Kinship is a blood relationship, friendship is a love relationship. The proverb of the Luyia people, the Bantu ethnic group that lives predominantly in Kenya but also in parts of Uganda and Tanzania....
London, 2004 The photo in London was taken on a film camera (affectionately known as a “soapbox”) in April 2004; it was the day when I walked from Fitzroy Street through High Holborn and v...
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recen...
To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing, the wedding day is, ironically, both the happiest and most terrifying day of her life. On the positive side, there is the we...
You don’t have to see the whole staircase – just take the first step. Martin Luther King, an American activist and civil rights leader. Read an amusing story that took place in Moscow in ...
I‘m not sure if we, as Muscovites, actually realise how many churches there are in our city centre. Fair enough, there were even more, and we’ve long heard complaints that many of them had...
You may be able to convince me that I am wrong, but you can’t tell me that I am wrong without convincing me. Fidel Castro to Nikita Khruschev during the Caribbean crisis...
The X Certificate, once used by the British Board of Film Classification, was first awarded on the 9th of January 1951, 60 years ago. As the tag suggested, it was used to mark “adult-only”...
3rd of January is Marcus Tullius Cicero 2117’s birthday anniversary, and one of his aphorisms is partly quoted in the post’s title: There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of k...
2nd of January was the feast day of St Macarius who is the patron saint of confectioners. I found the explanation on Nicholas V’s blog, so I quote: The reason St Macarius is the patron saint of ...