Apr 15, 2020
A FANTASTIC DAY IN SOCIAL ISOLATION IN MIAMI …
A FANTASTIC DAY IN SOCIAL ISOLATION ? NO ANXIETY NO FEAR BUT SHEER JOY OF FRIENDS FROM NEAR AND FAR. 30 APRIL 2020 IN MIAMI WHICH IS UNDER LOCKDOWN The…
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Apr 15, 2020
THE AFTERNOON RAIN IN THE TROPICS
Miami is the only part of the Continental USA that can be called Tropical. and the rain here is truly a show of strength and power and fury and then…
Apr 15, 2020
MASKS: THE FEAR OF THE OTHER AND OTHER THOUGHTS OF LIMINALITY
There is no visible symbol in the west that has been associated with another entire hemisphere such as the MASK. People stared at Japanese tourists politely had their masks on…
Apr 15, 2020
SIXTY DAYS WITHOUT A FLIGHT: UNUSUAL BUT UNDERSTANDABLE
Sixty days ago, I arrived in Miami on a flight, and took Share Ride Uber to my sisters house and I have not been back to the airport since. I…
Apr 15, 2020
MALAYA MONGOLIA AND THE MASK. THE STORY OF DR WU LIEN TEH OF PENANG,
MALAYSIA, MONGOLIA AND THE MASK HISTORY OF THE FACE MASK Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are. Its title is an Armenian proverb;…
Apr 15, 2020
GOOD BYE COMMENDATORE … HOPE MURAKAMI WINS THE NOBEL PRIZE THIS YEAR ?
A lovely spring day in Miami. The leaves are growing in front of your eyes. Tall trees shadier by the day. On such a day I finished reading Murakami, Haruki's…
Apr 15, 2020
SAUDADE POR QATAR AIRWAYS
It was a nice day in August 2012, when I left the reservation of the UmonHon Indians in the USA and flew from Houston to Doha, connecting to Jakarta. It…
Apr 15, 2020
USA A RICH COUNTRY NOW NEEDS ISRAEL FOR ITS TECHNOLOGY AND CUBA FOR ITS HUMAN SOLIDARITY
I have chosen to love three different countries other than my own: USA , Israel and Cuba. This is the story about the three of them. While hard hit countries…
Mar 15, 2020
Le petit poète de Côte Sauvage
Many years ago, I encountered a little poet at Cote Sauvage in the Bretagne peninsula that houses the vacation spot of Quiberon. I have been lucky in that over the…
Mar 15, 2020
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER…. THE ORIGINS OF RACISM IN MODERN TIMES?
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER…. THE ORIGINS OF RACISM IN MODERN TIMES? I was sitting on the stretch of grass behind my sister’s house in Miami. I…
Mar 15, 2020
PERSONS OF COLOUR OR PERSONS PORTRAYING HUMANITY. NOT THE SAME, ARE THEY ?
Person of Colour I do not understand Who is a person of Colour? A term very popular in the USA Arabs are considered White Persians are considered White Majority of…
Mar 15, 2020
7 19 AM 20.3.2020 IRAN. SPRING EQUINOX AND IT IS 1149 PM IN MIAMI
Today is NOWRUZ, the first day of the Iranian New Year. A terrible time, a terrible year past for the people of Iran so better to hope and dream of…