Jan 15, 2023
WHERE ARE YOU FROM ORIGINALLY? WHAT IS YOUR NATIONALITY ?
This is a question I have heard all my life. The divergence of my body (asian) and mind (post renaissance Europe) and soul (indigenous) confuses many who are used to…
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Jan 15, 2023
A VISIT TO ONE OF THE MANY SYNAGOGUES IN THE JEWISH BARRIO/GHETTO/MELLA/QUARTIER OF HOUMT SOUK, TUNISIA
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Dec 15, 2022
YALDA THE LONGEST NIGHT . LET LIGHT TRIUMPH OVER DARKNESS, IN IRAN AND IN AFGHANISTAN ..INDONESIA ..THE LIST IS LONG
Tonight is 21 december .. it is the night of Yalda .. It is the longest night, full of darkness and this morning when young women went to their universities…
Dec 15, 2022
AN ANTHROPOLOGIST MOURNS PELE: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM GRIEF, AS INDIANS WOULD TEACH US
The watch on the wrist makes a ping noise, BBC notification: The football great PELE has died, aged 82 and the Israelite Hospital Albert Einstein in Sao Paolo, Brasil. Most…
Dec 15, 2022
LIVING THE FRENCH PARADOX, AN EXPLANATION
In 1991, Serge Renaud, a scientist from the University of Bordeaux, coined the term the FRENCH PARADOX, after noting the relatively lower rate of cardiovascular diseases among the French compared…
Dec 15, 2022
HALCYON. MEMORABLE TIMES BUT THIS MORNING THINKING OF MAQROLL OF COLOMBIAN WRITER ALVARO MUTIS
Alvaro Mutis was a Colombian writer of prose and poetry and a good friend of Gabo, a contemporary from Bogota, who also lived in Mexico as an exile during the…
Dec 15, 2022
TRAVEL GUIDES/COMPANION NEEDED FOR THE FOLLOWING CITIES .. 2023
Anytime I see a List of places to visit in 2023 or something similar, I know those are the places to avoid. Yahoo Lists are hopeless written by people who…
Dec 15, 2022
IF WE APPRECIATE AND BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT WE HAVE, OUR HAPPINESS WILL MAKE OTHERS HAPPY
My UmonHon Indian teacher, Pierre said to me, appropriately after I had hurried to the Clinic of the tribe, without much attention to the blue skies, and an eagle following…
Dec 15, 2022
WHO BROUGHT FUFU TO BARACOA ? THE FRENCH FROM HAITI IN MY OPINION
WHAT IS FUFU ? FUFU is a food of African origin, which arrived with the slaves to the Caribbean region from West Africa. The slaves were forcibly brought over to…
Dec 15, 2022
WHEN YOU DO NOT HAVE A PROJECT IN LIFE, YOU AGE PREMATURELY AND DIE. .. VOCE E LINDA CAETANO VELOSO
I have always been fond of reading, the habit of looking through second hand bookstores and bouquinistes have followed me in my travels ..Powell's of Portland.. River Seine.. Tokyo.. Carlton…
Dec 15, 2022
HELP! NEED A PSYCHIATRIST TO CURE ME OF DROMOMANIA
I am absolutely in love with my language, once i realized its intricacies, nuances as well as its analytical nature and the abundance of words. There is word for it,…
Dec 15, 2022
GOOD BYE 2022 A YEAR OF GRATITUDE LET US FORGET GENTLY THOSE WHO CANNOT LOVE US
SONATA WITH SOME PINE TREES BY PABLO NERUDA PABLO NERUDA: Sonata with Some Pine Trees In the half-sun of long days let us draw our tired bones together let us…