Author: Violeta
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Packing 30
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!” ~ Goethe I love packing. It’s the anticipation of the trip, the planning, the visualizing of what’s to come. We bought new cutting sheets, we packed the crockpot, the kingsize fuzzy burgundy blanket. We bought a…
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Give & Take
I love the brave and wise comment and wish a friend made: may we go to Cluj not for what it has to give to us but for what we have to offer, as people and places may disappoint. I completely agree. Selflessness saves us from disappointment, much like parenting, and much like marriage. We…
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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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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…