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Magpie Salmagundi: December 2011

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CNN's Hero of the Year. This news item forwarded by Michael trumps all other subjects I might have covered in my first post after returning to Jakarta. What a remarkable woman! Http:/ edition.cnn.com/2011/12/11/living/cnn-heroes/index.html? Mother Robin' wins CNN Hero of the Year. December 12, 2011. Robin Lim, an American woman who has helped thousands of poor Indonesian women have a healthy pregnancy and birth, was named the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year on Sunday night. Through her Yayasan Bumi Sehat.

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Magpie Salmagundi: In and around Mirepoix (day one)

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In and around Mirepoix (day one). First stop, unplanned, was Fanjeaux:. Les Halles — 16th/17th century. Escapee from "The Little Shop of Horrors.". Like every museum we had wanted to see in the Ariège-Pyrénées, the château was fermé: the downside of being tourists in November. This is a photo from a poster in the village. Camon, one of "les plus beaux villages de France":. One of the beautiful inhabitants (for Kate). A crack in the château-abbaye wall, which reveals . . . View my complete profile. Zymogl...

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Magpie Salmagundi: March 2012

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Can mean either theater or puppet and during our three stays in Indonesia, we've become familiar with (and own examples of) three puppet types: light-and-shadow wayang kulit. Crafted from water buffalo hide; 3-D wooden wayang golek;. And flat wooden wayang klitik,. Also shadow puppets. According to Wikipedia, wood is less durable than leather in battle scenes; wayang klitik. Are sometimes made with leather arms to minimize the damage. This tradition is also fronted by a dalang. Detail from middle scroll.

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Magpie Salmagundi: April 2012

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So often we're reminded of how we've merely skimmed the surface of Indonesian culture. Featured a stunning photo essay on the Sundanese blade known as a kujang. All expats in Indonesia are familiar with the Javanese kris. But this West Java variant was unfamiliar to Michael and me. Unfortunately, I can't access the actual newspaper photos, but I can transcribe the caption:. Weapon of the Land. From http:/ pukulancimandeuk.blogspot.com/2010/11/kujang-blade-of-sunda-part-1.html. Well I've been threatening ...

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Magpie Salmagundi: une église rupestre

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For some unknown reason, the editors of the Michelin Green Guide have chosen to overlook this troglodyte church, the high point of our trip (in our 2002 edition anyway). Perhaps villagers in tiny Vals, though, would prefer not to be overrun by rubberneckers like us — even if most tourists would be pleased to drop several euros into the tronc. From the sublime to the quotidian: how the French living in small villages like this still manage to enjoy fine meats and foie gras. I'm a collector: antique beads,...

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Magpie Salmagundi: July 2013

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I started this blog as a repository for quotations and entertaining facts. Now I'm returning to first principles. From CAM magazine, Issue 69, page 12. Becky Allen: "Secret Cambridge: Ladders to Heaven.". The grave of the most famous person of all buried there [Ascension Parish Burial Ground, off Huntingdon Road], Ludwig Wittgenstein, has simply his name and dates and nothing more because he famously said that you should not utter more than you can verify. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). En Tequila Es Verdad.

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Magpie Salmagundi: March 2014

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Roman glass in Larnaka's Pierides Museum. Here are the family benefactors whose antiquarian enthusiasm powered the conversion of their home into a museum. I won't attempt to pronounce on the looting controversy that rages whenever private collectors trump archaeologists in their acquisitions. Roman glass in all its translucent glory (some overlap here since both Michael and I were snapping away):. Four fabulous close-ups taken by Myrna and Andrew on their last visit to Larnaka:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Magpie Salmagundi: October 2013

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8212; Day 4. From Mende, in the Lozère, back home to Laroque des Albères, Pyrénées Orientales, via the Tarn and Aveyron départements. The canyon formed by the Tarn River, flanked on either side with crags topped by causses (. Verdant limestone plateaus) and villages clustered near the shore, offers the sort of magnificent scenery that's difficult, for us anyway, to capture with a camera. Detail from photo above. We had our lunchtime picnic in the Gorges de la Jonte, a favorite destination of J-F's father.

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Magpie Salmagundi: May 2012

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Indonesia has huge potential. Its leaders aren't exaggerating either the natural resources or the human capital that could see the country taking its place at the table with the big guys. But — the author of this article is also not exaggerating. We all moan about the traffic here in Jakarta, but issues like this are a far greater problem. From The New York Times. Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune. Capitalization or lack thereof for "the" copied from the Old Gray Lady herself]. Alex is the fi...