Thursday, January 22, 2009
Days that I will never forget!
Yes, it was a wonderful event! I sat there watching the inauguration from beginning to end and was moved to tears. So much genuine warmth and enthusiasm from all sides of the political spectrum has probably improved U.S.A’s image in all kinds of unlikely places. So what if Barack Obama stumbled...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
A day to be remembered!
It’s the 20th January 2009 and today I’m going to take time out to witness, what I hope will be one of the most significant events of the century. At 4 p.m. I’m going to sit myself down on my sofa, turn off my phone, turn on my television and watch President Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony from...
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Bells and Cannons
One of my interests is Esperanto literature, either original Esperanto texts or translations from other languages. This past week I’ve been rereading an Esperanto translation of an anthology of prose poems written by the Rumanian writer born in 1889 Emil Isac. The title of the anthology is ‘Sonorilo...
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
Absent without leave.
It’s a strange kind of world the world of bloggers! We come and we go, sometimes we stop long enough to write a few lines or edit a previous contribution. If we’re not in a literary mood, we may merely check to see if there’s a visiting card or a message or whether our favourite fellow blogger has...
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
New Year blues.
You would need to have a skin like a rhinoceros not to be distressed by the reports and photos coming out of Gaza; not just from the official news channels but also from blogs, chain mails and so on. However I am also enraged by this blatant one-sided campaign; not to mention the re-appearance of...
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