Krutaja Babulka

Month: July 2012

  • Interview with Traveler Gleb about Egipt

    1. Gleb, how old were you when you first traveled to Egypt with Mom?                                 Ramses

    2. 5 or 7.

    1. And now how old are you?

    2. 15.

    1. Did you like Egypt then?

    2. Sure.

    1. Which Ramses did you like best?

    2. Grandma, do you think that I remember?

    1. Oh, I forgot that it was your pre-school age. Very far-away children’s time.

    Watch our photo expose: “The Valley of Kings”

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    Beautiful  Egyptian verses come to our minds while watching the pictures:

    “Come, my Soul, swim to me!

    The water is deep in my love

    Which carries me to you.

    We are in the midst of the stream,

    I clasp the flowers to my breast

    Which is naked and drips with water.

    But the moon makes them bloom like the lotus.

    I give you my flowers

    because they are beautiful,

    And you are holding my hand

    In the middle of water.”

    After J.M. Kellner,

    Under the protection of Hathor.

  • The Calgary Stampede’s Centennial Year (2012)

    CalgaryStampede2012Ian Tyson, an iconic western singer, is a 100th Calgary Stampede parade Marshal.

    Listen to the Ian and Sylvia’s performing on CBC  TV in 1986:“Four Strong Winds”

    The Stampede Parade is much more than 350.000 people converge on the streets of down town Calgary. One of the rituals during stampede is to inculcate equality and make everyone think they’re the same as everyone else from the mayor to the average Joe. So we dress up as cowboys, which is to hide social class.

    We are on the streets of Calgary full of crowds of people.

    “Janko,” I am asking,”What is the meaning of Stampede for you?”

    “For me is the Art show at Stampede”, replied Janko.”As I read in the American Journal of Canadian Studies” on Guy Weadick, the American performer and promoter who founded the Calgary Stampede 100 years ago in September 1912, it was recollected also the name of Ernie Richardson, the second manager of the Calgary Exhibition. Altogether the Calgary Stampede is tied to the fact that western artists were already creating an appetite among the general public for images of the west.”

    “Gleb, what is the meaning of Stampede for you?” I asked my grandson who happened to be here at the Stampede time.

    “Grandma, better not to mention Stampede, you remember how I spent 400 dollars just for the rides?’, he answered.

    “Oh, well”, sighed I, nodding in reply.

    As for me, Stampede means Chinook arch in the skies.

    Look at the photo show: “Stampede 100th Anniversary Calgary Sky”:

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