May 15, 2022
LOVELY TIME OF THE EVENING IN MIAMI BUT MIND IS LIMINAL
How quickly memories of a recent trip fades into the banality of everyday life even if you are surrounded by beauty. Travel is movement, every day life is stationary. My…
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May 15, 2022
THE TIME FOR MAGIC MUSHROOMS 2000 year old knowledge being scientifically validated
It was astonishing for me to learn that in recent years 17.5 million americans were being diagnosed with DEPRESSION each year. and the figures are not that far behind in…
May 15, 2022
HOTEL SARATOGA IN HAVANA. THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING . SUCH A SYMBOLIC TRAGEDY OF ELEGANCE OF HAVANA
PS PLEASE DO NOT MAKE UP YOUR MIND ABOUT CUBANS LIVING IN THE ISLAND BY YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH CUBAN EXPATRIATES IN MIAMI. Cubans (I always mean the Cubans who live…
May 15, 2022
JIM HARRISON AN UNSUNG AMERICAN WRITER . MERCI BEAUCOUP MES AMIS YVES ET MP EN BRETAGNE
In France intellectuals have a special place in the society. In my early days living there I was amazed that talk shows featured intellectuals inviting people into their homes for…
May 15, 2022
SOUS LE CIEL DE PARIS. I WISH YOU WERE WITH ME
One of the advantages of living in more than one country, is that you feel present and congruous with the pulse of the country and in my case with the…
May 15, 2022
ECUNEMICAL TOLERANCE OF FORT COCHIN IN KERALA INDIA
A week ago I was in Fort Cochin, so full of experiences and feelings. Manolo, as I call the ex-driver who worked at my ex-hotel stays, sent a texts message…
May 15, 2022
MAQROLL EL GAVIERO JUDIO, YEHUDA K OF NO PERMANENT ADDRESS, THE LAST ONE SEAT 1 A FROM SINGAPORE TO JFK
When did Maqroll enter my life? When did Maqroll become me ? the always about to sink steamer Halcyon and the absent minded owner from the Levant Abdur Bashur and…
May 15, 2022
TRAVANCORE COURT HOTEL, A FINE BUSINESS HOTEL IN THE COMMERCIAL CITY OF ERNAKULUM IN KERALA
After saying Good bye to the pleasant manager of the Tower House Hotel in Fort Cochin, it was time to go to Ernakulum. Mr Rajesh Rajan, manager of the Travancore…
May 15, 2022
COCHIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 25 APRIL 2022
Mr Rajesh Rajan, the manager of the Hotel Travancore Court at Ernakulum had organized a wonderful stay for me in Cochin this time. It was time to say good bye…
May 15, 2022
THE PLEASURES OF LIVING IN THE TROPICS
One of the pleasures of being back in Miami is to enjoy this vista each morning, while sipping on a good cuban coffee.This view is from the house of Youssef,…
May 15, 2022
IF YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS TO BE HERE IN THE USA, PLEASE DO NOT COME TO THIS MOST VIOLENT AND MOST DIVIDED DEVELOPED COUNTRY ON EARTH
I, like millions of people, including those fighting Russians at war in Ukraine, am heartbroken at the wonton carnage that took place at the town of Uvalde, a short distance…
May 15, 2022
IT IS WITH THE HEART THAT ONE SEES : TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT NURSES THAT I HAVE WORKED WITH AMONG INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
The Elderly Indian Nurse shuffled her small frame into the consulting room of a health clinic of a traditional group of Indians in the middle of nowhere (as the europeans…