Month: February 2014
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Encouragement
Being private is comfortable and safe, but you might agree that it is also sterile. On the other hand, vulnerability is freeing and inspiring though it leaves a bitter, lonely aftertaste. We are not in need of approval, and occasionally we enjoy stirring up the air and the waters. It doesn’t take much. Conrad expressed…
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Cluj & Heritage
We are not the first American/Romanian couple to meet and fall in love, nor are we the first within our church. The third in fact, and not the last. We jokingly call it a tradition and playfully hint to the high school boys that they should go to Cluj after graduation to find a wife,…
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That Elephant
Vio talks about the sharing she did last Sunday, but doesn’t really convey the gravity of the situation. The church we go to has what they call “Body Life”, where people in the congregation volunteer to stand up and share with the rest of the people what is going on in their lives and what…
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Adventure & Dreams
“It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.” Erma Bombeck How do you put your dreams on the line? — Sharing them out-loud. And sharing I did last Sunday in front of hundreds of people. Thank you all for listening. I spent the whole next week drained and still.…
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East Meets West
The details about what is to come will have to wait. Conrad and I will start posting about the same topic from personal perspective. I met Conrad in my last year in college in Cluj, after I had spent two summers working in the Bay Area as an intern, in a research corporation. I was…
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My Beginning
I met Violeta for the first time in January 2007 when I was working as a consultant for a friend’s new coffee venture in Cluj. I had only been there for a week at that point and was still finding my bearings both with the new language and the role I was to play in…