Embracing reading
George R.R. Martin, of Game of Thrones fame, besides being an endlessly frustrating old codger – and not releasing that next novel in the series -, has one of my all-time favorite quotes on reading: “I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the […]
Remember death.
Memento mori (Latin for ‘remember that you [have to] die’[2]) is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. Death. The one absolute certainty of our lives. The one shared fear of the conscious human being. For what is death but the end of our consciousness. The scattering of […]
Welcome! Why read on?
Welcome to one would-be online home. Public journal. Rant space. Life in words. I’m Andrei Stefan, at the time of writing 33 years old. White male. Husband of one. Father of one, soon to be two. Living in the beautiful land of Romania. Aspiring, struggling, developing: entrepreneur, writer, corporate middle-manager, book lover,...