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~Seeing the light in Auvers-sur-Oise
I took one last train trip before leaving Paris – to Auvers-sur-Oise, the tiny town about 20 miles from Paris where Vincent Van Gogh lived and painted a few months before finally shooting himself. I missed the daily train from Paris, so I took the RER (suburban train) to Pontoise and then a bus from […]
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~The Good Road to Giverny
August 9, 2009
I was dying to take a train trip during my last week in Paris, and one of the two destinations I had in mind was Giverny – home of Claude Monet. It’s very popular with tourists, and the directions are pretty clear-cut: Take the Rouen-bound train from Gare St. Lazare to Vernon. Then take a […]
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~View from the Bois de Vincennes
August 1, 2009
The last week in Paris was so full. I had a few things on my list that I really wanted to do before I left, several of which will have to wait till “next time.” But I did want to write about a few of them before I closed up my little blog – three […]
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~Tutoyer – I know you
July 20, 2009
One of the joys of being here in Paris has been the anonymity. I know virtually no one here. At the height of my popularity, when Joe, Mary, and my friend Sylvie were in town, I knew three people – out of two million. I carry identification and the phone numbers of local people who […]
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~Last Week in Paris!
July 18, 2009
Everything I am doing feels like it has an explanation point after it now. It’s hard to believe I’ll be home this time next week (for one day, before leaving for Colorado to visit my parents). Very hard to believe I’ve been here for six weeks. Joe and Mary returned last week from Togo and […]
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~To save and enjoy the world, perchance to sleep through the night once in a while
July 14, 2009
It was easy when my children were small to feel like everything held a certain unity, easy to feel that I “willed one thing” as Soren Kierkegaard suggests is crucial to the spiritual life. I wanted to raise my children well. Everything in my day could be understood within that context. What time we woke […]
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~Partager un Potager: A Community Garden in Central Paris
July 11, 2009
I posted this garden report in my Gainesville blog: There is a wonderful demonstration garden right in the center of Paris in front of the l’Hotel de Ville, a 15th century municipal building. The closest space we have like this is Gainesville I think is City Hall, a plain 1960s building surrounded by concrete and […]
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