JACQUES BREL ARRIVED IN MY AUSTRALIAN LIFE LONG BEFORE I LEARNED MY FIRST WORDS OF FRENCH
It has been a while. My magical life in Melbourne, Australia was in full swing. I heard this song Ne me quitte pas after listening to it a hundred times…
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It has been a while. My magical life in Melbourne, Australia was in full swing. I heard this song Ne me quitte pas after listening to it a hundred times…
Delightful day at the National park among the Indigenous people. as always. Someone determined to chat, comes through the rain, clutching his dog He asks for a towel so that…
I noticed the title of the song Homage a Ton Ton Ferrer.. ton ton is a french endearment for Uncle .. I like that word. so Ferrer did not catch…
I am happy to have come to the USA for my post graduate studies in Endocrinology (excellent clinical education at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami) but even…
Even in the small provincial village of Quiberon in Brittany in France in the bookstore one could find copies of the book by the Israeli historian of the future, Yuval…
Quiberon lies at the end of a peninsula bearing its name, connected by a thin strip of land to the mainland Brittany and France. The village of Quiberon has a…
Many years ago I met the Le Petite Poete de Côte Sauvage. She was three years old at that time and in a rather neruda-esque description, she said to me…
I was in Malaga in Andalucia and my destination was Quiberon, Bretagne. I always liked Nantes as a place to change from an intra European flight to the train that…
This has been an unexpected trip and not well prepared trip at all. But every day, unexpected pleasures have come my way. On arriving at the Madrid Airport, after a…
YALDA the longest night is celebrated in IRAN where it must have originated while it was Zoroastrian centuries before the Muslim conquest. It is also celebrated in some parts of…
I am writing this for my family in Miami and also Cayman Islands as well as other travelers including my colleagues who are traveling during this holiday season. People should…
San Lazaro is a Spirit from the pantheon of Cuban Syncretic Space, he is a Healer, a good Spirit to have on your side during these isolated days of suffering.…