Saturday, October 11, 2008

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Autumn Light

This week I have been, for the first time, nostalgic of my year to travel. As I explained at least 10 people, this is not to travel with my backpack that I miss, but this freedom of spirit and action that makes the journey more than a month .

I think those hours spent reading the brilliant Stephan Zweig in Montpellier, the whole morning walking near the sea and then write the blue I had seen dazzle, Croatia and Barcelona. I think in Amsterdam with Annie, then with Nancy, I think of those friends met in India and Southeast Asia, I think of Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Cesky Krumlov, Norway with Kine, to everywhere with Matt ...


I tell myself that I was privileged to enjoy all that freedom. Fortunate to be able to live one year with the main concern of choosing which museum I will visit or what wine I tasted in the evening. I liked walking outdoors in the spring of Norway, taking 1000 pictures of Japanese cherry blossoms, Beijing, Paris and Stockholm. I liked so much that I come back in bits and pieces scattered.


This nostalgia is sometimes blissful, but it also keeps me in the moment, the only one that really counts. Here, right now, the leaves glow of beauty and I do not take the time to look, while a lot of tourists make the trip to Asia for the sole purpose of seeing this fall is mine. Speaking of leaves, I think that's 10 ans que je n'ai pas vu des arbres enflammés de coloris automnaux. L'an passé, nous étions en Roumanie, à ce temps-ci. La lumière était douce et les matins étaient frais, dans le Maramures surtout, mais on était loin de nos ocres et de nos orange brûlé. Je sais que je suis extrêmement chanceuse de pouvoir assister à ce spectacle, mais je voudrais seulement prendre le temps d'en profiter un peu plus. Je ne voudrais pas, comme je l'ai déjà fait, passer à côté de l'automne, la tête enfouie dans mes devoirs de grammaire, mes corrections et mes préparations de cours. Je m'en vais faire du camping avec mes élèves la fin de semaine prochaine. Souhaitez-nous du beau time. I would walk alone or with young people, and take time to enjoy the fall that goes so fast, too fast.

Yes, nostalgia hit me this week, but I must not let it win. Regret because at the German villages and mountains of Austria, I pass the wealth around me. I can choose to be free, choose to continue reading Zweig, keep writing. No stopping me. Me sometimes. Least now, I hope. I'm back. Autumn leaves, do not fly immediately, heart in Hanoi, I have not yet taken the time to look at you and well penetrating my your colors, so pretty when they contrast with a blue sky of late afternoon.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

L.i.c.plan Jeevan Suraksha

What Not to Wear ... Version leaders debate

I quietly read my press this morning, drinking my coffee "Mixed Roastery" and watching the yellow leaves fall off. Everything was going well, until that time I started to read the editorial Lysiane Gagnon on again on the leaders' debate.
I largely agree with what she wrote: It is true that the leaders were clearly more comfortable in their mother tongue and should, in Canada, better learn our second language . Where my opinion differs from that de madame Gagnon, c'est lorsqu'elle se met à critiquer l'habillement et la coiffure de la chef du Parti vert, Elizabeth May, tant lors du débat franco que lors du débat anglo. Je suis d'accord avec elle pour l'accoutrement de madame May au débat franco: la veste était trop décontracte, et le pendentif à fleur pas tout à fait assez chic pour la circonstance. Mais au débat anglo, c'est clair que la cheffe écolo a suivi les conseils d'une styliste de la CBC. Son habillement était juste correct, selon moi: assez chic, pas snob, simple comme paraît l'être la dame. Ses cheveux? Corrects, selon moi. Laids, selon madame Gagnon, qui conseille à madame May d'apprendre à s'arranger When is visiting people, nothing less. But the head of the Green Party is a single mother who advocates social values and should certainly not be a millionaire. What would Mrs. Gagnon? She dresses like Britney Spears, Julie Couillard and Belinda Stronach? For men, it's simple suit and tie is always the case. For women it's different. Personally, I admire the simplicity of dress and the authenticity of a woman who does not have the nerve to dress like a rich bourgeois to come and defend people's interest ecologists from the left that it represents. Of course, I would suggest to follow some courses in French, but I salute his courage and wish him to continue to be well enough to stay in her skin herself. His dress and her hair in English debate was a good example for thousands of women "normal" as the company's Dove campaign has been for millions of women "normal" years ago. To look good on television as in life, no need to be a canon of beauty, just be genuine and to have the courage to express his ideas with sincerity, even if chefs do not take too what is there ... Bravo Ms. May. I do not vote for your party, but you have inspired me by your courage, your ideals and your presence simple and human in this world of millions of dollars and tie boring.