a list in no order
--The beautiful paintings I saw in San Diego--who knew there were such treasures in the small museums in Balboa Park? And the French woman in one of the museums--I admired her scarf and she unfurled it to show me an orange Savana Dance.
--My thoughts about retirement that cannot be "published" till after I retire. Coming soon.
--All the Bronte novels I've been reading--the two by Anne Bronte, trying to read Villette--Lucy Snowe, who wants to be seen/not seen
--Country Girls Trilogy--only really liked the first one.
--Northanger Abbey as a sorbet between the Bronte books.
--my encounter with Patti Smith in the Verona train station last summer. I am embarrassed in retrospect--since I tend to ignore famous people and try to pay attention to people who get little notice, much less adulation.
--roasting grapes!
--a few emotional encounters with former students (MB, D, DS, DR)
--my connection with a young European rabbi who is married to a descendant of the great-uncle who died before I was born--a link to finding out something more--the postcard still in Vienna
--how we coped with the heat wave in Paris--frozen bottles of water in front of a fan in the apartment, many outings to the Petit Palais (free!) to listen to concerts on antique pianos (also free!).
--Florence! Rome (too short--we missed out flight b/c of storms...and lost a lot of money....), Verona, Milan (the park/school near our house--with a ruined aviary etc)
OK: pour moi
on commence
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I hope you came to San Diego when we had good weather. Though good weather depends on what you are used to, I suppose.
Are you still reading a poem in French daily. That sounds wonderful though for me my French is elementary. I do try to speak to my 4-year old grandson in French a bit. Studies say you can retain a foreign language better before seven. I think he enjoys it. He goes around saying Mais,non.
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