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When going out for a run today, I was lucky to see a huge flock of cranes. If you look carefully, you can see how slightly differently each of them flies. Be careful that there are loud sounds of passing by cars intervening the record from time to time. This is not the first time I see cranes here: last time I saw them was right before my talk on Russian activism in Aachen on the 19th of October. One can count how many of these beautiful large birds fly here: I roughly estimate at least several hundreds. In fact, some time after I saw another two wedges of them. The weather was beautiful today. I walked to Belgium through forests and hills. I really miss the French language. I still speak it much better than German, I even had some small verses in French (and only a piece of prose in German). I was still thinking about my own poem in English, which I finished yesterday. It was really hard to write, but now it is one of my best (including Russian ones). Many people asked how my day went. I was awake at night, maybe 3 a.m. It happened often this week, and I was thinking about my poem then. After 7 I woke up and had a breakfast, then had another breakfast with friends, then a 3-hour walk, a small lunch, then a sleep for 2 hours, a run for 50 minutes, a supper, then singing for 3 hours (starting with exercises from my teacher Nina). Maybe my mind will relax before the next hard-working week. I wouldn’t call it a typical day, but it was a good one. Probably, I also want to read something (especially English poetry; I was surprised this week that I got no unknown words when reading Shakespeare). It was hard to run today, because it was very beautiful and I stopped to take photos and videos several times. Golden autumn will soon finally come to this magic place. Last Sunday we went to Belgium in two cars. We found few mushrooms, but it was still surprising to find them in November (in my places in Russia there was already snow). I wonder that I see many plants and trees in blossom now. Not sure that it is right or normal. But it is beautiful. Yesterday I saw several herons (I saw one before just on my way to work). I regularly see hares very close to my work building (or maybe they are rabbits); I saw a dead ferret (suspiciously close to a shed with many white feathers around). My work is surrounded by fields and trees (in fact, it is in five minutes from a natural reserve, where I often walk). My friends in Vaals live in three minutes from a forest. I can hear birds chirping in our garden every day. Today during the evening run I heard a very curious bird, but after coming closer I realised that that was a horse. The birchtree under my windows is gradually acquired by yellow. Когда вижу журавлей, вспоминаю Есенина “Отговорила роща золотая...“ В России их не помню, к сожалению.
