Archive for January, 2012
Una vida sin amor y ilusión, es una vida sin sentimiento.
It’s impossible, for one, to say what will happen next– will there be elections? Will there be more violent demonstrations? Will there be yet another referendum, some sort of modification to some existing law that will once again secure Rajoelina’s political authority? Will foreign governments intervene?
One of my classmates looked out the window on the train ride to Tianjin and said that he’d heard a rumor that half of the world’s supply of cranes were in China’s growing cities.
Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
No. I couldn’t possibly have just agreed to go on two separate dates with these Spaniards who are friends.
He described a revelatory idea that combines kibbutz labor ideology and Detroit-style urban renewal in a way that almost manages to tiptoe right around the politics.
Now that I’ve unpacked, been to the grocery store and been on a little adventure it is finally setting in – I am here….for 5 months.
