my beautiful geneva

oooops... i guess it's been a while.
it's just so very busy here i hardly ever find time to flip over the calendar pages.
and lots of things have happened to fit them into one post. so i basically just wanted to say hi and that i am still alive and will be back to posting as soon as i have time. i really really relly hope it happens sooner than later.
di:)

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again
Love can not fill the sickened lung with breath
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.



It’s so true. Love is so much not all. And yet…It is everything life is worth living for. Sorry, i can't remember the author's
name.

Love.
And now I will show you the most excellent way.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
--Corinthians 13

I hope that when you see it you recognize it and never let it go. I hope that you have dreams and that when they are about to come true you do not run away from them and that you are prepared and have the courage to be happy. After all, it is all that matters…
Merry Christmas, friends!
Love, Diana.

here is a random collection of pictures to celebrate Kazakhstani Independence.Some are from Almaty, some are from Petro and some are from our trip to the skating-ring yesterday ( these were contributed by Saule). Just for the record---there were sooo many people there that Saule and I had to watch Alexei skate and feel jealous. Well, may be some pirozhkis helped us survive the disappointment:)) We had fun anyway, that also is just for the record!!!

Just one little comment for today: be careful what you’re asking for-- It might happen! And it would really hurt if you are not prepared. Believe me…

Some virgin snow pictures outside Petro.