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uncertain future

13 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

Human life has never been certain. That was in prehistoric times when cave bear or a smilodon could easily have a person for breakfast, in ancient times when once could easily become a salve or be born into slavery, in medieval times during religious...

The price of friendship

10 Nov 2019 2 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

Jace looked so content and comfortable with his horse. He wouldn’t sell it for a thousand dollars. Well, “a thousand” could have been a stretch. It was hard to test this hypothesis, as no one has offered Jace a thousand dollars for a horse. He did re...

Nail Biting

8 Nov 2019 1 minute read 3 comments mgaft1

Tami had a worried look on her face. Holding the baby in her hands, she scanned through the passengers of the Tokyo-Los Angeles flight. Ten months ago she told her boyfriend Franky that she was pregnant. Franky scratched his head and shook it with un...

a bunch of excuses

7 Nov 2019 1 minute read 2 comments mgaft1

Late at night, the wife, wanting a cigarette, sent her husband to get it. Unfortunately, all the stores were closed (this wasn't in the United States) and the man went to a local bar, hoping to get the cigarette there. He ordered a drink and started...

Wildfires

3 Nov 2019 1 minute read 7 comments mgaft1

I was once helping extinguish the wildfires in Taiga (it's a very dense forest in Siberia). Taiga spread many miles around and has a very scares population maybe one person per 100 square miles. Our brigade was working on the construction site buildi...

Where do cold people come from?

31 Oct 2019 1 minute read 2 comments mgaft1

Remember the story about Abraham and Isaac? How Sarai was barren and then has given a child when Abraham was a hundred years old. And then… Genesis 22.2And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land...

Chicken

27 Oct 2019 1 minute read 2 comments mgaft1

When I was a little boy not much time has passed since the end of WWII. Many cities stood in ruins, not being able to recover from ruins consequences of artillery fire and bombing completely. There were not enough places to live. My parents and I liv...

A cute baby

26 Oct 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

Whenever I see a flock of women around a baby carriage, I anticipate hearing enthusiastic exclamations. “Oh, he is soooo cute!” or “She is absolutely adorable!” Casting a quick look at the baby, and comparing the real piece of red screaming protoplas...

Gut feeling

24 Oct 2019 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

A cowboy was riding the horse in the prairie. All of a sudden his gut feeling told him "Stop!" The cowboy stopped.   "Turn to the left," the cowboy turned to the left.   "Ride to that tree," the cowboy rode to the tree.   "Get off your horse and clim...

Junk mail

23 Oct 2019 1 minute read 6 comments mgaft1

  It's pretty amazing how much junk mail we get; every day there are tons of it. Interestingly, I never met a person who'd ever used it. Take it back maybe some coupons, but still. I am thinking about how much money these people spend on all this ju...