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My Notebook of Symbols

Zack Followingz
Short Story Series. A mystical journey through symbols, thoughts, reminiscences, emotions and subconscious flows - all creating a very unique reality of our own - we call it the life. These are short stories, updated daily. But these stories could as well become an alien's guide to human emotions someday in the distant future. Let's think and meditate together.
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Episodes

Tree

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 23, 20199 minSeason 2Ep. 1

Island

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 23, 20196 minSeason 1Ep. 46

Beach

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 23, 20197 minSeason 1Ep. 45

Marsh

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 23, 20194 minSeason 1Ep. 44

Jungle

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 23, 20195 minSeason 1Ep. 43

Desert

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 11, 20194 minSeason 1Ep. 42

Salt

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 11, 20192 minSeason 1Ep. 41

Cave

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 11, 20198 minSeason 1Ep. 40

Valley

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 11, 20191 minSeason 1Ep. 39

Mountain

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 11, 20194 minSeason 1Ep. 38

Stone

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 11, 201911 minSeason 1Ep. 37

Darkness

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 11, 20195 minSeason 1Ep. 36

Night - Season 1 | Episode 35 - The Night of Chaos and Despair

— It’s better. Will be in shape. Won’t eat so much before sleep. Nothing after 6 or 7 pm max… He’s trying to keep the hours away from the pill time. The pill is toxic. It affects his mind. It makes him shiver, afraid of everything… With food the effects magnify – the only option is to drink at night – so he changes his nights. So he thinks. — Better this way. Healthy life-style… He feels down… Over a year already – the regimen, the pill, the work, the nights spent alone… Why? He takes butter and...

Apr 11, 20196 minSeason 1Ep. 35

Sunset - Season 1 | Episode 34 - Don't Stay in the Dark!

— Are they afraid? — What do they think about? — Do they think of it at all? — Do they find it beautiful? — They see the sun, those who look at sunset… — Can’t they be meeting sunrise with similar fascination? — Why is that considered romantic at all? — Why do they think of the sunset at the seaside? — Why do you protest about the sunset?.. People contradict each other and they question the sunset glory which is often portrayed as so enigmatic, romantic, beautiful… He looks at the grey city. Ten...

Apr 11, 20193 minSeason 1Ep. 34

Dusk - Season 1 | Episode 33 - By You - By You - By You

— By you, God, “Gmerto Shenita” – He heard this once said bu the Patriarch, the shortest of all prayers, the most powerful… — By you… — By you… — By you… He keeps repeating. In front of him are the two candles, one’s a bit longer than another, both are half burned… — By you… — By you… — By you… Home he is in, the home of EZ, empty now, cold now, He’s alone. He turns on the speaker his love gave him as a present… — By you… — By you… In front of the candle there are two chocolate balls, with peanu...

Apr 11, 20192 minSeason 1Ep. 33

Solstice - Season 1 | Episode 32 - We'll Turn towards the Summer!

— Sometimes I’m afraid these thoughts are too chaotic. — Don’t be! — They may not have any sense to somebody else… — There will be one! — I doubt it, myself, these notebooks, these thoughts… — Perhaps, but so, what?.. — The doubt is all about the fear of being mediocre… — Challenge mediocracy! — I wanted it to be outstanding, great, unique! — Be authentic! — I’m not sure… I’m afraid not to finish… — Don’t be! Nights are becoming the longest, he thinks with 22nd of December quite soon, in a littl...

Apr 11, 20194 minSeason 1Ep. 32

Sunrise - Season 1 | Episode 31 - Goooood Mooorniiiiing Baby - Rising!

— No, I have not seen a lot of sunrises… — The orange, then red, then bright yellow, – all big, bright… — I know. It’s making all clear, all alive again… — The fuss starts… — The change of stance, they cycle, the rhythm again… — Let’s wait… — There… You see the disco that soon becomes too bright to look at, then too hot to enjoy… It can burn if you are close. Some tiny atmosphere is between us and the sun… — Time to go to the field – the boy and his father are on the path to the crop field. — Ti...

Apr 11, 20194 minSeason 1Ep. 31

Dawn - Season 1 | Episode 30 - Keep the Balance: the Sun is Near!

He feels the imbalance. Around him. Inside him. The place he calls both home and office has proven to fail in both roles. The stance he calls happy, but sad is not a natural one at all. Weird condition of the soul… He feels imbalance. He sees the need to change. Start again? Can he? He feels the dawn. Yet dark. He shivers. He remembers best times of mornings and emotions of traveling and feelings that are unclear… He seeks the sun. Yet in the darkness the dawn only brings very subtle sign as to ...

Apr 11, 20192 minSeason 1Ep. 30

Spark - Season 1 | Episode 29 - Where will the Sparks Fall?

Swings. From the highest point to the lowest of moods. From the happiest to the saddest… From hope and power to despair and apathy… Bipolar? Depressive?.. High? Low?.. Week? Strong? — It’s so tiny… Like a particle… It may grow into the fiercest of fires… A spark… All the particles, unrelated?.. Chaos?.. Yet they are entangled… Somehow… All connected… — Look at these picture from today, – Dad says. — These ar really “dear” – Mamida smiling. — I’ll be the drag queen, – the boy says. — Zurabi, – ho...

Apr 11, 20196 minSeason 1Ep. 29

Fire - Season 1 | Episode 28 - I am the Life Says the Fire

He looked at the symbols and images before writing – that’s how his reminiscences were coming to him. But not this time. He knew it was about fire. And he remembers the bright orange drawing, the lines depicting the fire… For him the beauty of that fire was too dangerous to aspire to… It makes people disappear in the flames. It is the one to bring ashes to ashes, dust to dust… It’s fire… It’s fury… For him it’s never warm, he thinks… It’s the fire he hates now. That’s the one to make him forget ...

Apr 01, 201910 minSeason 1Ep. 28

Snow - Season 1 | Episode 27 - Can Snowflakes be Warm?

Minus 25 Celsius. Kiev. 2am. He leaved the hotel room. The street is white and grey. The street lights are there, the cars are there, the houses are there and still the universe seems empty and frozen. Nothing moves. Nothing makes sound. He tries not to slip on the icy pavement. The cold is in every bit. He feels it through his jeans and through the pair of tight heat insulators below the jeans. He felt alone, on the outskirts of the world, away from everyone. His choice to travel there. His pas...

Apr 01, 20196 minSeason 1Ep. 27

Fog - Season 1 | Episode 26 - Standing Hands-reach in the Fog

— You visit the opera and you should be surprised, that’s how it should feel when you come – elderly man is explaining to the group of youngsters gathered in a retro-hip courtyard bar-cafe… They look at him and listen silently without giving any sign of either approval or disapproval. They are beautiful. All of them. All so young. Torn jeans, but somehow still neat. They appreciate the attitude of the elderly man. They value the unexpected, unknown, misty concept of not caring about losing contr...

Apr 01, 20194 minSeason 1Ep. 26

Dew - Season 1 | Episode 25 - Me Barefoot and the Dew

His grandpa would wake up at dawn. Long before anyone else was up. He would go to the pool in the morning, he remembers… Or when they were not in town, when they were in the village, he’ll be up, already in the yard, long before the rest woke up. It’s with him that the association of dew comes to mind… His grandpa’s bare feet slowly pacing through the glass that still had the dew left from the early morning. The silence, only the grass being pressed by the foot gently. The foot became wet. There...

Apr 01, 20194 minSeason 1Ep. 25

Lightning - Season 1 | Episode 23 - The World Inside You

Since 1998 at least, if not earlier, he’s been noting down, writing, imagining, praying, crying, complaining, asking, again crying, mostly trying to express the sorrow of the times he’s left to himself. The periods of no notes, nothing written, there are months or years often. Then again he’s back to the notebooks… Some of the notes became digital when that era came; the rest still on paper. Some days he tried to digitalize his notes, then he somehow got disappointed with anything digital – he w...

Apr 01, 201920 minSeason 1Ep. 23

Rainbow - Season 1 | Episode 24 - From Color Splash to the Rainbow

Thank you for joining me in this journey towards emotional healing, finding oneself and remembering what makes us happy. The topics covered in these podcast episodes are: #Emotional Healing #Finding Yourself #Follow Your Wings #Happiness is a Choicr #Meditating Meditating #Peace of Mind #Psychological Journey #Reminiscences Reminiscences #Thinking Aloud #Thoughts Thoughts #Leap of Faith #Short Stories #Short Story Series #Blogging Everyday #Thinking Along Writing #Finding Inner Self #Therapy The...

Apr 01, 201911 minSeason 1Ep. 24

Thunder - Season 1 | Episode 22 - Naughty Gods of Thunder

You anticipate one. There, it comes after lightning, but it’s still something your ears don’t want to get used to. You can’t just listen to thunder, can you? It takes all the attention. It distracts. It calls for you to get scared, be scared, get startled, drop everything… The truth really is that… The truth is there’s nothing to be afraid of when you hear the thunder. The moment you hear it, the lightning has already struck somewhere. — Life’s playing the same rules as the lightning and thunder...

Apr 01, 20198 minSeason 1Ep. 22

Storm - Season 1 | Episode 21 - Where Storm Hits and Passes

— There, you asked for! — How cruel the gods can be, in interpreting one’s wishes, twisting them, and laughing at humans… — That’s what you asked for! — They send flood to those thirsty; they send wealth and take health; they fulfill the wildest dreams, only to discover they are not making you happy… — The storm came!.. — Let it!.. Stronger… To make the life cleaner, wiser, better… I’m afraid not to say or wish for something that can be interpreted differently… — What’s not right? — Nothing is… ...

Apr 01, 20193 minSeason 1Ep. 21

Rain - Season 1 | Episode 20 - What Do You Feel When It Rains?

It cleans, it makes it pure, it brings life, it washes away the dirt, dust, all negative… There comes rain to make us alive again… Dark skies won’t clear without rain falling down. It’s the release, it’s the joy, For him the rains brought some divine energy. Perhaps because of his earthy astrological sign – his virgo self – rain’s been just as welcomed as air… Perhaps that’s why he wished for rains so many times. For him it’s the biggest equalizer. Rains take us home. Rains make it to our sanctu...

Apr 01, 20196 minSeason 1Ep. 20

Wind - Season 1 | Episode 19 - Tale of Four Winds

Navajos had four wooden sticks – snakes – with feathers on them. The black one – black wind of the east… The blue wind – of the south… The yellow wind of the west… The white wind of the north… They sat together – black, blue, yellow and white – next to him. Breath in, breath out. There, they came, all four of them to enter him. Breath in. — I’ve blown the hair of the emperor as he stood rising above his fifty thousand soldiers, all hailing him, their weapons up in the air, their eyes up to glanc...

Apr 01, 201912 minSeason 1Ep. 19

Cloud - Season 1 | Episode 18 - The Clouds are My Thoughts

He believes in things he can touch or see… And for many years he ignored some very real world around him as illusory or immaterial… Inner is not only projecting into the world, but the inner has been affecting everything around him… He missed so much in life perhaps, ignoring that ability, that function of brain – that junction of inner and outer world – something that he was taught to be absolutely separate… In fact all of that is just the same… Once again, that new religion in his head – thoug...

Apr 01, 20197 minSeason 1Ep. 18
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