My life

I walk silently
in order not to wake up
tree buds too early.[/FONT][/COLOR]

It is midnight. You are going home down the dimly lit street. There seems to be nobody, except you. But suddenly you hear the sound of steps. Someone is following you. The steps get louder and louder, and you begin to worry. "Who is this?" - the thought crosses your mind. You begin to remember stories about what can happen to a lonely passenger late at night in the street. The more you think, the more you get scared. Now you are going so fast, that you almost run.
Stop! Stop for a minute and try to shift your thoughts in another direction. Somebody, who follows you, is not a villain. On the contrary, he is your friend, brother, your Guardian Angel! This dark and comfortless night he accompanies you so that you might safely reach your home. He is ready to help you if anything happens. Always and in any case!
And you turn and smile at him.[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]

(c)Ramute

When you NEED,
NEED,
When it is IMPORTANT,
IMPORTANT,
Somebody comes.
I, YOU, HE, SHE,
US, THEY
Always come
and are present.
HELP,
COMPANIONSHIP,
FRIENDSHIP,
LOVE -
Are always present.[/COLOR][/I][/B][/ALIGN]

(c)Ramute

Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes…
Sometimes the mistakes are simply absurd. I want to write about one such case. I and one Russian interpretor were translating the same book of American child psychiatrist about child’s conscience. I was translating the book into Lithuanian language, he – into Russian. He did it first, so I had his coppy. In the book there was an episode where little children in the kindergarten play “Doctor”. They come up to the teacher and ask about the doll’s illness. The teacher examines the doll and proposes to make a “shot”. This word can be translated as an ‘injection’ and also a ‘glass of alcohol’. So what do you think? That Russian interpretor translated that the teacher proposed to give the doll a glass of alcohol. When I showed this mistake to the author of the book, he turned red. He was an abstinent and besides had a group of adolescences, who had problems with alcohol. How the translator could have made such a mistake? Was he inatentive or didn’t look into a vocabulary?
What do you think about such mistakes?

I want to get acquainted
With what I meet on my way.
I embrace it gently with my hands
And touch with fingers.
This is the bay of my loving hands.
With my hands I am able to nourish,
To cuddle and send warmth.
With my strong hands I can stop
The ball of agression.
That what it is scotch or scary,
That what is allien, unacceptable,
That what is not important, inconsiderable –
That has to leave my bay of loving hands.
I let in my life only love, warmth, joy.