tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post1152413447023031247..comments2024-01-24T11:41:28.022+00:00Comments on A Cuban In London: Sunday Mornings: Coffee, Reflection and MusicA Cuban In Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-17067344987331380502012-10-03T23:20:24.700+01:002012-10-03T23:20:24.700+01:00I simply love this post! It's so well that you...I simply love this post! It's so well that you've made us'll think back about our school years. I know what you mean. Maybe we've missed getting in touch with so many interesting people because of invisibility. As for me, I wanted to be like that girl, invisible, but for some reason I stood out some how. Maybe it was my temper or my personality.<br />You've made me remember what my literature professor and mentor said to me. "You're like a violet, spiritual and practical". He also meant I was one of those flowers that not many notice. <br />I even thought I was invisible for my students, but I've learnt that I was not.<br />As for you, I don't think you were invisible for anybody at the university, not for me at least. Happy week.<br />http://con-sentsconsentimientos.blogspot.com.es/p/loneliness-vs-solitude.htmlLumy Quinthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09972377930343361610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-40991860333964032572012-10-03T23:16:52.802+01:002012-10-03T23:16:52.802+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Lumy Quinthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09972377930343361610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-45974483175954979222012-10-02T22:02:29.090+01:002012-10-02T22:02:29.090+01:00Lovely piece of reminiscence. I've had similar...Lovely piece of reminiscence. I've had similar flashes of memories from my past, too, where you remember someone whom you never tried hard enough to know back then, but now you realize that s/he may have turned into a good friend if only you'd given them a chance. <br /><br />Capacity for reflection and acknowledgement of missed opportunities, I believe, are the some of the more positive blessings of growing older :).Hema Penmetsahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08448481721288158816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-75005984360182454592012-10-02T18:24:34.470+01:002012-10-02T18:24:34.470+01:00I've never been able to finish reading Middlem...I've never been able to finish reading Middlemarch. Not one of my favourite classics!<br /><br />I loved your story about your classmate. She reminds me of my husband. He is a quiet, shy and still man, who just gets on with his life...and yet he has been instrumental in implementing behind-the-scenes tax law changes in South Africa. I think it's because, as my Oupa (grandfather) said: "When a quiet man speaks, the heavens weep." If only the rest of us could learn to be still enough to listen.<br /><br />A great post, Cuban! :)<br /><br />Judy Croome | @judy_croomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17455755011354905278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-86452281945931232582012-10-01T20:52:15.965+01:002012-10-01T20:52:15.965+01:00Many thanks for your comments.
Isn't that cli...Many thanks for your comments.<br /><br />Isn't that clip a work of wonder? I've actually singed up to their youtube channel. Everytime I hear that song, it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand to attention.<br /><br />Greetings from London.A Cuban In Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-12036579542137861252012-10-01T07:03:33.220+01:002012-10-01T07:03:33.220+01:00What a beautiful, beautiful post, from start to fi...What a beautiful, beautiful post, from start to finish. I read Middlemarch long ago and adored it -- even that one sentence that you quoted is something to marvel at in how the words are strung together, no? It's funny, but I've been nostalgic of late, going through old photo albums of my high school and college years, and I was having many of the same thoughts. What strikes me as well is how little we actually do change and how easily we can remember "those days," how we were, who we are. <br /><br />Thank you, Cuban, for such a deep and thoughtful, lovely post.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-40244094686645401992012-10-01T06:11:12.346+01:002012-10-01T06:11:12.346+01:00Cuban, I know just what you mean. There are always...Cuban, I know just what you mean. There are always people who never stand out at school but later on in life if we get that chance to meet them again they shine and we wonder how we never noticed before. Sometimes we ARE those people and it's everyone else noticing. <br /><br />I'm only in close contact with one person I knew at school, most of the others I haven't seen in years. I'm not on Facebook either which is probably why I've got no idea what any of them are up to. This post has come closer in tempting me to join Facebook than anything else so far.<br /><br />That clip was stunning, I love Irish music and singing.<br /><br />JaiJai Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858987106548357551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-25943894254950761652012-09-30T23:19:02.849+01:002012-09-30T23:19:02.849+01:00ah...you've got me curious now! I just had a ...ah...you've got me curious now! I just had a friend who said that she was reading this and I put it on my list....behind three others at the moment....I may have to move it up!! Loved your thoughts about this invisibility thing....what is it that causes some to be more invisible than others I wonder? I don't think that I was invisible...but I had my own group that I hung out with...but when talking with some of my old classmates, it's funny how we have to pause to remember some of the people in our class. i don't know if it is that they were invisible, or that we just didn't hang out with the same people....what I wonder is if those that we don't remember remember us?? I guess that is something to ponder on a Sunday evening!!The Summer Kitchen Girlshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14705922236211577732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-2440524543586210582012-09-30T20:50:32.074+01:002012-09-30T20:50:32.074+01:00Excellent post. An old class mate looked me up, so...Excellent post. An old class mate looked me up, some time ago, via Facebook. It took me some time to remember who she was; I guess she did not stand out in my memories. I enjoyed conversing with her, and was please she remembered me. Like the Cindy Jordan song; what a voice.Feisty Cronehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02821808042889216134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-60433693865233248752012-09-30T20:32:46.199+01:002012-09-30T20:32:46.199+01:00Thanks a lot for your comments.
Dominic, you had ...Thanks a lot for your comments.<br /><br />Dominic, you had me in stitches. Funny htta I just read yet another good review about it. But others haven't been so kind.<br /><br />Claudia, thanks for swinging by. Perhaps there are people who don't want to unfold. But for me it's somewhat eerie to run into those faces again more than twenty years later in a context so different from the one I left them in.<br /><br />Mim, what made her stand out in the photo (and apologies, because that's not very clear in the post, but I don't want to change it) is that she was surrounded by people apparently associated with my acquaintance at uni. <br /><br />This "invisible" girl was in my secondary schoo. How did she skip that middle level (college) and jumped straight to my post-university days? The photo was taken in Cuba when this acquaitance from uni went back (she lives in the States) to visit her family. For all I know she might not even know my ex-classmate, but I doubt it. All the (mainly) women in the photo were smiling and looked as if they knew each other.<br /><br />Paula, thanks for your words. I was thinking the exact thing when writing this post. What if I was an "invisible", too, for some people? EVen though I did stand out for being loud and being the soul of the party when we all went out on Saturday night, I sometimes retreated to my own little cave. So, maybe some people might not have even known who I was.<br /><br />I hope you all have a great week.<br /><br />Greetings from London.A Cuban In Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-87169596688383426832012-09-30T19:07:45.171+01:002012-09-30T19:07:45.171+01:00For me, when I do that kind of recollection that i...For me, when I do that kind of recollection that involves all of my senses, it feels much like being in a time warp or time travel. As though that memory was a worm hole back to the past.<br />I believe that I was one of those invisible people in high school. I'll never know for sure. But, I've learned that, "if your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!".Paula Scott Molokai Girl Studiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03358261311454047999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-72854002500808934162012-09-30T18:03:57.696+01:002012-09-30T18:03:57.696+01:00I wonder what made her stand out in the photo as s...I wonder what made her stand out in the photo as she never did back then.<br /><br />Regards from the obscure provinces . . .Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13039776441665375475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-16704522441431908142012-09-30T12:59:54.238+01:002012-09-30T12:59:54.238+01:00very cool...there were some classmates like her in...very cool...there were some classmates like her in my class as well..and after meeting them years later i found that they had bloomed and are now even more visible than those "stars" from back then...think some need just time to unfold.. happy sunday to you..Claudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03011763027311966186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-36654405699732592582012-09-30T10:28:41.542+01:002012-09-30T10:28:41.542+01:00I read Middlemarch last year and enjoyed it. I see...I read Middlemarch last year and enjoyed it. I see JK Rowling's latest effort has been dubbed "Mugglemarch". I suspect this is unfair to George Eliot. <br />Dominic Rivronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618013365521035400noreply@blogger.com