Ordinary Insanity

                                         

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By Eric Le Roy

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I can’t decide whether the human mind is an ingeniously crafted, highly resilient aircraft, purposeful in its mission, and headed somewhere as it navigates the turbulence of the skies – or is it (the human mind) nothing but turbulence itself – often of the open air?

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Insanity is a universal and timeless issue. No culture has ever been Read the rest

The Uninvited Owner Comes

By Eric Le Roy

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Here in Varna, Bulgaria, the city planners seem to have lost their minds…unless they have something up their sleeves that I don’t know about. Very possible, that. Fun fact: Bulgaria is losing population faster than any other country in Europe, and a 23% drop in population is predicted by 2050.

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It’s for the usual reasons: declining birth rates that cannot keep up with … Read the rest

The Odyssey Of Lusik: A Semi-Allegory

By Eric Le Roy

For our 15th Wedding Anniversary, I decided to honor my wife Liubov’s request for us to buy a beautiful white Maine Coon cat, the very same one you see in the photo above (first of many pictures). Since we already had two cats and two dogs, and we live in an apartment (in Varna, Bulgaria, near the sea) that is plenty spacious for us (though not Read the rest

Among School Children

Content 18 + (published as is, blog owner may have different opinion from the author; author expresses his philosophical opinion on the subject and has no intention on insulting anyone) As I was sitting around one early morning slurping down my second transfusion of coffee and draped by the still unfurled curtains of my ‘brown study’ — the birdsong of the Bulgarian village chattering away beyond my balcony — I … Read the rest