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No, I am not the only one to see

I just received this mail from my friend Meli. As it happens she is just 25 years old, but despite her young age, she sees with dispassionate clear eyes the factual state of the Western world today. I...

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Five times ONE

Just got back home in Stockholm after having been away for a month in Romania and then Rome, Italy. I hope I will have the energy and inspiration to be able to write about the incredible things I´ve...

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Indeed, it is my duty to speak up

This is a highly important dialogue about the fact that the Nobel Prise committee has decided to assign the Peace Prise to European Union. Richard: Well, you surely got the right to get upset with...

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A mind-blowing synchronicity

I have a cousin, and unlike two other cousins from my mother´s side, we never had any real contact. Her daughter, G. found me on Facebook some time ago, and apart from changing some kind of empty...

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Citeva rinduri pentru Adina

Toata drama de zi cu zi, cu toate frictiunile si conflictele ei aferente, este indubitabil, reala. Este “reala” pentru ca suntem cu totu´prinsi in ea. Suntem personajele si victimele povestii noastre...

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We are different, but nonetheless worthy of love…

Let us learn to appreciate our differences. Let us learn from each other, instead of forcing the other resemble us. Enjoy the difference between the other and you. Who are you to want to change the...

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The dead cannot resurrect

We call ourselves modern, yet our outlook on life is terribly outdated and obtuse. The only conviction I hold is that our beliefs and viewpoints must be under constant questioning, and regularly and...

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Who cares to listen…?

This is a fragment from an earlier post: Once, travelling by train in Romania, I met a shepherd. A down to earth but very astute man. He told me that he once was in the mountains with his sheep and...

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Christmas carols and an encounter with “Fred Flintstone”

Fred Flintstone (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Earlier tonight I went to a concert of Christmas carols at the Romanian Athenaeum. I was moved. The conductor and the orchestra managed to render these...

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A surreal hoax…

I just had my mother on the phone, she was kind of sad. She had just returned from the burial of one of her lady friends` husband, who had died from a sudden heart attack, just 56 years old. The poor...

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A death-worshipping society

Antonio: “It is not that our institutions and centers of power are religious in nature that is problematic. It is that they belong to a variety of religion that is death-worshiping and whose underlying...

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Listening to how the grass grows…

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