Happy Easter! Christ is risen!

I am taking a short moment tonight to wish you all Happy Easter and a blessed year - blessed by the Holy Light of the One Who defied Death tonight. In the morning say a little prayer of joy…
God, make me myrtle and burn me on your altars!
Drink a sip of [...]

They call them “the sleeping beauties” or “the sleeping princesses.”
I have no clue why or who started this metaphor, but if you look at them, you have to agree: they have a “je ne sais quoi”, a royal beauty with their slim tall towers and their delicate bodies.
It’s almost a wonder that they’ve resisted time [...]

In the rush of the modern lifestyles how many of us stop to recall the glory of the past? Do we all live by the motto “what’s gone is gone and what’s done is done” or do we somehow manage to learn from the past, to understand its values and to understand that there would [...]

A man whose name is a legend in Romania, Doru Davidovici is not however a popular figure internationally. Supersonic fighters and pilots probably know his name, and UFO enthusiasts are familiar with at least part of his biography. Men like Doru Davidovici surely deserve more than a brief mention on a Wikipedia page.
I cannot look [...]

In times of drought, when the sun burns the fields and hope for rich harvests is lost, a young girl walks the dusty street of the village. She’s wearing willow leaves around her waist, she walks and dances with a graceful pace, yet sometimes her movements are daring, erotic almost as her arms reach to [...]

The Danube Delta used to be my favorite summer destination. I used to spend there 2 to 3 weeks each year, sometimes traveling with the recons from Tulcea, sometimes with my friends and family. Whenever there was an opportunity to travel to what I used to call “Earthly paradise,” I took it.

The Danube Delta is [...]