{"id":153,"date":"2014-04-20T21:05:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T19:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2016-05-17T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T06:16:11","slug":"inky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Inky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/inky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/inky-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"inky\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/inky-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/inky-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/inky.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Inky is the color of ink: as thick and as fat as dark red.<br \/>\nRed is the color of wait: as long and as wrong as headstrong.<br \/>\nWhite is the color of light: it can make red bread.<br \/>\nBut only bread is not enough: you need wine to make black white.<br \/>\nOr maybe you\u2019d like to stay where bread is red and dark is fat?<br \/>\nThen you can leave this inky site and go to where you like.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s up to you: you\u2019re free to do what you like or log into<br \/>\nWhat seems to be an absurd rhyme, but makes you shine as bright as light.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lil<br \/>\n20\/04\/2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Photo2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Photo2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Photo2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Photo2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My name<\/strong> is Ekaterina (Katya for short) Abadjieva and I come from and live in Bulgaria. I am divorced and I have two children \u2012 a daughter and a son. I had a sick daughter who died when she was a baby. <strong>I work<\/strong> as an English-Bulgarian teacher and translator and I have been doing this for more than 30 years. I love both my jobs. Working with people is harder but character-building and perfecting. Working with languages is challenging but giving me a lot of pleasure and helping me to achieve what I lack the most \u2012 communication with people.<\/p>\n<p>I think that <strong>people<\/strong> are the dearest thing and friends are the greatest treasure that we can have. Time and efforts spent in dealing with them are time and efforts spent in the most productive way. It can be joyful and it can be painful, but it is worth it. All things exert influence over us but people\u2019s influence is the most powerful one \u2012 except God\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that the world was created and is not a result of pure chance. It is too complex to be so. It was created by someone who knew how to do it. If I want to make something, I will first think about how to do it and then I will start making it. I believe the <strong>Maker <\/strong>of the world conceived the idea in His mind and made it out of what He is. None of us can do that. We all make things out of what is already here using our capabilities that are already here.<\/p>\n<p>We are endowed with many capabilities and enormous power to do great things, but we are <strong>not absolute<\/strong> masters of our fate. We are born without having any say in the matter and we become sick without wanting it or die without being able to do anything in order to change it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/?p=237\"><strong>Death<\/strong><\/a> is our main problem, but it is not the only one. Our life is full of problems: misunderstanding, pain, disease, uncertainty, abuse, disaster and many others. We don\u2019t want them. But almost all of us would rather bear with them and live forever than die. What happens after death and does anything happen at all? If it does, how can we know it? One way to know it is if we experience it or if someone who has experienced it tells us about it. In both cases, however, we must be certain of the authenticity of the experience and know for sure that it has been real.<\/p>\n<p>And this brings about the second great problem of our life \u2012 <strong>falsehood.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If am walking through an arid area and I become thirsty, and if I meet someone who tells me that there is a well of water ten kilometers away, but this is not true, I will certainly die if I continue walking in that direction. I would live if only he is telling me the truth. How can I find this out? The surest way to find this out is to foretaste it. If this person is carrying a vessel with the water from the well and gives me to drink from it or if he tells me of places on the way where I can drink and satisfy some of my thirst, then I can be sure that he is telling me the truth. If he isn\u2019t, he won\u2019t give me anything or he will give me something that won\u2019t have the same effect. The very fact of my giving you this example and being able to distinguish between true and false proves that this can be done and speaks of <strong>hope. <\/strong>(If I am incapable of distinguishing between true and false to the extent that I perceive false as true, I will die for certain.)<\/p>\n<p>How can we distinguish rightly between <strong>true and false<\/strong>? By tasting what is offered us and observing the effects. To be honest, I think that this is what we do all our lives: We \u201ceat\u201d and \u201cdrink\u201d to fill not only our empty stomachs, but also our empty souls having to distinguish between true and false all the time and showing our preference for either of them by liking what we taste and becoming like it. For as food and drink are digested by our bodies making them such as they are, so does our choice between true and false end up by making our inner beings what they are. And the final result is that we become more or less able to distinguish between them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Inky is the color of ink: as thick and as fat as dark red. Red is the color of wait: as long and as wrong as headstrong. White is the color of light: it can make red bread. But only bread is not enough: you need wine to make black white. 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