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Do you like mountains? Slovenians are known as lovers of mountains and hills.
Today I was visiting my fellow countryman Ivan Kropivnik. He is a very active 80-year-old gentleman who is present at almost all events that take place in our municipality Cerklje.
1991 brought winds of change. A window of dreams opened that we had not dared to dream before. The city breathed hope, people walked the streets with quiet dreams in their eyes.
I spent my early childhood in the very heart of Slovenska Bistrica, on a lively street that ran parallel to the stadium.
In the period between childhood carefree-ness and the first realisation that the world around us is not a given, we came together - a group of peers, friends, children with hearts bigger than our hands.
A beautiful autumn day at the homestead in Kraščih, Goričko. The heady scents of nature's ripe fruits spread through the surroundings.
Stories are born every day, just like newborn babies. Each newborn is unique, each one is his or her mother's favourite, but life leads him or her along a path mapped out by the stars of heaven.
At a time when we are faced with intolerance everywhere, which is sometimes justified when it comes to the Roma here in Dolenjska, introvert that I am, I look back to my youth and to a friendship that was forged by chance, but which lasted until the death of one of the two main protagonists.
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