Wasn't too familiar with Otava Yo before the concert, but really enjoyed listening to such tunes as Cossack's Lezginka; Once Upon a Time on a High Hill; and Christmas Carol live.
Nice shot of the setlist from the mixing desk below:
Here, I'm going to quickly summarise D.H. Lawrence's concept of male-female polarity which is a central feature of The Study of Thomas Hardy (1915) and which permeates two of his great novels, The Rainbow (1915) and Women In Love (1920).
In The Forked Flame: A Study of D.H. Lawrence, Daleski (1965: 30-31), describes D.H. Lawrence’s male-female polarity theme/theory in terms of male consciousness inclining individuals to value mental clarity and to seek concrete ideas and social relationships, while female consciousness may predispose individuals to value inner feelings, instincts and intuitions and to engage in a fuller emotional life. Hence, this vision contrasts a male quality of rationally reaching out to an external social world with a female quality of inwardly engaging in emotional fulfilment. Of course, D.H. Lawrence’s distinction between male and female forces of consciousness is arbitrary, as some men may be more characterised by female features and some women more by male features, especially in Western woke societies where the sexes are often conditioned into rejecting traditional male and female roles. Moreover, Lawrence’s resolution process is for an individual to harmoniously balance opposing male and female forces together both inside his/her individual psyche and in his/her relationships with members of the opposite sex in the social world.
Great piece of handiwork by an old woman in Warsaw, creating a small garden with hanging plant pots on a featureless, communal piece of land.
Really like the look of this alcove at a pierogi place on Nowy Świat in Warsaw:
It's now getting a bit too nippy to eat pierogi in such an alcove, but a gas fire may be a solution for the rest of autumn, before the bite of winter begins.
Just think that the alcove looks like a cosy place to eat pierogi.
A few more shots from the central metro station in Warsaw recently, with some kind of born-again Christian group feeding people:
The man below gave a speech about how he had managed to defeat an alcohol problem with the born-again Christian group:
Back in the mid-1980s, the born-again Christian movement was quite big in my hometown of Bury, Lancashire (north-west England), and I knew quite a few people involved with it, but nowadays they seem to be believers-without-belonging, agnostics, or worst of all, woke ideologues.
Nice shot of an artist doing painting work outside the central underground station in Warsaw.
A few shots from the Polish patriot march from yesterday which was very well-organised and generally good-natured:
Some Polish ladies were wearing red-and-white flowers in their hair:
Was great to see the flag of St. Michael flying high:
As was a big Hungarian flag:
And of course, the flares added to the atmosphere:
Full credit to the organisers of the march for preventing dangerous bottleneck situations from taking place. Below, the organiser staff have formed a human wall to prevent marchers from one direction coming into contact with other marchers from the opposite direction leaving via an exit near the National Football Stadium:
And finally, behind the National Football Stadium, a stage was set up where male and female patriot speakers gave speeches about the dangers of woke ideology entering Poland from the West:
Where the organiser staff could have a well-earned rest and feed:
