Oct 15, 2020
OCTOBER 5 2019. TO OCTOBER 5 2020. GIVE ME THE EIGHTY DAYS OF LOVE
On the morning of October 5, 2019, I knew my. life was going to change, but did not expect so many changes. I am used to unexpected pleasures but this…
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Sep 15, 2020
MICHELE GUREVICH THE QUEEN OF LOW FI POP AND THE EASTERN EUROPEAN MELANCHOLIA
If you are listening to the music from just one country or one continent, you can be lulled into thinking you are listening to the best of the music there…
Sep 15, 2020
ALBERT MEMMI AND THE MOMENT I HEARD ABOUT THIS FRENCH INTELLECTUAL
Albert Memmi, a leading mid-20th century French intellectual and writer best known for nonfiction books and novels that unraveled his anomalous identity as an ardent anti-imperialist, an unapologetic Zionist and…
Aug 15, 2020
SONG AND DANCE FOR A SATURDAY AFTERNOON
La retirada La distancia entre los dos es cada día más grande. De tu amor y de mi amor no está quedando nada. Sin embargo, el corazón no quiere resignarse…
Aug 15, 2020
THE LOVELY BOULANGERIE OF THE SKY THAT IS PARIS
Out of nowhere,a sliver of a song drifts in Where did I hear it before The streets of Paris? Where at one time, I walked along the streets with my…
Jul 15, 2020
LA BELLE DAME SANS REGRETS. NOTHING TO LOSE WHEN YOU CAN DANCE AND HAVE THE MUSIC TO DO SO
Tropics are like hammocks for lovers, was it Anais Nin (French-Cuban) who said that when she and Arthur Miller were lovers in Paris ? There is a word in English…
Jun 15, 2020
MEMORIAS, SAUDADES Y SENTIMIENTOS… A RAINY EVENING IN MIAMI GRAY SKIES BRIGHT RED PONCIANAS WHITE PLUMERIAS AND LIGHT CARESSING RAIN
Natalie d'Arbeloff Born in Paris, raised in Europe, Paraguay, Brazil and the USA, Natalie d’Arbeloff speaks those languages and lives in London. Her father was Russian and her mother French.…
May 15, 2020
IMMIGRATION, POVERTY AND DEATH … DISAPARITY OF GLOBALIZATION PREDICTED BY FIDEL
There has been a disproportionate number of deaths from this virus, Covid-19, in France in 2020. If you look at the map, you would see a disproportionate number of infections…
May 15, 2020
THE NIGHT OF FULL MOON, TENDER AND RAW EMOTIONS AND SAUDADE
During these days of tranquility and silence, I have been able to experience solitude and emotions in their rawest form. Emotions so raw and tender that tears flow. While cities…
May 15, 2020
IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE, SET THEM FREE ..
MONOCLE is one of my favourite magazines and they send a daily sniff of their diverse interests around the world. It is truly international in that you get an anthropological…
Apr 15, 2020
DO YOU FEEL RESPONSIBLE OR WILL YOU RESPOND TO IT? FALSE FRIENDS FAUX AMIS AND OTHERS
I have lived in four countries where English in various forms is the official language: Australia, England, USA and Jamaica 3 other countries where English is spoken but not the…
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…