Writing, Blogs and a Friend's Visit

Last year was really good. Writing my book, working on the web page, months of writing and creating without feeling tired, all the online courses exhibitions, etc. on the AIFO web page ...

 

Then suddenly one day, the energy seemed to disappear. The days passed meaningless. I was Lost in translation, don't know what that means exactly, but it sounds right aboout how I felt.

Now, suddenly this desire to write is back. Not the crazy energy that poured out all the time. More tired energy. Wonder, how long it would last. Had a look at new blog pages at Blogger.com, where Mukul has his blog. I like the colours of Mukul's blog. But I was wondering how many blogs are there about confused thoughts, random thoughts, wandering thoughts, fragments, confusion... we are full of persons, who feel they do not know how to express themselves and to whom! This is what drives most of blogs.

 

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My friend Pam Zinkin was here in Bologna, she left back for London yesterday. It was real fun to have her here in Bologna. I was her tourist guide, taking her around.

It was so good to have someone who is interested in arts and history, and who does not get bored if you talk about museums, paintings and the histories of churches. Most people do not want a real tourist guide, they just want someone to point the "important" things that are worth visiting so that when they go back, they can say that they saw them and show the pictures to prove it. To have guests who are more interested in shopping malls leaves me frustrated. I had a group of Indian students, mostly master courses, PhD students and post-docs, who were like that. Pam was not like that!

Pam is a wonderful person. She used to run the CBR course at London School of Child Health. I went to meet Prof. Pampiglione with her, in his 7th floor apartment that has wonderful views of the skyline of Bologna. They were old friends, were together in Mozambique thirty years ago.

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