He tutored a Party Member, formerly an officer of the Red Army, who was partially responsible for his fate. For many years they met monthly for dinner and conversation about being a gentleman, learning to speak French and English, understanding the ways of western culture by watching American...
1 Earlier I wrote about the sadness feltwithin my family, as well as the wider community, at the closure of our small department store that bore the family name, Shortlands. It had spanned the generations for almost one hundred years, firstly as Langstons – my great-grandfather’s surname...
there were crosses tucked in the ground, on top of each other, with rosaries dangling from them in all colors. Not being religious, this place still overwhelmed me simply by the number of crosses people have brought there one by one. Tiny ones stacked on top of each other and huge ones...
A herd of wildebeests crosses the Mara River, nearing the end of their migration from the Serengeti prairie in Tanzania to Masai Mara in Kenya, 2006. (LUO HONG) A lion duo in Masai Mara, Kenya, May 2019. (LUO HONG) Three giraffes against a setting sun in Etosha, Namibia, 2003. (LUO...
I told Matt that: “I have never put forward a post that crosses the line of civility. I never will. You do not need to be “intimately involved” in a “dispute” to know that making death threats is wrong.” I sent Matt a follow-up e-mail reporting on an abusive post put to ...
Having had a really bad break up, she believes love is dead which is not great when you’re on a deadline to write the big ending of a romance novel and your new hot editor refuses to give you an extension. When tragedy strikes and she has to return home to the town she fled 10...
I want to grieve. I want to seethe. I want a reprieve from the mandate to believe. It’d be much nicer to just go on with a simple, easy life and not have to accept any crosses. But we don’t get that. It’s not part of the Jesus package. ...
River, river, .soften your breeze as the daughters wade the fords into the twin darknesses .of temptation and patience; be still as the muezzin’s daughter crosses at the ford, be
(22 °C). Treatment at high temperature (28 °C) during the sex-determining stages of offspring from crosses of WZ females with ZZ males led to about 73% sex-reversed ZW male individuals. Surprisingly, there was an extremely male-skewed sex ratio (94%) in the offspring of WZ pseudomale...
A prayer rope is a cord of intricate knots made from yarn in the form of numerous Crosses, usually braided by monastics, which can be obtained from an Orthodox supply company. Though they resemble the Western rosary, prayer ropes should not be confused with this Latin devotional device and ...