Mac Ford

Now 31, her hair less roaring fire, more gentle sunset, Florence Welch is a calmer woman than the whirling girl behind three number one albums who headlined Glastonbury in a silver suit. Today, removing her jewellery so as not to jangle over the tape recorder, she looks like the Lady of Shalott in blue jeans. It was during that everywhere period,... See more

Today, the church is functioning without any restrictions. There is no priest in it, there is no denominational division. Orthodox, Greek-Catholic icons and the icon of God the Father stand next to each other:

— Today it is a monument of national importance, which performs a single function: not to divide people by the confessions, to allow everyone

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"It’s so strange how we’re able to carry forward this mystery of personal identity even when our present selves are so different from our future selves and from our past selves most of all. I think a lot about this question of, what is a person? Am I the same person as my childhood self? Sure, we share the same body, but even that body is so... See more

“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself,” Bergson wrote, “and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.” Once again, the seemingly dispiriting message here is actually a liberating one. Since every real-world choice about how to... See more

The history of Bakota’s St. Michael’s Cave Monastery has started back in pre-Christian times. Age of caves reaches almost 4 thousand years. Almost all this time they served to worship natural elements. Until now, some pagan artifacts have been saved: a man’s foot etched in stone, stone idols and altars.

Sometimes you don’t even realize those things when you’re making it. You’re unconscious of the forces of nature pushing you forward. It’s quite a remarkable document of a band still very young. We’re little ponies in there trying to harness this energy. On the other hand, we are embarked on our future. That’s all you can hope for from a debut... See more

Patti Smith I was completely green. I had never worked with a producer. If John couldn’t win, he would step back and challenge me. “OK, you want to improvise ‘Birdland’? You want to wing it? Then really do it.” I was not easy to challenge because I was very self-assured. I had more self-assurance than talent, perhaps. When I achieved something, I... See more