What is important to me today? What is Saint Mary. And Saint Mary is none other than my mother. Since it’s summer, I put on Childish Gambino – Feels Like Summer. That Alexandria Teleorman is not the ugly Dragnia, it is only the “Ideo Ideis” festival. That Brad Pitt has recovered from post-Jolie trauma and plays innocent and victorious in Bullet Train. The only thing that comes out of this cocktail is a book, the Are We Right? book, Humanitas. Weekly VITAL: Saint Mary / Childish Gambino / Ideo Ideis / Bullet Train / Are We Sane?

August 15. The Holy Mother of God is my mother

A long way of worship and prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos. That is why when I think of the Virgin Mary, only my mother comes to mind. Of course, I have many icons with Saint Mary in my head, but I always see, feel the face of my Mother Mary. When she celebrated her birthday on August 15, I walked by the church in the morning, read the akathist with the names of the departed, because she told me that my day begins with a break, do not forget that this is the Assumption of the Virgin, not her birth.

In the evening, Mother Maria did a great job: she cut a surprise cake and split a watermelon, we drank light wine from Kalafat. My mother Maria did not talk much on her saint’s day. At night, when he was hungry, he would pick up a book he had started over a year ago and finish it before dawn. (The photo was found recently, but it is 50 years old)

Childish Gambino – Feels Like Summer

I’ve looped Childish Gambino dozens of times. This is the initial journey on a summer day. Not more. A journey through the red-hot world.

Alexandria Teleorman is simply Ideo Ideis

The story of Alexandria de Teleorman is connected with a fact. Dissatisfied Zymnichyans and Mavrodin decide to move to the shore of the Veda. According to Austrian plans, the houses of Alexandria were built in the 1830s. If that center of Austrian production had remained, if we had had anything old besides the cathedral, Alexandria would have been a pearl. But Alexandria de Teleorman is a lost city in the desert of the Romanian plain. This is a communist city. A festival has been born out of this void for years. It is wonderful that the City Hall of Alexandria and the Teleorman District Council have understood this spirit called Ideo Ideis.

“Thanks to Ideo Ideis, I rediscovered that the mentality of the city has changed,” emphasizes Christiana Purcarea, a drawing teacher. “The festival is like a holiday because the youth and joy you feel creates a different energy in the city. It’s like spring has blossomed,” adds Adriana Purdel, a supporter of Ideo Ideis teenagers. IDEO IDEIS events START today, August 15 https://www.ideoideis.ro/festivalul

Brad Pitt in the movie “Bullet Train”.

I admit, I didn’t understand anything in the movie for about half an hour. It was like a silly, redundant cartoon. Then Brad Pitt, in his quiet, even goofy way, brought me up to the movie by mentioning Once Upon a Time and explained to me what the movie was about.

Yes, Brad Trump hardened my psyche. Look better, Brad told me. And I looked. In manga style, the world’s best assassins get on a train and start fighting, shooting each other. Brad escapes, innocent Brad wins. But it’s not blind knocking that counts, Brad kept telling me. Humor is important, absurd situations created by derailed stories of killers. They all crossed paths once in their lives, each sees the other dead. This is a piece of manga. And this gives the film a good reputation. You don’t know where death comes from. A killer lump that makes you laugh and laugh.

The book Are we sane?

Mental health in Romania is described by Rada Teodorescu, Catalina Dumitrescu, Daniel David, Ioana Skorush, Yevhen Hrescu and Vlad Stroescu. On the mental state.

Did you know that they have increased rates of suicide and anxiety-depressive disorders. Reasons? In Romania, psychiatric services are invisible, and people consult a psychologist or psychiatrist only as a last resort or for money. The poor do not need treatment, and most do not have the opportunity to realize their plight. Loneliness prevailed here, bad, great loneliness of COVID, to the point of suicide.

Mental health can also be measured in terms of cognitive rigidity. We go crazy not being open enough to new things. The laziness of the brain, the automatism of social networks and tiny communities leads to a tendency to focus on prejudices, and from there you allow yourself to be manipulated into becoming an easy target. Did these things also come to us from communism, the transmission of the community from the parents-grandfathers?

It’s crazy! Run away! – When we see a problem, we shout. Are we the aggressors? We are victims – it is difficult to find a middle ground. Or coping is not a matter of mental normality. We have psychopathic, megalomaniacal leaders who are afraid or ashamed to admit that you suffer from a mental illness. A fear-based Romania is described.

Our health care system? reductionist and old-fashioned, centralist, collectivist. Where is the personality? There is no anxiety, depression, anger, or aggression in front of such an institutional jukebox.

The future looks just as bleak. Children are lost in such conditions. The abuse of childhood diagnosis, the new fashion of parenting, the illusions of happiness sold by literature, the illusion of a universal model and the constant distance from critical and practical thinking.