tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post7621078921963074488..comments2024-01-24T11:41:28.022+00:00Comments on A Cuban In London: Pieces of Me, Pieces of HavanaA Cuban In Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-15832197492996552072014-11-11T23:07:40.109+00:002014-11-11T23:07:40.109+00:00Cuban, I leave you something you will certainly en...Cuban, I leave you something you will certainly enjoy.<br /><br />INDUSTRIALES CAMPEÓN http://youtu.be/CEj8iFLQSjAGeNeRaCiOn AsErEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17068497397137264695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-8293345853507559572014-11-09T03:22:22.181+00:002014-11-09T03:22:22.181+00:00It's amazing the things we remember! Not only ...It's amazing the things we remember! Not only that--it seems that sporting events play a serious role in those memories.Stephanie Farishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10461865229341760836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-51762474378339401022014-11-09T01:21:27.754+00:002014-11-09T01:21:27.754+00:00This very topic is a huge ongoing issue between my...This very topic is a huge ongoing issue between my sister and me. She believes in only one possible version of a memory, and it must be entirely fact-based. When I try to point out that even facts are malleable, her ears shut down. Things were the way she remembers them. Period. <br /><br />So thank you for providing the alternate view, which is so much more realistic.Jocelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03227519811818290510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-10561572784374734732014-11-08T07:14:37.637+00:002014-11-08T07:14:37.637+00:00PS: As you said, memmories sometimes can be trikin...PS: As you said, memmories sometimes can be triking.. You mentioned 1986.. I was talking about 1972, when thnx to the Marketti's HomeRun Cuba won over USA the mini Workd Series in Managua (Nicaragua). Else, the keybord can be triky too.. the correct name of the legendary Baseball narrator is Pedro "El Mago" Septién (and of course, his son Rafaél Septién, a placekiker of the Dallas Cowboys during 9 years)|https://www.blogger.com/profile/13998105611129602976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-79966410066561962682014-11-08T06:51:57.073+00:002014-11-08T06:51:57.073+00:00Thanks for the memmories! I was a small kid by the...Thanks for the memmories! I was a small kid by the time, but i still recall the unforgetable Don Pedro "El Mago" Spetién (his son Rafaél was a placekicker for the Dallas Cowboys, years later), shouting at the TV his classical "Se va, se vaa, se vaaaaaaaa y se fue!" <br /><br />Baseball... I have a lot of memmories about it.. excellent ones.. the view from The Hill, reading the catcher's suggestions.. looking the first base manager.. concentrating.. strenght, with the glove hiding your fingers so nobody can see what you are sending.. the snap..the whiplash from the arm and just watching.. no thoughts.. just the trajectory of the ball and then....<br /><br />Really fabolous!<br />As I said my friend, THANKS FOR THE MEMMORIES! ;)|https://www.blogger.com/profile/13998105611129602976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-17875283627960808882014-11-08T03:05:52.713+00:002014-11-08T03:05:52.713+00:00Memories and so sweet and sustain us when the memo...Memories and so sweet and sustain us when the memory is all we have left of that special time.<br />Glennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660567773516760768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-76222419156893268512014-11-08T01:27:01.351+00:002014-11-08T01:27:01.351+00:00Some memories remain vivid, no matter how many yea...Some memories remain vivid, no matter how many years pass. But sometimes, we choose to remember an altered version of a memory. Revisionist memory, I call it. It's easier on one's ego to remember the things we wish we'd said, the things we wish we'd done. <br /><br />As for baseball, I have some vivid memories of games I attended many years ago. Like the time a virtually no-name player pitch hit for the Senators at the top of the ninth, two outs, bases loaded. The Orioles were ahead by three runs. That unknown-to-us pitch hitter hit a grand slam, and our Os lost.Susan Flett Swiderskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09425315552148200073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-37303985757928397672014-11-08T01:23:38.252+00:002014-11-08T01:23:38.252+00:00I love this baseball story that is really a story ...I love this baseball story that is really a story of living, really living. Relyn Lawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01389583730002062714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-18918904895179398332014-11-08T01:09:08.075+00:002014-11-08T01:09:08.075+00:00I'm planning a trip to Cuba next year. Am exci...I'm planning a trip to Cuba next year. Am excited about visiting Havana. I wonder what memories I will make? Denise Covey https://www.blogger.com/profile/07106490051555233439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-77303890642180725882014-11-07T15:20:29.037+00:002014-11-07T15:20:29.037+00:00Memory is a strange thing, isn't it?
A fragmen...Memory is a strange thing, isn't it?<br />A fragment of a long forgotten tune...a fragrance...a name you haven't heard for years...any of these can bring it flooding back...and with it all associated emotions.<br />It can, indeed, be a "trickster"...Ygrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00300519608303898969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-25000840234751042792014-11-07T14:20:34.697+00:002014-11-07T14:20:34.697+00:00Memories can be wonderful and painful at the same ...Memories can be wonderful and painful at the same time...Optimistic Existentialisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11507986337866049924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-9897928693886334872014-11-07T13:40:27.327+00:002014-11-07T13:40:27.327+00:00Nice memory... I have a few baseball memories fro...Nice memory... I have a few baseball memories from the majors and from my childhood. I have been wanting to travel to Cuba to ride the train, now I will have to add visits to ballparkssagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17499891950639742366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-2845318274016500002014-11-07T09:42:28.526+00:002014-11-07T09:42:28.526+00:00I have resantly watched a scientific serie about t...I have resantly watched a scientific serie about the brain. It is even worse then I thought. We can´t trust the brain at all. I guess taht is why I take so many pics. Photos don´t lie as much as the brain. NatureFootstephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01340635075481959029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-71516404425858121842014-11-07T04:43:00.774+00:002014-11-07T04:43:00.774+00:00What a wonderful piece of writing!
Memories chang...What a wonderful piece of writing!<br /><br />Memories change and shift until it's hard to know what it is we remember...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-28821045586459396832014-11-06T21:08:14.074+00:002014-11-06T21:08:14.074+00:00Thanks for your comments. This memory was triggere...Thanks for your comments. This memory was triggered off by the following clip<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEj8iFLQSjA<br /><br />Straight away images from that night came flooding my mind. One of the tricks that memory plays on you is that sometimes we are absolutely "certain" that what we rememebr is faultless, there are no holes in our story. And yet... and yet... When you start poking that grey matter of yours, you discover that things might not have nbecessarily happened as you thought they had. However, that homerun in the bottom of the tenth inning. That was real and I can still my fourteen-year-old getting all choked up and emotional.<br /><br />Have a brilliant weekend.<br /><br />Greetings from London.A Cuban In Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-54900616491871022702014-11-06T19:05:24.359+00:002014-11-06T19:05:24.359+00:00When I worked - Child Protection - I needed to kno...When I worked - Child Protection - I needed to know a lot about how memory works (I had to do expert witness stuff, to back up children's recollections and explain how memories can blur, but that doesn't mean children are actively lying.)<br /><br />There are semantic memories (procedural stuff, like learning to drive, peeling a potato) and episodic - which is hugely subjective.<br /><br />And when episodes are repeated over and over they blur, making it difficult for a child to describe an incident when ... <br /><br />(Which makes it essential that funding for expert witnesses to back up children in Court shouldn't be cut!)JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-53052213240426674062014-11-06T15:58:26.020+00:002014-11-06T15:58:26.020+00:00Y con la edad aumentan los recuerdos de tu infanci...Y con la edad aumentan los recuerdos de tu infancia y juventud, es una buena cosa reconstruir tus vivencias.<br />No soy aficionada al deporte.<br />Saludos y un feliz fin de semana.Mari-Pi-Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661886117860375651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-22896041958866981872014-11-06T10:49:49.296+00:002014-11-06T10:49:49.296+00:00The older you get the clearer is your memory of in...The older you get the clearer is your memory of incidents that occurred many moons ago. Now let me think, what WAS it I wanted to remember yesterday?Valeriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12099030819314552958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-8072944324846238022014-11-06T10:14:13.566+00:002014-11-06T10:14:13.566+00:00I really can't comment other than to say beaut...I really can't comment other than to say beautifully written!David Cranmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04749857752139212888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-8615145113896168592014-11-06T05:12:32.049+00:002014-11-06T05:12:32.049+00:00that sounds like a cool game and i find it fascina...that sounds like a cool game and i find it fascinating how we can remember some things to the tiniest detail and also can recall the mood of the moment exactly... others blur with the years...Claudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03011763027311966186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-73904611419228997762014-11-06T04:12:14.787+00:002014-11-06T04:12:14.787+00:00Very impressive writing, CiL.
The craft, the sty...Very impressive writing, CiL. <br /><br />The craft, the style, the motion all blend well to form a montage of words which the reader is compelled to continue and not to pause until the end has been reached.<br /><br />And, the memory of which you write is a wonderful one.Fram Actualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-35084169927074298522014-11-06T03:46:00.384+00:002014-11-06T03:46:00.384+00:00Sometimes I can remember something that happened a...Sometimes I can remember something that happened a very long time ago (decades) like it was yesterday, and other times I find myself trying to remember other things. Great post, thanks for sharing.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12692170857496442623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-19138000635078488392014-11-06T03:28:13.783+00:002014-11-06T03:28:13.783+00:00ha. that is a pretty cool memory...i remember watc...ha. that is a pretty cool memory...i remember watching kirk gibson limp out to bat for the dodgers after getting hurt...and the hit...<br /><br />memory does creep up on us...and pop back to the front when we least expect it....Brian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722940075884718007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-16364904876906693852014-11-06T02:34:47.626+00:002014-11-06T02:34:47.626+00:00Memories are sure there, may never think of them f...Memories are sure there, may never think of them for 50 years and then something comes and you do, they are always there though.Pat Hatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07745293224202430152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165773290907101242.post-23198323974165224712014-11-06T00:52:35.509+00:002014-11-06T00:52:35.509+00:00Memories and what brings them back into focus are ...Memories and what brings them back into focus are like magic. Fleeting sometimes.. then like a flood - things come back in full force. I like your use of "trickster." It is indeed.Hilaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12787493532006658679noreply@blogger.com