On the last morning, having gathered a few dozen apples in the orchard for breakfast, she set off in the direction of the manor. On her way back she met the pastor, and Liene, with a broad smile, held out a rosy, large apple to him. The pastor smiled back and grasped the apple. Pausing a moment, the pastor asked whether Liene was ready to go home? "Yes," replied Liene, "I think I have recovered the faith that I am capable of believing."
Gundega, asked about the reasons why people choose to keep pets, was as honest and blunt as in the book: "Some want to care for someone, while others want to feel superior and to dominate someone, if they have such a need and cannot achieve it in real life."
If you have one horse, then you have one horse, which, it is true, grows old with time and becomes unusable for work. A completely different story is with money. If you have one hundred lats, then with those one hundred lats you can purchase a certain number of goods or services. A year from now you will also have one hundred lats, but the number of goods you can purchase with them will have changed.
Wearied by the saccharine speeches of politicians and occasionally of officials, I was unable for nearly a year to obtain a meaningful explanation about the smelly air in the port area. This week fate was favourably disposed and generously presented the opportunity to speak in person with the Environmental Service's "busy lady". There is indeed such a one there. :)
What cannot be done during the day can be done at night, thought the Penguin. Comfortably settled in the computer chair, he began pushing lines of code across the wide computer screen. Here adding something, there deleting something. Until at one point, awkwardly leaning back against the chair's backrest, the chair's armrest broke with a loud crack. The chair's backrest became limp and unusable.
The good news is that the funds will become more stable; the bad news is that less will be invested in risk/innovation transactions, which could potentially yield greater profit. In other words - the rich will get richer, the poor - poorer.
But all of that is fine, because there is a scapegoat - "quick loans" with interest rates from 150% to 1552% per year! Horrors! There are also bank deposits, with annual rates of 0.9% per year :)
We are born into a labyrinth. How does that theory sound to you? When a person is born, they find themselves in a labyrinth through which they will have to travel during their lifetime. Moreover, the labyrinth's walls, which confine sometimes narrower, sometimes wider passages, are changeable depending on the years, experience, situation, and so on.
At the same time, on the opposite side of the table sat a man who visually resembled Čaks in his youth - in a dark floral shirt, brown suit, and a head shaved to zero. Quietly, as if hiding his intention, he also drew an iPhone from his suit pocket - only a white one. For about a minute he read something attentively, from time to time sliding the content with his thumb. Having finished reading, with an equally expressionless face he slid it back into the side pocket of his suit and turned his attention to what was happening at the table.
Ābrams has a good memory and excels at finance, but Grietiņa does not. Is Grietiņa worse for that? Not at all! She is simply nothing, a zero, a consumer.
