred years, the use by America of its home-grown media as 'cultural software' (a misplaced quote from Hans ____ (to be updated)), one might guess that there are more perceptions available as to 'life in the USA', than are available to those who ponder these majestic lands that make up the Eurasian landmass.

BUT!


Who wouldn't love to visit the land from which
Humanity first domesticated the Horse, and which knows one of the oldest strains of wild Apple? (photo 2: the Malus sierversii Kazakh apple)

With a landmass greater than Western Europe, prosperity from natural resources, and .... one fact that ZENresearch knew from years back, is that Kazakhstan is one of the great LAND-LOCKED countries (other than the Caspian Sea); there is no need for a Navy, and thus the country must use pipelines for its natural resources export.
(photo 3: lovely Kaindy Lake)


Not to recount boring historical facts sans cesse, but it is interesting to note that the Russian Federation has recently renewed a long term lease on an immense swath of Kazakh territory until 2050, where the Baikonur Cosmodrome
is located; this was the scene for all Soviet space launches from Vostok 1 onward.

This leased land is some 6,000 square kilometers (approx 2,300 sq. miles); a zone 60 by 100 km encompasses nearly the same sized terrain as that of the lac Léman basin (Home of ZENmud productions, the UNOG, WIPO and the UCI and IOC) in Switzerland.

Why an interest in Kazakhstan?


Is it an overwhelming interest in our stark and beautiful natural planet?

The enticement of seeing amazingly long-lasted cultures?

A desire to pursue unfulfilled dreams?

Many potential reasons...

One concrete response... a heart beats there... and if I spelled this right:

Я тeбя люблю


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