Long Time no Blog
Hi. Its been awhile since I blogged. Today I found out that a friend and mentor Gene Harris of Art by God was ill. He is very old and stills works very hard at keeping his business afloat. Several years ago he hired me to redo his website and I became re-hooked on paleontology and fossil hunting-something which I used to do many years ago before I moved to South Florida.
Many things have happened in one month. Firstly, the Historic Lyric Theater has removed the fencing and made itself more welcoming to the community. That is not to say I did not feel welcomed when I went to that Affordable Housing Town Hall meeting several weeks ago…
Two weeks ago a store/restaurant opened across the street from our apartment building. Every night they have a cluster of kids swarming for their delicious water ices and candies. The store brings additional development to the neighborhood. I also noticed a print shop opening down the street on 11th doing remodeling as well. There was the Miami Dade Community College Book Fair and then the Friends of the Miami Public Library book sale and now Art Basel. A busy month.
Today I was at the Miami Mission Charity Motors. A Haitian couple drove up in their XLT SUV. They walked up to the owner and handed him the keys. The car was just sitting in the driveway they said and maybe another family could use it. He wrote them a donation receipt and they left with a friend. The owner of Charity Motors tells me that good people like that couple stop by every day..
Other mentions in this blog are the four hundreth anniversary of Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote de la Mancha. I gave it to my daughter to read but it is still sitting on her dresser. It is one of my favorite books and I wanted her to see how good a read it is. I was reading an article in the magazine Americas about the country Suriname. It is South America’s most ethnically diverse countries and the youngest at only 30 years old. 27 percent of the country are Hindu, then Islamic and Christian and other religions are practiced. Over twenty different languages are spoken there. Did I also mention the world’s largest nature preserve? I am learning more about South America and will travel there whenever I get a chance. Is it a malpropism to call it “Latin America?”
We watched Miami Vice last night. There is that great scene of Overtown which is mentionned in the dialogue towards the middle of the movie. What great scenery- especially of Habana. A friend says that it is not Cuba but Puerto Rico made to look like Habana.. They even filmed parts of the movie in Port of Prince. My friend Genevieve kept saying something about Ton Ton’s..
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