Both partners are strangers at a mutual friend's party meeting for the first time, the friend introduced the strangers to each other and either something about each other to help them start a conversation. One partner is a new employer at the company meeting. A coworker for the first time....
TheIster, so named for the Roman term for the Danube river and a stately bastion of Central European train travel, has been passing this way every day since inheriting the trans-continental baton from the starily-named, but actually pretty workaday,Orient Express. While the long-distance lin...
asubheading 小標題[translate] aWe talked of ourselves, of our prospects, of the journey, of the weather, of each other---of everything but our host and hostess. 我们谈了话我们自己,我们的远景的旅途,天气,彼此---一切,但我们的主人和女主人。[translate]...
Boring adult stuff. The past couple weeks I done a few things that aren’t really the “spark joy” kinds of activities but that I know are going to benefit me long term. Last week I got a root canal on a damaged front tooth that has been discolored for many years. They did interna...
You take your own development very seriously, your inquisitive, you read, you want to grow, you want to develop, and you see your life as a constant journey of development for yourself… and you also take other peoples development seriously. You see little increments of growth in others and...
Pa's older brother, John has, for many years, carried the responsibility for the death of his young wife during her first pregnancy. Midway through her pregnancy term, she had complained of stomach pains. John refused to get a doctor, because he was sure she had simply "Et too much." ...
So as they say, it's about the journey, not the destination. As hard as that is to remember when you're putting in your remaining week or two before you fly home or go back to work or whatever you have waiting for you after a tour. ...
I packed up and quickly left for fear I wouldn’t be able to find my way home in the dark. * * * * * Later in the week, I got the lowdown on the history of this particular kibbutz – and kibbutzim in general - from Pnina, a long-term Ze’elim resident and colorful local ...
The way I think about wellness has changed many times over the past twenty years (which is when I started to seek and pay attention to this term/approach/way of being in life). At this point in my journey wellness to me means relationship. In that wellness is relational; not transactiona...
Literally hundreds of people who would have never met had it not been for Ava’s love and appreciation for their ownsui generisfound lasting friendships in each other. Dictionaries will need to add “Ava” to the definition of this Latin term. ...