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As 2025 comes to a close, I’m not looking for dramatic conclusions. What I feel instead is something quieter and rare: completion. This year brought change at work, clarity through writing, closure through honoring my mother’s memory, and a deeper appreciation for family, growth, and humanity. I say goodbye to 2025 with gratitude and welcome 2026 with intention.
Just for fun. As we communicate, we utilize a common language to practice in a conversation every day. We read, speak, write - we communicate. But what happens when you are taken out of your everyday usual communication practice and submerge into a foreign language. Well, I have been experiencing this since I 1994, when …
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin became the first human to journey into space. The rocket carrying the Vostok 1 spacecraft, with Gagarin aboard, launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 6:07 AM local time. Over the course of 108 minutes, Vostok 1 completed an orbit around Earth, marking humanity’s first step into the …
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Mikhail Oparin 