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it has been an extraordinary day of euphoria: doing exactly what you want to do with your body, thoughts and mind. It began with a poem arriving from a friend…
I have visited the teeming city of Madras (now called Chennai) on many occasions and had the pleasure of living in Kingston, Jamaica for a short while. While searching for…
I have always identified myself as a Jewish Boy from Melbourne, even though I have lived in other places and other countries. Learning to speak Spanish, I am fairly proficient…
After 18 months of corporal punishment in Miami during Covid 19 isolation (gaining 4 kg in weight and a bloated belly and intellectual decay), I decided to travel despite restrictions.…
The 1942 movie CASABLANCA which was entirely filmed in studios in Los Angeles became a cult movie and to this day continues to be considered a special movie. I remember…
I have been much absorbed by the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine. The silver lining is the resilience of the people, their optimism, their undiluted patriotism and the moral strength of…
Once you are Paris for a while, you begin to understand what Ernest Hemingway meant by MOVEABLE FEAST Many of the places described in this book still stand and I…
The sun was about to set on this Friday evening in Miami. What is like for people of Kyiv, Kharkhiv and Lviv and throughout the length and breadth of Ukraine?…
When it is 10 pm in Miami, it is 6 30 am in Tehran and the city is waking up A friend of mine from there joins me in 30…
If you wish to lead an unconventional life, you have to plan to undertake unconventional path to your life including your family life, your career and your places of residence,…
Today has been an unusually calm and content day without any form of conflict . One of those delightful days The responsible people were a friend visiting from Cayman Islands,…
Went inside a supermarket Flavours of another America wafted towards the creaking doors warped with time and usage I wanted some incense, sugar which is not refined perhaps some coffee…