On the small wooden table under the grape vine we sat till the evening in quiet and enlightened by inspiration conversations about God, the world, the vanity of life and the mystery of death. The long and stormy past of father Sisoy had brought him a lot of experience in life and the church books and the Bible, over which he spent his solitary hours had enlight¬ened his soul with holy wis¬dom. "Under the Monastery Grape Vine" Elin Pelin