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Pushkin [Jul. 10th, 2008|06:01 pm]
ПТИЧКА

В чужбине свято наблюдаю
Родной обычай старины:
На волю птичку выпускаю
При светлом празднике весны.

Я стал доступен утешенью;
За что на бога мне роптать,
Когда хоть одному творенью
Я мог свободу даровать!


chitau Pushkina na rabote. Vecher tikhiy, pered shtormom.
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[Jul. 3rd, 2008|03:48 pm]
Work is ok: it is work and school is exciting. MS is much more challenging than BA.
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[Jul. 3rd, 2008|02:17 pm]
All right, I am back!!!
Things are going on slow. I am taking classes for my masters in Elementary ed at Hunter College, and working part time in the office of the registar.
I enjoy my life with my husband. I read Foma all the time.
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Wedding Photos [Aug. 31st, 2007|06:16 pm]

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[Aug. 22nd, 2007|05:22 pm]

Дорогие Друзья,  Очень прошу ваших молитв. (Евгения) Все идет, но много стресса. Спасибо.

Dear Friends, please keep me in your prayers. (Yevgeniya) It's ok, but I have a lot of stress. Thank you.

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[May. 24th, 2007|09:23 am]

Дорогие френды, расскажите как вы вписываетесь в ваш коллектив на работе.
Я недавно начала работать в Lighthousе - агенство по трудоустройству слабовидящих, и пока еще налаживаю контакры с остальными людьми и с руководством.  Хотя я работаю всего 8-15 часов в неделю, каждый день это "битва" с самой собой. Сейчас мне легче чем в начале, но все еще каждый новое задание нужно перестраивастья. Я вынуждена общаться с людьми по работе и у меня это вызывает стресс. Люди хотят одно, другие другое, у каждгого свое. Иногда забегаешь на чужую территорию, нужно понять правильное разделение труда. У каждого свой взгляд на мир и на то как работа выполняется, хотя результаты примерно похожие. Например в агентсве кто то мягче, кто то жесче, кто то разговорчивей. Мне пришлось купить новую одежду и обувь, т.к. то что я носила в институте не прошло "дресс контроль". И еще у меня большая отчетность, после каждой встречи с подопечным, я должна писать отчет. Также я пишу каждую неделю что я делала в какие часы чтобы получить зарплату. Вот. Немного говорила с ними о вере, отношения полунегативные, но и поулпозитивные.
Также если кто преподает или родитель - как вы мотивируете детей чтобы они вас слушались? Часто я говорю со своими подопечными (слепыми) а они обещают или не делают, обижаются, и вообще отлынивают. Мне нужны советы. Спасибо.
Женя

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[May. 11th, 2007|10:33 am]
I went to the gym yesterday. I had a class with an instructor from Queens College. We did a lot of excersies on my back using medicine ball, weights, machines and stretches. Now my  back hurts, but I can also feel muscle growing on my back.
I signed up for 4 sessions, 30$ each, two in May and two in June.
The instructor is also a student at QC, he took a special class. There are 2 personal fitness trainer in our QC gym, both are students. The sercvice is getting to be very popular.
I plan to work in the summer, and go back to Graduate School in the fall.
My class will finish next week. I have a final, I need to study for it!
I am also doing a group study plan with my group for 3rd grade science lesson on animals. I am writing up about a trip to the Bronx Zoo. This is a suggested trip. I got information on Bronx Zoo website.
I applied to several jobs on the internet. However, I think I want to stay in school for 1 more year. I need to get more teching skills. Teaching requires you to stay in the present. A lot of people from my Woodside church have something to do with teaching, and a couple of people from Christ the Savior also do.
I am going to a concert with Jerry : Town Hall presesents Free for All series. This Sunday is a mother's day. Happy Mother's Day!
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[May. 3rd, 2007|03:16 pm]

This book was published in Russia. 

The Mystery of Childhood (Conversations on the Christian Nurture of Children with Archmonk Father Viktor Mamontov, by Ilya and Marina Grits.  (Original Russian work)  Father Viktor Mamontov is a Russian Orthodox priest and monk steeped in the ancient ascetic traditions and practices of the ancient church but who by no means has lost touch with today's generation.  Father Viktor, who compares the church to “a great kindergarten in which God is trying to bring us all up,” has a special gift for communicating matters of faith to children.  In these conversations Father Viktor shares the secrets of teaching and learning with children in the church.

I wonder which American/British/New Zeland publishers might be interesting in publishing it in English. We have 3 sample chapters translated. 

I also did a translation of Fr. Victor's sermon "The Sacrament of Freedom"
http://janice2001.livejournal.com/41757.html#cutid1

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[May. 3rd, 2007|02:57 pm]
Hi All,
I wonder how many of my Russian speaking friends can understand my English written post.
I know that those of you who speak English only do not read Russian, so apoligize, but I can't translate all my writings both languages: it's way too much work and I get lost in  the middle. In addition, I don't write that much.
So, as I continue doing freewriting, free writing, writing freely for free, the continuation of exploration of my soul continues. I guess LJ can become a confession stand, except I would not bring my sins there, so not to confuse the readers, and to keep my identity private, but rather to a priest. 
I am back in the virtual world, chasing the unknown. The Great Lent, but even more the Passion week were great, when I finally faced the real world not with upset feelings or feelings for superiority, but rathe in the light of services at church and trying to help. Now a lot of things make me upset: like not getting a refund on something, or the sudden need to change my appearance to become more professional and fit/do a better job at my new workplace at the Lighthouse.
Lighthouse is a pericular job: while the weekly pay is modest and there is no stability, it is not exploitive, and I get to meet and work together (not just side by side as in the Writing Center) with a diverse group of people. One of my collegues and several of my clients are openly gay. They are not "hitting on me", but they also are frank about their lifestyles. A couple of my clients are Christians. My boss is visually impared, and several other low and high end employees are blind as well. I have to work with them and with my individual boss on a project: preparing our visuall impared and multi disabeled clients for an entry level job. The people with disabilities and people who work with people with disabilities are a very peculiar group. I think  that that job gives me a side of coporation. Also, the bible study that I go to that meets in our church warden's house is also giving me that. Year ago, that place was hard because of all the intercommunication of people and also I did not have the job. Now it got easier, as my surrondings got harder and also as I continued coming to the same place and speaking with the same people, I tried to change to adjust to them. There were time periods - months when I have not been there. Then there were months when I went there 2 times a month.
It is so hard to me to talk about political issues. I have opinions: acutually a lot of them. They shift. I am not a radical, but rather a flip flopper - since  not all politicians have all that I need: christian centerness, openess with others, patriotism, respect. Today, USA will be talking with Syria - finally realizing they can't do everything on their own and just impose their ideas on other countries. And yet, so many coutnries, including Russia, take on that image willingly. 
I was more involved with media and virtual world. I remember my Media Studies professor told me: watch out, in the future people will have to make a choice: to be in this world or to live in a virtual world. I guess virtual world has sins and virtues (just look at the media review), and yet real world and participation in it is needed for me now and here, to be here and now since God is "I AM", the sacred name of YHWH, indicating the everlasting presence in past, present and all.

 
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[Apr. 28th, 2007|11:53 am]
So everything is going nice and slowly, amid the political instabilities in the world, my little world is progressing rather nicely. I became more interested in fashion, matching, and looking chick. No major changes, but some minor adjustments to the overall dressing style.
Jerry and I continuing to talk about marrige, now we are officially engaged (no ceremony, but just mutual recognition), and the wedding date will be late in August. 
I may be going to Latvia to visit Fr. Victor, God is willing. He was sick for some time, but is somewhat better now. If time and money plays out right: i.e. if I will get ticket on Delta Skymiles, and if the timing is right, than I will go. 
I don't do translations right now, just read a lot.
My family is on some nervours issues: we have issues with grandparents: arranging care for my grandmother in Russia, who has a somewhat difficult character, like all people, and that was on our heads this week. 
Other news: my friend Julia is planning to get married. I don't know when yet, but probably in August or July.
3 tutors (including me) are getting married during the summer: 2 in June and me in August. We thought of having an engagment party for all of us, but we ran out of time to plan it, so we just exchanged remarks; we might still do something next Thursday for the tutor meeting. 
Anyway, I feel more comfortable writing in English than in Russian, even though I now have a Russian keybord at my writing center  job. I am becoming more Americanized, I hope not in the bad sence, there is a lot of good that comes from America: voluntereesm, study, innovation and change. I am also changing to become an adult: as my boss Jenine from the Lighthosue said, "we are no longer 16." She is also 24, just turned 25. She is ok. It took me 4 months to get used to her style, and the whole Lighthouse, but then again, it took me about the same amount of time to adjust to the Writing Center.
Well, it turns another long post. 
I wonder if I can finish it with a poem.
There was a nice poem, Faithful, that I wrote. Here is a shorter version.
Faithful friendship 
survives
Over dust
Over lust
Over irony and fear
Over joy
Over challenging work
When in love
Friendship grows and glows. 

Peace-N-Love
YP
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[Apr. 20th, 2007|06:53 pm]

Архим. Виктор (Мамонтов) (Карсава, Латвия) 
Тайна умаления

Начиная жизнь в Церкви, человек ожидает, что он будет становиться лучше и лучше, сильнее и сильнее, мудрее и мудрее, - христианство он воспринимает как некую программу самоусовершенствования, восхождения по лестнице добродетелей. Ведь Господь всех нас призвал к совершенству: “Итак будьте совершенны, как совершен Отец ваш Небесный” (Мф 5:48).

Но наступает пора недоумения, когда с человеком происходит противоположное тому, что он ожидал: нет никаких видимых успехов. Он раздражается и смущается. На исповеди говорит: “У ме-ня нет любви, нет смирения, нет терпения”. В чем причина? Все потому, что, ожидая даров от Бога и получая их, он все больше и больше начинает уповать на сами эти дары. Центр тяжести духовной жизни незаметно смещается, и в итоге в душе человека воцаряется надежда на полученные от Бога качества, а не на Самого Бога. Человек становится накопителем богатств, пусть и духовных.

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Updated: The Mystery of Humility [Apr. 18th, 2007|03:49 pm]
The Mystery of Diminishment
Archimandrite Victor (Mamontov)


Self-perfection as a dangerous program
Beginning his life in the Church, a person expects that he would become better and better, stronger and stronger, wiser and wiser; he sees Christianity as a program of self-perfection, ascension on the ladder of virtues. Indeed, the Lord has called all of us to perfection: “Therefore, be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect” (Mathew. 5:48)
But an uneasy time comes as a person experiences the opposite of what he has expected: he has no tangible advance. He frets and is embarrassed. In confession he says, “I don’t have love, humility or patience.” What is the cause of this?
It happens because while expecting gifts from God and receiving them, he becomes more and more reliant on the gifts themselves. The substantial center of the spiritual life gradually shifts; and as a result, the hope on virtues that were received from God and not on God Himself prevails in the person’s soul. A person becomes an accumulator of wealth let of spiritual value.


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a poem I found on the Internet [Apr. 18th, 2007|02:46 pm]
The Little Child

By Albert Bigelow Paine


A SIMPLE-HEARTED child was He,
And He was nothing more;
In summer days, like you and me,
He played about the door,
Or gathered, where the father toiled. 5
The shavings from the floor.

Sometimes He lay upon the grass,
The same as you and I,
And saw the hawks above Him pass
Like specks against the sky; 10
Or, clinging to the gate, He watched
The stranger passing by.

A simple child, and yet, I think,
The bird-folk must have known,
The sparrow and the bobolink, 15
And claimed Him for their own,—
They gathered round Him fearlessly
When He was all alone.

The lark, the linnet, and the dove,
The chaffinch and the wren, 20
They must have known His watchful love
And given their worship then;
They must have known and glorified
The child who died for men.

And when the sun at break of day 25
Crept in upon His hair,
I think it must have left a ray
Of unseen glory there,
A kiss of love on that little brow
For the thorns that it must wear. 30
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Архимандрит Виктор (Мамонтов) в Интернет сети [Apr. 11th, 2007|05:51 pm]
Архимандрит Виктор (Мамонтов) в сети:

в биоблиотеке Якова Кротова:
http://www.krotov.info/spravki/persons/21person/mamontov.html

на Православном Вестнике
http://prav-vest.ru/./index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=303&Itemid=1

на сайте православной америке (на английском):
http://www.roca.org/OA/111/111c.htm
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Complete Tranlsation of Fr. Victor (Mamontov) "The Sacrament of Freedom" [Apr. 7th, 2007|04:22 pm]

The Sacrament of Freedom

Archimandrite Victor (Mamontov)

 

I would like to greet all of you who came to the conference; unfortunately, my participation today is by long-distance. I will communicate with you through my voice. I would like to talk about the noble deed of freedom.

Lord Jesus Christ said, “You did not choose me. Instead, I chose you.” Isn’t there a violation of personal freedom in this act of selection? I do not choose, but I am chosen.

           

 

 

Happy Easter Eveyone!


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[Apr. 7th, 2007|04:13 pm]
Христос Воскресе!
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My painting excersise [Mar. 28th, 2007|07:46 pm]
( Посмотреть в полный размер, 79,57 КБ, 750x1000 ) I just did it on Paint. I love drawing. I used to draw on Paint a lot. I don't do it as much now, though; but I was listening to some podcast on the internet (Actually from Foma site), and then I just opened the file and started drawing. I draw a lot when I am at school or at work (by hand). Anyway, I keep stressing out about my new job (as a job coach). I have 3 supervisors and they all want differend things, and just balancing it out and also adjusting to the new workplace is difficult. The pay is good though: they have never cheated me or did anything wrong; it comes out every two weeks, whatever I earned, I am getting it. Plus I finally see "the real world" as they call it, so I can gossip about it with my friends from church. Plus I have a little money. Not much, but at least I don't have to ask my parents for everything. Anyway, I feel a little better now. My parents are not home yet. I just finished cooking pasta for them for the evening. The pasta basically cooked itself, I just made sure there was water in it. Today was a warm day.
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Несколько мыслей [Mar. 24th, 2007|08:07 pm]

Во первых -
Вера на работе: на работе много стресса, но как люди решают его. Кто то напивается по выходным, кто то скачет из одного отношение в другое. Я думаю что я не могу судить своих коллег, т.к. сама виновна или была виновна в своих грехах, и совсем не такая прозрачная как я хотела бы считать. И власть меня привлекает. Также я думаю что я стала более снисходительно относится к людям в своей церкви - да у них много грехов, но у людей вокруг них не ходящих в церковь грехов еще больше или по крайней мере столько же. Поэтомо на их фоне, мои старые знакомые из церкви выглядят более сносными людьми. Я думаю что я даже могу чему то у них научится, а также научиться как они общаются с окружающим миром.

Второе и отдельное -
Я заметила что у многих моих знакомых $ больше чем у меня. Может от того что я была иммигранткой, а сейчас работаю неполный день, но только сейчас я начала находить людей которые тратят деньги как и я, и могут пойти развлекаться на том же уровне. На пример, Шэрон, тоже преподает в школе, сейчас в отгуле. Мы встретились недавно в колледже и поели и пообщались. Так как у нас похожий доход, мы не тащили друг друга в мероприятия в которых другой человек не может позволить себе участвовать. Кстати, в моем храме, доход у всех разный. У некоторых моих знакомых (бугалтера, врачи, програмисты) он намного выше а у других (учитель,  телефоный оператор с 2 детьми) тоже не очень высокий. Поэтому бывает что мне нравится человек, но допустим она говорит "Пошли на уроки танго!" а я не могу себе этого позволить (пока). Вот говоришь "нет". С другой стороны сейчас я общаюсь с Леной - она учится на учителя (ее муж програмист). Мы встречались с ними и Джерри пару раз, ходили на бейсбольный матч, и просто гуляли по Нью Йорку. Еще она иногда подвозит меня до дома, когда они едут к физиотерапевту в Квинсе.

Сейчас читаю книгу Перта Елбоу "Пишите с Уверенностью". В общем, решила писать в ЖЖ, даже если получается чушь.

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[Mar. 19th, 2007|04:46 pm]
Do you also have MySpace account?
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Acrhimandrite Victor (Mamontov) The Mystery of Humility [Mar. 16th, 2007|07:49 pm]
Nice for Lent.
Unfinished translation of Fr. Victor sermon "mystery of humility". Fr. Victor is an orthodox priest (archimandrite) in Latvia, he is a very thoughtful person with deep spiritual experience.

The Mystery of Humility
Archimandrite Victor (Mamontov)


Self-improvement as a dangerous program
When a person begins his life in the Church, he expects that he would become better and better, stronger and stronger, wiser and wiser; he sees Christianity as a program of self-improvement, ascension on the ladder of virtues. Indeed, the Lord has called us all to perfection: “Therefore, be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect” (Mathew. 5:48)
Then comes an uneasy time when a person experiences the opposite of what he has expected: he has no noticeable success. He becomes angry and humiliated. In confession he says, “I have no love, no humility and no patience.” What is the cause of this?

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