Mockingbird, Slang Meaning

pre-Christmas

Each year ends with almost the same - frantic attempts phoned to all reachable friends, acquaintances, former colleagues, doomed to failure, by definition, buying gifts, collection of travel bags, occurring on the machine, and, finally, a welcome departure from that distant nevіdomy (sometimes vіdomy) border within a reasonable time.

This year, the problem is precisely the latter that is reasonable deadlines. December 30 - working day and its duration is open to question. He has all the chances delayed until 19-22 hours according to various estimates. A legitimate question what would be like New Year celebrations in the Carpathians, if from Kiev to leave on December 30 at 20.00 or 31 at 5-6 am. Madness ...

Need something to do.
Freedom Day, a new holiday in our calendar, which is associated with mixed feelings of joy, that all this happened to us, and regret from unwarranted expectations, was somehow surprisingly calm.

Interestingly, only the day before, Nov. 21, the unexpected appearance of a guarantor in a nationwide broadcast marking the onset of anniversary of Maidan. Somehow had time to forget partially, in which day it all began ...

A 22-second in the city was strangely quiet and very ferial. Only near Alexander church, so to speak on the siding, was a lot of policemen, and returning home at about nine o'clock, she met on a lonely little group walking Grushevskogo with the state flag. Perhaps it was the echo of passing near the Mariinsky meetings sister.

Or maybe the whole sacred meaning of the holiday Freedom Day is that absent any imperative, even moral? why I'm such a fool
Today, my great-grandfather, the only men this generation in the family, who 87, celebrates his feast, he reveres him, gathers all family members. Anyway this is probably the only reason to meet together, listen to stories of the older and, without exaggeration, the wisest of men. Usually it is in high spirits after holiday. I think if he had a passionate and dreaming about something, it's live to the 90th anniversary of the Great October Revolution. Frankly do not respect the current kvazikommunisticheskih leaders, he goes (even today, in bad weather, and not being completely healthy) on the activities carried out with difficulty, to feel part of the whole ...

Sometimes I'm in good envy him, because he is able to abstract from the feeling of escaping reality, the illusory of all events and the potential futility of the future ...

Reading Bagritsky, just for the soul.