GHARNI: May 2019

kaytwit: Yarn in Krakow: Of course when my mother and I were in Krakow, we had to go on a yarn hunt. We'd found this list on Yelp only to discover it was tot...

Yarn in Krakow

Of course when my mother and I were in Krakow, we had to go on a yarn hunt. We'd found this list on Yelp only to discover it was total rubbish. Pasmentaria Klebuszek at #46 Karmelicka street was the only viable yarn shop we found. Lucky for us, we saw it every day at our Batorego tram stop. We investigated almost all the shops on this Yelp list and most were non existent or if they did exist, they were a combination of hosiery (WHY that pairing?!?) and an extremely limited selection of yarns--as in maybe 20 skeins, all acrylic and 3 colors--I'm not exaggerating.

So many of the shops in Krakow reminded me of St. Petersburg and Budapest. You'd see these window box type advertisements when you looked for the street number. Then you had to look for the main doorway/gate into the courtyard of the building. So many apartments were also arranged like this.

Once you find the main door, you make your way down the hall into the courtyard and look for your business.

This yarn shop was the most extensive we found. The shop owner didn't speak much English but was very helpful in spite of the language barrier. The store had signs and placards all over advertising Katia yarns. I asked him if they sold only Katia yarns and he pointed out different brands throughout the store. Some were Polish, some Czech, some English, "but no Turkish yarns," which struck me as funny. In big chain craft stores in the US, all the acrylic blend yarns are made in Turkey. That was just fine with me because I am very anti-acrylic when it comes to yarn!

This shop also stocked embroidery and needlepoint kits and supplies. We noticed right away kits for the current and former Pope.

They also stocked ribbons, buttons, zippers, appliques, sewing thread, sequins, trims, crochet thread and cord, knitting needles, crochet hooks, beadwork findings, etc. This shop was the most extensive of all handiwork shops we'd seen.

Here is the proprietor with his assistant. We gave him some candy after our transaction and I told him I'd write about him in my blog. He paid me the best compliment when he said, "I appreciate you!" We saw him a few days later on our way home from Wadowice on the tram but I was too shy to run up and greet him.

I bought 6 balls of superwash gradual color changing wool yarn for about $6.50ish/ball in 2 different colorways and 3 meters of beautiful folk edelweiss trim for $1.50ish/meter. I took this picture against a Russian style shawl that I might use for a Christmas doily. I can't be earnest enough, we checked all the shops on the Yelp list that lay in our paths during our travels and the only one worth the trip was # 46 Karmelicka. I don't know what I'm going to knit from that yarn but it was my favorite from the shop! And you can't beat such helpful staff!

2011 Monday, April 18, 2007

To Moscow. otherwise

Moscow does not believe in tears, Moscow was not built overnight, Moscow was a revolutionary and twenty more. Some shake off historical associations, some make fun. Just like once .. when the dinosaurs were still running .. in the youth Russian cuisine - stuffed cakes , necessarily with black tea, to which the lemon is still dipped. And still dumplings. The friend told the adventure of youth - she went to Moscow to look for an adventure. In the cafe you order dumplings: "порцию колдунов" ("the wizards' portion" should have been "pelmeni"). The waiter was angry with the "а может еще и ведьм в подливку?" (or maybe a witch sauce?).

Best of the year 2011. Nobel Prize for Literature, T. Transtomer

Alfred Nobel.

Every year, at the end of October, the wake of science and literature in the world - the prestigious Nobel Prize winners are announced. The man who created the explosive wanted his name not to be related to war after his death.

So, bonuses.

It is believed that Alfred Nobel, the famous prize winner, was inspired by his necrologist Le marchand de la mort est mort ("Death Merchant Died") published in the French press, saying "yesterday, Dr. Alfred Nobel, who was enriched by the invention of killing people faster, died. than has been done so far ”.
1895 November 30, Alfred Nobel signed a will in the Swedish and Norwegian clubs for the majority of the Nobel Prize. The award must be paid to famous scientists and developers in the fields of chemistry, physics, medicine and physiology and literature.
Being a prize winner is a great prestige. This means that a person belongs to the world science or culture elite.

So it is not surprising that Nobel, in his testament, wrote that one prize should be awarded to "The one who will create the best piece of idealistic direction". The words "idealistic direction" show the Nobel lyrics and romance itself.

Drotinholm - Royal Palace of Sweden

All Nobel Prize-related affairs under the "Nobel Foundation Statute" are managed by three institutions: the Nobel Foundation, the Nobel Committee and the Swedish Academy. The Nobel Foundation, led by the Director and the Board, takes care of the expansion of the fund and finances all the Nobel Prize Prize organizing activities and events; The Nobel Committee, made up of five persons and led by the Secretary of the Swedish Academy, is responsible for the selection of candidates, who sends out invitations to tender, collects proposals and expresses its views on the awarding of prizes. The Swedish Academy, which is composed of eighteen honorable Swedish cultural figures and writers, who are brought to life.

The Nobel Prize for Literature, like all other Nobel prizes, is awarded annually since 1901. However, there were exceptions: literary prizes were not awarded in 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940-1943, as the old saying "biting the arms of muses silent."

The Nobel Foundation Statute states that the following persons have the right to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize for Literature:

1. Members of the Swedish Academy as well as the French and Spanish Academies

2. Members of other academic literature sections, as well as members of literary societies and unions, analogous academies, members of the literary history and language professors, selected by the Nobel Committee.

3. Nobel Prize winners.

4. Leaders of writer organizations representing their country's literary activities

Candidates must be invited in writing to invite persons with an invitation from the Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee. If the writer himself / herself proposes a candidate, his / her candidacy will not be considered, even if there are others with that right. In this way, the writer is "punished" for immorality.

Winners of the Literary Prize This

year's Nobel Prize winner did not offer. There wasn't even a favorite at betting points. First of all maybe because Swedish?

Tom Transtrom

Thomas Gusta Transtromer was born in 1931, on April 15 in Stockholm. Parents - mother (teacher) and father (journalist) divorced, so the poet was raised by his mother. He spent most of his childhood on the island of Runmarö in the archipelago of Stockholm. This nostalgic period is reflected not only in the memoirs but also in the poem “Östersjöar” (in the collection “Baltics”, 1975)

He started writing in high school, graduated from Stockholm University, a graduate as a psychologist.Already at the university he published the first set of poetry "17 poems (in 1954).

Runmar Island

For several years working as a psychologist for young offenders at a socialization center, T. Trasnstriomer devoted himself to literary creation and became "one of the most influential Scandinavian poets for several decades". The poet has published 15 poetry teams, his works translated into 60 languages.
After a stroke in 2000, the poet can no longer speak, but continues the poetic creation. In 2004, one of the most significant poetry selections " Den stora gåtan" ("Great Enigma") was released .

Zita Mažeikaitė responds to the poet " The poetic ascetic style of this poet, graphically visual images, and mysterious content distinguishes him from sentimental, often exhibitionist modern Swedish poetry. The poetry of T. Transtromer is international and very Swedish at the same time. The poetic poetry of the poet allows us to feel the unexpected and mysterious life, many of the later Swedish poets admit that they have discovered his poetry as a starting point, a place to land, a solid land.

Stockholm

Reading ... 

Storm

The passenger stops suddenly in front of the old giant oak,
as if he had seen a fossil deer with a powerful horn

a crown that reaches darkness

autumn sea fortifications.

Northern storm. It is time for the raspberries

ripen biscuits. Tamsy waking up hears

like a crown over a tree, heaven bay one to another

bilsnoja constellations.

Blue House

Remnants of Visby Cathedral (XII century)

Night with the sun shining. Standing in a forest dungeon, I look at my house with a pretty dull die nom. As if I were dead and would look at the house with another eye. He's been standing for over eight summers. Its wooden walls were impregnated four times with joy and three times with grief. When one of the population dies, the house changes color. The deceased himself repainted without any brush from the inside.

Beyond home - latitude. Earlier there was a garden, now he's got it. Stagnant weed rushes, weed pagodas, green characters, weed-upaniques, Viking flotilla-weeds, dragon-heads, spears - weed empire!

The shadow of the boomerang thrown away occasionally spills over the garden. This is related to where the Chions lived before my time. He was still a child. He continues to impart impulses, thoughts, and his own commandments: "build ... go ..." \ t

That house is like a child's drawing. Childhood has survived because somebody prematurely refuses to be a child for their purpose. Open the door, sign inside! Here you find anxiety under the roof, and the walls will calm you. Above the bed hangs a lover's picture depicting a ship with seventeen sails, wrecked waves, a wind that is not even stuck in gold-plated frames.

When you come here, you always feel early, as if you were at a crossroad, to your fateful choice.Thanks for the life here! But the alternatives will nevertheless last longer. Sketches desire to become paintings.

Madrigal

Stockholm in winter

I inherited a dark forest that I rarely do. But the day will come - living and dead will change places. Then the forest will come. We have not lost hope yet. The most serious crimes have not been resolved, although many policemen work. In our lives there is unexplained great love. I inherited a dark forest, but today I go to another, into a light forest. Everything that is alive, chanting, greening, creeping and creeping here!Spring, and the weather here is fragrant. I passed the oblivion exam but felt as empty as those on the laundry rope.

xoxo