December 23, 2024 4:39 am

OUTLANDER – Novel by Diana Gabaldon

Currently she lives in Scottsdale (Arizona), with her husband – they have three adult children – (but also with two big, fat dachshunds, 2.5 cats, a varying number of parakeets and a lot of uninvited wildlife). Diana J. Gabaldon is an American author, known for the Outlander series of novels. Her books merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction, …

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ARIZONA POEMS

HEATHROW, IN TRANSIT – By James Watters The warmth of Nairobi in January is gone now. Here it’s cold and drizzly, a savannah of tarmac and metal jumbos before me. My natural rhythms have given way, to this soaring erratic chase of the sun. But I return to warmth, the desert heat of southern Arizona, and the ardent glow, of …

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EVERYONE BRINGS ON ITS FACE THE DUST OF THE ROAD HE DID – Route 66, eastbound. After California, Arizona

“Everyone brings on its face the dust of the road he did.” This is what to us remember, with a wise proverb, the native Indians of North America. Starting to Route 66 http://meetingbenches.com/2016/08/ready-for-the-big-adventure-choose-your-kicks-on-route-66/ on our face we have the memory of California, a special imprint http://meetingbenches.com/2016/08/inner-landscapes-california/ made of views and music, a book, and poems but also some pictures, along …

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PAINTING THE MOST EXPRESSIVE PART OF THE FACE – Margaret Keane, painting in Modigliani’s way, with the colors of VanGogh, Klimt and Picasso

MARGARET KEANE 1/3 – She created a unique, popular artistic aesthetic during the 1960s, though unknown to the public for some time. She was born on September day in 1927 in Nashville (Tennessee). She immersed herself in art from an early age, and had a penchant for creating characters with large, looming eyes, her distinctive way to paintin of large-eyed …

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MIDDLESEX – Novel by Jeffrey Kent Eugenides

He knew he wanted to be a writer from a relatively early age. Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American novelist, and was born in Detroit, to a father of Greek descent He attended Grosse Pointe’s private University Liggett School and took his undergraduate degree at Brown University. From 1999 to 2004, Eugenides lived in Berlin, Germany, where he moved after …

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POETIC SHADES, ON WINDY CALIFORNIA

FLYING AT FORTY – Poem by Erica Jong You call me courageous, I who grew up gnawing on books, as some kids gnaw on bubble gum, who married disastrously not once but three times, yet have a lovely daughter, I would not undo for all the dope in California. Fear was my element, fear my contagion. I swam in it, …

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CALIFORNIA SOUNDS

Arielle – California https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvvUjZ0xDQY Teaser California Sounds – Stevie Ann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOnuPIXLJ8Y Relaxing 3 Hour Video of California Ocean Waves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmPzbZVUp3g OC California Music + Pictures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKjoUUR2l8k

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EATING, LIKE IN A FILM – 87 Aquarium Way, Long Beach / California

Visiting the viewing deck of Santa Monica, after filling our eyes with the color of the Ocean Avenue gardens, we were hungry, hungry for shrimp and prawns. The good reviews featured (along the renowned fame due to the film), they were led up to the number 87 Aquarium Way (Long Beach, California). Shrimp and fresh fish, are the dishes that …

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