Aurelius awoke from his deep slumber. He threw back his mantellum, which in colder weather doubled up as his cloak, and sheepishly raised himself to life. After a few quick breathes to get the life blood flowing through him, he stretched and got up on his feet and soon found himself peering out of his […]
Read More →One of the big questions in life is ‘Why do things happen the way they happen?’ There could be many and endless answers to this question, but for what its worth, here are my thoughts. One way of looking at it could be to say that there is no God or higher beings that exist, […]
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Ben strode purposely forwards. He was a man on a mission. It was spring and that meant an ideal combination of freshness and new life was in the air. Ben diligently navigated the bumpy pavements as he moved towards his destination. In Moldova you always had to be careful where you put your foot. He […]
Read More →Ben looked nervously at his conversation partner sitting opposite. The conversation had taken a not unusual turn and he knew what was coming. Ben steeled himself. ‘So, why aren’t you married?’ This wasn’t the first time that Ben had received this question or a version thereof. He quickly calculated in his mind which of the […]
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Ben sat and waited. The bus was not running according to time as usual and so he had no choice. He was starting to get a bit apprehensive as he didn’t like being late for college, but things were out of his hands. So, he waited. As he meditated on the previous day’s football, a […]
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Aurelius breathed in deeply and girded himself for one last push. He had been on the way to the local agora and was nearly there. The caseus that he had slavishly, but lovingly made were wearing him down. Caseus weren’t so light you know, especially when they were the well matured kind. In any case, […]
Read More →Ben felt his heart pound as he moved swiftly along. The reason for the pounding was twofold. There was the obvious breathlessness caused by physical effort. He was in a hurry to not be late for his meeting. However, there was something more. The said meeting could be described as a rendezvous and thus Ben, […]
Read More →Ben sat eagerly awaiting. He was struggling to communicate in a meaningful way to his Asian companion who sat alongside him. Neither of them was very fluent in the same language, which is of course a problem in conversation, however they had been muddling along as best they could in a combination of broken English […]
Read More →Sometimes in life we are confronted with challenging circumstances. One time in Romania I was at a Bible class. The teacher was American and the person translating approached me during the break to inform me that he needed to go somewhere and asked me, being an English speaker, if I would translate after the break. […]
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‘Здравствуйте! Могу ли я заинтересовать вас в личностном тесте? Бен прогуливался только по Хай-стрит во второй половине дня и, конечно, не искал какой-либо глубокой внутренней ретроспективы. Однако солидный мужчина средних лет, стоявший перед ним, не выглядел так, будто не собирался принимать ответ «нет». «Это займет всего двадцать минут, и это абсолютно бесплатно», – настаивал мужчина. […]
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