Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Erwartung
DHL is shipping the Gregory the Great painting from Savannah.
It's supposed to arrive Friday.
Pimm Fox had his birthday.1960 was the tail end of the boomers.
I ordered for the Vernissage on Sunday from Fresh Direct.
Rain, snow and wind are forecast for the event. I'll settle for snow.
Yesterday I bought a putto by Winifred McNeill from MDH Fine Arts. vide infra.
It's supposed to arrive Friday.
Pimm Fox had his birthday.1960 was the tail end of the boomers.
I ordered for the Vernissage on Sunday from Fresh Direct.
Rain, snow and wind are forecast for the event. I'll settle for snow.
Yesterday I bought a putto by Winifred McNeill from MDH Fine Arts. vide infra.
Bibliotheca selecta -
Here is another Wiki I wrote on Jesuit historical culture.
Bibliotheca selecta is a bibliographic almanac by the Jesuit Antonio Possevino, published in two folio volumes by the Vatican printer Domenico Basa in 1593. The full title was Bibliotheca selecta de ratione studiorum in Historia, In Disciplinis, in salute omnium procuranda. It represents an authoritative and up-to-date Jesuit compendium of Counter Reformation knowledge.
Part I, {Books 1-11} outlines a comprehensive bibliography on theology, scholastic, catechetical and controversial, and incorporates works by such contemporary Jesuit missionaries as Alessandro Valegnano and Edmund Campion.
Part II summarizes the literature and bibliography for law {12}, philosophy {13} and medicine {14). Possevino is creating an authorized bibliography of the traditional arts and sciences elaborating the humanistic educational precepts of the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum. The liberal arts are dealt with in the final books on architecture and geography {15}, history {16} poetry & painting {17} and rhetoric {18}. The major thrust of Possevino's orthodox compendium is the creation of a bibliography of the humanist culture of the Late Renaissance that is both confidently encyclopedic and outspokenly anti-heretical. The criterion of orthodoxy is underscored in his previous Iudicium de Nuae, Iohannis Bodini, Philippe-Mornaei et Machiavelli scripta, 1592, which placed the works of leading writers such as Niccolò Machiavelli and Jean Bodin on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. In addition to two revised folio editions of the Bibliotheca selecta printed in Venice, 1603 and Cologne, 1607, several books were reprinted in separate editions, notably Book 16, as Apparatus ad historiam omnium gentium (1596), a thorough bibliography of the ancient and contemporary literature of world history reworking and updating Bodin's Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem (1566).
Bibliotheca selecta is a bibliographic almanac by the Jesuit Antonio Possevino, published in two folio volumes by the Vatican printer Domenico Basa in 1593. The full title was Bibliotheca selecta de ratione studiorum in Historia, In Disciplinis, in salute omnium procuranda. It represents an authoritative and up-to-date Jesuit compendium of Counter Reformation knowledge.
Part I, {Books 1-11} outlines a comprehensive bibliography on theology, scholastic, catechetical and controversial, and incorporates works by such contemporary Jesuit missionaries as Alessandro Valegnano and Edmund Campion.
Part II summarizes the literature and bibliography for law {12}, philosophy {13} and medicine {14). Possevino is creating an authorized bibliography of the traditional arts and sciences elaborating the humanistic educational precepts of the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum. The liberal arts are dealt with in the final books on architecture and geography {15}, history {16} poetry & painting {17} and rhetoric {18}. The major thrust of Possevino's orthodox compendium is the creation of a bibliography of the humanist culture of the Late Renaissance that is both confidently encyclopedic and outspokenly anti-heretical. The criterion of orthodoxy is underscored in his previous Iudicium de Nuae, Iohannis Bodini, Philippe-Mornaei et Machiavelli scripta, 1592, which placed the works of leading writers such as Niccolò Machiavelli and Jean Bodin on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. In addition to two revised folio editions of the Bibliotheca selecta printed in Venice, 1603 and Cologne, 1607, several books were reprinted in separate editions, notably Book 16, as Apparatus ad historiam omnium gentium (1596), a thorough bibliography of the ancient and contemporary literature of world history reworking and updating Bodin's Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem (1566).
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Daniello Bartoli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniello Bartoli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is mostly by me.
It makes me want to get my hands on the complete Marietti edition, the one that I read in a folio ediion at the Casa Scrittori of the Archivum Historicum of the Society of Jesus.
It took me months and months and months to read the Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu
This is mostly by me.
It makes me want to get my hands on the complete Marietti edition, the one that I read in a folio ediion at the Casa Scrittori of the Archivum Historicum of the Society of Jesus.
It took me months and months and months to read the Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu
Daniello Bartoli
Bartoli is at the center of my India.
So it's time that I introduce him,
Above I'll put what I wrote in Wikipedia.
Jesuit missions in India are the subject of Book VI of his Asia (1653)
This is what I reread for my trip and want to translate into English.
Hoc Opus, hic Labor.
So it's time that I introduce him,
Above I'll put what I wrote in Wikipedia.
Jesuit missions in India are the subject of Book VI of his Asia (1653)
This is what I reread for my trip and want to translate into English.
Hoc Opus, hic Labor.
L'Enfance du Christ
Today is the birthday of Hector Berlioz in 1803.
In my adolescence I idolized Berlioz.
He was the Romantic artist, par excellence.
The heroic and gigantic side of Berlioz completely absorbed me.
Romeo and Juliette, Te Deum, Requiem: Works of Genius and Poetry.
Think of the exquisite literary taste, that made him also an excellent critic.
Faust, Shakespeare, Byron, Vergil and the incomparable poetry of Les Nuits D'Ete.
I even wrote a sonnet.
Hommage to Hector Berlioz.
Perhaps I can locate it.
Here is the W-link
In my adolescence I idolized Berlioz.
He was the Romantic artist, par excellence.
The heroic and gigantic side of Berlioz completely absorbed me.
Romeo and Juliette, Te Deum, Requiem: Works of Genius and Poetry.
Think of the exquisite literary taste, that made him also an excellent critic.
Faust, Shakespeare, Byron, Vergil and the incomparable poetry of Les Nuits D'Ete.
I even wrote a sonnet.
Hommage to Hector Berlioz.
Perhaps I can locate it.
Here is the W-link
Monday, December 10, 2007
Vernissage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vernissage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is the title of my evite for Sunday's reception in honour of my new painting.
This is the title of my evite for Sunday's reception in honour of my new painting.
gregory woods backpack - Google Search
gregory woods backpack - Google Search
Since my last entry I find that my blog now appears anent to the backpacks in Google.
Is this a blogging tailspin?
Talk about self-referential!
Since my last entry I find that my blog now appears anent to the backpacks in Google.
Is this a blogging tailspin?
Talk about self-referential!
Another Film listing for Gregory Woods
Click on my name and see what comes up.
http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1293432/Gregory-Woods
http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1293432/Gregory-Woods
Gregory Woods
Gregory Woods
I'm in the IMDb.
Who knew!
Also in the New York Times Movies data base for the subtitles for Fortini/Cani [1975]
There is also a listing for Gregory Woods backpack in the Google Index, but although I have seen the product at Paragon several years ago I didn't find it in the Gregory catalogue. I guess my bag is an old bag.
I'm in the IMDb.
Who knew!
Also in the New York Times Movies data base for the subtitles for Fortini/Cani [1975]
There is also a listing for Gregory Woods backpack in the Google Index, but although I have seen the product at Paragon several years ago I didn't find it in the Gregory catalogue. I guess my bag is an old bag.
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Winifred McNeill
Winifred McNeill
This is the artist's website. Very interesting.
The Putto I want is entitles possession, you can locate it on the website of the MDH Gallery with the link on the previous blog.
I'm going to try to capture it and put it here, so sensual, so spatial, so Baroque, so MOI!
This is the artist's website. Very interesting.
The Putto I want is entitles possession, you can locate it on the website of the MDH Gallery with the link on the previous blog.
I'm going to try to capture it and put it here, so sensual, so spatial, so Baroque, so MOI!
Welcome To MDH Fine Arts
Welcome To MDH Fine Arts
Yesterday I went to Winifred McNeill's show at the MDH Fine Arts Gallery, 233 west 19th St.
and am arranging to buy this marvelous piece.
I'll try to enter the evite to her show.
After the show we had a great dinner at El Quixote, the classic Spanish restaurant in the Chelsea Hotel on West 23rd St. John and Winifred and their colleague friends, Debbie and Michael made for a great time and i showed my pix from the India trip, My India.
Yesterday I went to Winifred McNeill's show at the MDH Fine Arts Gallery, 233 west 19th St.
and am arranging to buy this marvelous piece.
I'll try to enter the evite to her show.
After the show we had a great dinner at El Quixote, the classic Spanish restaurant in the Chelsea Hotel on West 23rd St. John and Winifred and their colleague friends, Debbie and Michael made for a great time and i showed my pix from the India trip, My India.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Benefit St. Stroll, Providence
Wonderful visit to Providence with the magnificent Dwights, Ron and Pam in their glorious house and gardens.
Christmas decorations and caroling.
Open House 1 to 8. Lots of local friends.
Beautiful day
Friday, December 7, 2007
Brooklyn Heights, St. Ann's Church and Environs
Great New York Winter weather, cold, crisp, clear.
Great builings on Montague Strret and wonderful skyline.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Anthony de Mello, S.J., 1931-1987
Anthony de Mello (priest) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7194350940635121846
Here's a link to some pretty mind blowing wisdom about being with God in the world, being aware and loving.
De Mello was a Jesuit from India, full of humor and atuned to a universal striving for AWARENESS.
Here's a link to some pretty mind blowing wisdom about being with God in the world, being aware and loving.
De Mello was a Jesuit from India, full of humor and atuned to a universal striving for AWARENESS.
Sunday Dinner with Beth and Dorry
We went to a great Indian restaurant on the southwest corner of First Ave. and Indian Restaurant row on East 6th Street. We all ordered lamb. It was fun to show my pix of India.
Big Fresh Pond, Southampton
It was a really great visit with Molly and Trevor. We had a jamboree of India tidbits and watched Jean Renoir's beautiful 1951 tribute, THE RIVER,so full of color and reverence for life.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Tomb of Xavier
This is the shrine containing the saint's body [minus right arm] in the Jesuit Church of Bom Gesu [1595] in Old Goa.
Shrine to St. Francis Xavier in Fontainhas, Panjim
One of my best pictures of the colonial section of Panjim, capital of Goa.
The wax melted into the river you see as the basis of the conflagration.
More Xaveriana- Bartoli
Only one image at a post, so it seems for now.
Here is another mix of an illustration of a 19th century life of the saint translated from Bartoli's ASIA and the statue of his ecstatic contemplation of the cross that I bought a fair copy of at Bom Gesu.
Xaveriana
The previous entry was copied and pasted from a Wikipedia article on the saint.
Google has enhanced the entire Microsoft network with this blog facilitation.
Here are some images of FX from My India.
Monday, December 3, 2007
December 3, Feast of St. Francis Xavier
Death
The Altar of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines. St. Francis is the principal patron of the town, together with Our Lady of Escalera.On 21 November, on Shangchuan Island, he fainted after celebrating Mass. He died on 3 December 1552, at age 46, without having reached mainland China.
He was first buried on a beach of Shangchuan Island. His incorrupt body was taken from the island in February 1553 and was temporarily buried in St. Paul's church in Malacca on 22 March, 1553. An open grave in the church now marks the place of Xavier's burial. Pereira came back from Goa, removed the corpse shortly after April 15, 1553, and moved it to his house.
On 11 December, 1553, Xavier's body was shipped to Goa. The body is now in the in the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Goa, where it was placed in a glass container encased in a silver casket on December 2, 1637.
Casket of Saint Francis Xavier in the Basilica of Bom Jesus in GoaThe right forearm, which Xavier used to bless and baptize his converts, was detached by Pr. Gen. Claudio Acquaviva in 1614. It has been displayed since in a silver reliquary at the main Jesuit church in Rome, Il Gesù[2].
In 1950 this arm, as a "relic," was taken on tour, including in the United States, where a photograph of it was published in Life Magazine. A doctor's wife wrote to the magazine saying, "That's not a right arm, it's a left arm." The magazine replied, saying that can't be--the saint's left arm is still attached to his body, buried in India.
[edit] Legacy
St. Francis Xavier is noteworthy for his missionary work, both as organizer and as pioneer. By his compromises in India with the Christians of St. Thomas, he developed the Jesuit missionary methods along lines that subsequently became a successful blueprint for his order to follow. His efforts left a significant impression upon the missionary history of India and, as one of the first Jesuit missionaries to the East Indies, his work is of fundamental significance to the propagation of Christianity in China and Japan. He was a inspiration to many people with his miraculous work.
Pope Benedict XVI said of both Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier: "not only their history which was interwoven for many years from Paris and Rome, but a unique desire — a unique passion, it could be said — moved and sustained them through different human events: the passion to give to God-Trinity a glory always greater and to work for the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ to the peoples who had been ignored."[3]
As the foremost saint from Navarre and one of the main Jesuit saints, he is very venerated in Spain and the Hispanic countries where Francisco Javier or Javier are common male given names[4]. As a spin-off, Xavier itself became a male name popular in Portugal, Brazil, France, Belgium, and southern Italy. In Austria and Bavaria the name is spelled as Xaver (pronounced Ksaber and often used in addition to Francis as Franz-Xaver. Xavier is one of the few names starting with X in English.
The Altar of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines. St. Francis is the principal patron of the town, together with Our Lady of Escalera.On 21 November, on Shangchuan Island, he fainted after celebrating Mass. He died on 3 December 1552, at age 46, without having reached mainland China.
He was first buried on a beach of Shangchuan Island. His incorrupt body was taken from the island in February 1553 and was temporarily buried in St. Paul's church in Malacca on 22 March, 1553. An open grave in the church now marks the place of Xavier's burial. Pereira came back from Goa, removed the corpse shortly after April 15, 1553, and moved it to his house.
On 11 December, 1553, Xavier's body was shipped to Goa. The body is now in the in the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Goa, where it was placed in a glass container encased in a silver casket on December 2, 1637.
Casket of Saint Francis Xavier in the Basilica of Bom Jesus in GoaThe right forearm, which Xavier used to bless and baptize his converts, was detached by Pr. Gen. Claudio Acquaviva in 1614. It has been displayed since in a silver reliquary at the main Jesuit church in Rome, Il Gesù[2].
In 1950 this arm, as a "relic," was taken on tour, including in the United States, where a photograph of it was published in Life Magazine. A doctor's wife wrote to the magazine saying, "That's not a right arm, it's a left arm." The magazine replied, saying that can't be--the saint's left arm is still attached to his body, buried in India.
[edit] Legacy
St. Francis Xavier is noteworthy for his missionary work, both as organizer and as pioneer. By his compromises in India with the Christians of St. Thomas, he developed the Jesuit missionary methods along lines that subsequently became a successful blueprint for his order to follow. His efforts left a significant impression upon the missionary history of India and, as one of the first Jesuit missionaries to the East Indies, his work is of fundamental significance to the propagation of Christianity in China and Japan. He was a inspiration to many people with his miraculous work.
Pope Benedict XVI said of both Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier: "not only their history which was interwoven for many years from Paris and Rome, but a unique desire — a unique passion, it could be said — moved and sustained them through different human events: the passion to give to God-Trinity a glory always greater and to work for the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ to the peoples who had been ignored."[3]
As the foremost saint from Navarre and one of the main Jesuit saints, he is very venerated in Spain and the Hispanic countries where Francisco Javier or Javier are common male given names[4]. As a spin-off, Xavier itself became a male name popular in Portugal, Brazil, France, Belgium, and southern Italy. In Austria and Bavaria the name is spelled as Xaver (pronounced Ksaber and often used in addition to Francis as Franz-Xaver. Xavier is one of the few names starting with X in English.
New York City, HOME
Well, it's just GREAT to be home.
Everything went well in Savannah and my teeth are in place and working again!
My Gregory painting, Non Angli, Sed Angeli going to be shipped this week.
Stephanie, the artist, is going to put a gold border around it, instead of the silver.
Can't upload the painting, so here's another.
This is the marvelous new Delhi Metro at Connaught Circle.
What an inviting prospect: Central Park
But the one I see from my window is the orginal and still the greatest.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
My India, or the Convent of the Sacred Heart
This is the title of my planned narrative.
Nothing too complicated,
with the halo and suggestion of the hypergeographical and hagiographical references intact.
India is the heart, Gregory David Roberts
My artist friend from Savannah,
Stephanie Usery,
has shown me the actuality of the religious images of Catholic piety,
particulary the images of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
She was interest in the portrait of an Indian man, as the image of the Sacred Heart.
That image I saw all over Southern India, in Goa and Kerala.
It is the image of god as son and mother.
For me it is an essential image that Chirstianity has contributed to Indian civilisation.
In the oceanic proliferation of Hindu imagery many of the dreams of humanity are revealed.
But there is something so characteristic about the values and culture of the heart among the Indians and the currency of this Christian religious image in Indian Society that gives focus to the cords that bind the heart of India, making it indeed,
a Convent of the Sacred Heart.
Question. What did Gandi teach India about the heart?
Nothing too complicated,
with the halo and suggestion of the hypergeographical and hagiographical references intact.
India is the heart, Gregory David Roberts
My artist friend from Savannah,
Stephanie Usery,
has shown me the actuality of the religious images of Catholic piety,
particulary the images of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
She was interest in the portrait of an Indian man, as the image of the Sacred Heart.
That image I saw all over Southern India, in Goa and Kerala.
It is the image of god as son and mother.
For me it is an essential image that Chirstianity has contributed to Indian civilisation.
In the oceanic proliferation of Hindu imagery many of the dreams of humanity are revealed.
But there is something so characteristic about the values and culture of the heart among the Indians and the currency of this Christian religious image in Indian Society that gives focus to the cords that bind the heart of India, making it indeed,
a Convent of the Sacred Heart.
Question. What did Gandi teach India about the heart?
Savannah, Low Country
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Still rotating.
Got here Saturday after arriving from Delhi Thanksgiving Day.
Family gathering at Mary's and crash Friday.
Done here for dental work.
Went to the Breakfast Club at Tybee with Jooan.
Here the phto she used for evite for my 60th.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
New York, The Big Apple
Totally grooving on being back in town.
Got in Thursday at noon and had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner at mary's with family.
Crashing now, ma non troppo, because I've got to leave in two hours for a flight to Savannah.
Got in Thursday at noon and had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner at mary's with family.
Crashing now, ma non troppo, because I've got to leave in two hours for a flight to Savannah.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Exit Visa issued in Delhi
It was granted this morning.
So my departure on Thursday is all set.
Tomorrow I'm doing a day trip to the camel fair at Pushkar in Rajastan.
The wi fi connection at Barista cafe is already shot so I'm without my pictures to upload.
The weather has gotten cool in Delhi and I'm loving it. There is a sort of a fog.
I visited Brett from GAP Adventures after the police, He was on the beginning of the tour in Kerala and works in Delhi, Brett Lemish.
He sent me to Lodi Gardens where there is the blessiing of green and three mausolea of the Delhi Sultans.
Downtown I went to my travel agent and paid him for changing a flight.
He was determined to seduce me into more spending and his freind was also very enticing,
but a brief reality check of my Kashmiris lead me away froim the sweetened pot.
So now to relax and savour some of my adventures.
Written on the spot after dinner and added to the previous bit, my first cut and paste in a blog, as folloows:
Just hanging out at the Y tonight before tomoorrow's day tripper to Pushkar.
Will read a chapter from Shantamar, my epic I'm coddling for the p[lane ride home.
But tomorrow I'll be twlvw hoiurs in transit.
Got THE SECRET, big deal book here.
Read a chapter from Bartoli's Asia on the conversion of a princess in Goa. Well done and colorful. Maybe an assay at doing the ten pages in English.
So my departure on Thursday is all set.
Tomorrow I'm doing a day trip to the camel fair at Pushkar in Rajastan.
The wi fi connection at Barista cafe is already shot so I'm without my pictures to upload.
The weather has gotten cool in Delhi and I'm loving it. There is a sort of a fog.
I visited Brett from GAP Adventures after the police, He was on the beginning of the tour in Kerala and works in Delhi, Brett Lemish.
He sent me to Lodi Gardens where there is the blessiing of green and three mausolea of the Delhi Sultans.
Downtown I went to my travel agent and paid him for changing a flight.
He was determined to seduce me into more spending and his freind was also very enticing,
but a brief reality check of my Kashmiris lead me away froim the sweetened pot.
So now to relax and savour some of my adventures.
Written on the spot after dinner and added to the previous bit, my first cut and paste in a blog, as folloows:
Just hanging out at the Y tonight before tomoorrow's day tripper to Pushkar.
Will read a chapter from Shantamar, my epic I'm coddling for the p[lane ride home.
But tomorrow I'll be twlvw hoiurs in transit.
Got THE SECRET, big deal book here.
Read a chapter from Bartoli's Asia on the conversion of a princess in Goa. Well done and colorful. Maybe an assay at doing the ten pages in English.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Beach galore
Imagine swimming in the Arabian Sea!
It's warm, This was 15 kms north of Alleppey, Before returning to Fort Kochi yesterday
houseboat and beach
Wonderful vegetarian food.
Great weather.
So much to love.
Some more pix until tomorrow
Fort Kochi
Just back from the two week tour,
Incredible,
After the strenous mountain climbing and biking some easy kayaking on the backwaters of Kerala.
Yesterday the group spent on a houseboat and had dinner and breakfast.
Today we stopped at the most glorious beach.
Tonight the groupp has a farewll dinner.
The staff, especially Binu, the local guide have been super.
It's wonderful to have lots of money [relative to the economy here] to spread around.
I'm in the middle of this epic 900 page novel about Bombay in the 80s called SHANTARAM
truly unbeleivable espadades and so appreciative of the poetry and heartbreak of India, the land of the heart.
Hope the last batch of photos i emailed got through.
I'll post them tomorrw on this site when i have tiome before leaving for the airport for Delhi.
God this trip has been a blessing.
more soon.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Glorious Kerala
My Trip has been wonderful!
There are six of us, Paul from ireland and two German couples and moi.
Since I last wrote we've been to Kochi and biked around to visit exotic places like the spice markets and the synagogue.
Then we bike to a bird santuary and stayed in tents by a gorgeous river.
We did a birder walk and then went kayaking.
Before that we visited an elephant krall and washed the elephants.
Then went climbed a mountain!!!
from 1900 meters to 2700 meters.
I nearly killed me and i was gasping for air, but with the help of Binu, the trusty local guide, I got through the tough stuff.
Tea plantations all around Munnar.
That's where I last wqrote from.
Since then we've been in two tent camps and swimming in Lake Periyar.
Now I'm in Kumily, near a Tiger Preserve.
This morning we went to the preserve and saw elephants in the wild. Pretty awesome.
I do have pix.
going on a boat tour this afternnoon.
I'll insert a few pix and try again later.
There are six of us, Paul from ireland and two German couples and moi.
Since I last wrote we've been to Kochi and biked around to visit exotic places like the spice markets and the synagogue.
Then we bike to a bird santuary and stayed in tents by a gorgeous river.
We did a birder walk and then went kayaking.
Before that we visited an elephant krall and washed the elephants.
Then went climbed a mountain!!!
from 1900 meters to 2700 meters.
I nearly killed me and i was gasping for air, but with the help of Binu, the trusty local guide, I got through the tough stuff.
Tea plantations all around Munnar.
That's where I last wqrote from.
Since then we've been in two tent camps and swimming in Lake Periyar.
Now I'm in Kumily, near a Tiger Preserve.
This morning we went to the preserve and saw elephants in the wild. Pretty awesome.
I do have pix.
going on a boat tour this afternnoon.
I'll insert a few pix and try again later.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Kochi and Kerala
Got here last night. Small group on the bike tour, 5 Germans [including the tour leader], and Irishman and me.
We saw the Cochin Synagogue and some old Churches today. Then the Dutch Palace and the Spice market.
The people of Portugese descent here are called Anglo-Indians, go figure!
Tomorrow we leave Kochi and don't return until Nov. 16 on our way around Kerala, "God's own country".
Cheers
We saw the Cochin Synagogue and some old Churches today. Then the Dutch Palace and the Spice market.
The people of Portugese descent here are called Anglo-Indians, go figure!
Tomorrow we leave Kochi and don't return until Nov. 16 on our way around Kerala, "God's own country".
Cheers
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Going for Goa
Having a blast.
But unable to send pix. maybe tomorrow.
Yesterday I scooted 100kms to Rachol, an amazing Jesuit seminary built in 1610.
Unbelievalbe grand in the middle of the country.
Met Catherine's friend Krisitna di Nola, Finnish, once married to Fabrizio in Rome.
She has taken me to two great restaurahnts for fish and cheese spinach. Wonderful food.
We go out again tonight in Calingute. This place is hopping.
I leave for Kochi tomorrow.
Never a dull moment and I think I'm still in physical shape to do the two week bicycle tour that starts in Kochi monday. That has been my prayer.
Tomorrow i should have Wi Fi at the airport for a few hours and can send the awesome pix I have been taking.
Viva Sony Cybershot
But unable to send pix. maybe tomorrow.
Yesterday I scooted 100kms to Rachol, an amazing Jesuit seminary built in 1610.
Unbelievalbe grand in the middle of the country.
Met Catherine's friend Krisitna di Nola, Finnish, once married to Fabrizio in Rome.
She has taken me to two great restaurahnts for fish and cheese spinach. Wonderful food.
We go out again tonight in Calingute. This place is hopping.
I leave for Kochi tomorrow.
Never a dull moment and I think I'm still in physical shape to do the two week bicycle tour that starts in Kochi monday. That has been my prayer.
Tomorrow i should have Wi Fi at the airport for a few hours and can send the awesome pix I have been taking.
Viva Sony Cybershot
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Going for Goa
The Hotel Bougasinvilla {Grandpa's Place] is great.
I've been in the pool three times today.
Rented a scooter and drove to Calingute and down the coast.
Tomoorrow I plan a larger trip to South Goa to visit Rachol Seminary and see if I can find the grave of Blessed Ridolfo Acquaviva who was at the court of Akbar before returning to martyrdom in Goa in 1579.
Hope the 50 sunblock works. My blisters around the nose seem to be in remission.
Had a great day tooling around. Kool in both sesnes.
Cheers- Gregory of Goa
I've been in the pool three times today.
Rented a scooter and drove to Calingute and down the coast.
Tomoorrow I plan a larger trip to South Goa to visit Rachol Seminary and see if I can find the grave of Blessed Ridolfo Acquaviva who was at the court of Akbar before returning to martyrdom in Goa in 1579.
Hope the 50 sunblock works. My blisters around the nose seem to be in remission.
Had a great day tooling around. Kool in both sesnes.
Cheers- Gregory of Goa
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Hotel Bougainvilla, Anjuna Beach, North Goa
In the commercial I walked down Bourbon Street past a Chevy Impala with a cute guy from Barcelona who had a nice conversation with me in spanish between takes.
I made it to the beach at a hippie place called Anjuna. Last night after the Wednesday market there was a big party at the Sunset Cafe where I met Michael and Patricia. They were really fun and there for their friend Prana, a really good singer. It was quite a scene and at a certain point i was prancing to the musis with my NYC tee shirt upfront. The Hotel Bougainvilla has a pool and lovely garden grounds. This morning i rented a scooter and am styling around. Sun screen was my first purhase. Last night I went for a swim after the most delicious dinner of fish in curry sauce. And again this morning at 8:30 before breakfast.
The hotel gets more expensive after the first day, but it is habit forming and I like it enough to settle here until I leave for Kochi on Sunday.
Photos are coming the batch from yesterday is really good. Later.G
I made it to the beach at a hippie place called Anjuna. Last night after the Wednesday market there was a big party at the Sunset Cafe where I met Michael and Patricia. They were really fun and there for their friend Prana, a really good singer. It was quite a scene and at a certain point i was prancing to the musis with my NYC tee shirt upfront. The Hotel Bougainvilla has a pool and lovely garden grounds. This morning i rented a scooter and am styling around. Sun screen was my first purhase. Last night I went for a swim after the most delicious dinner of fish in curry sauce. And again this morning at 8:30 before breakfast.
The hotel gets more expensive after the first day, but it is habit forming and I like it enough to settle here until I leave for Kochi on Sunday.
Photos are coming the batch from yesterday is really good. Later.G
River Cruise
Here's a new one. I'll try to upload a disco video.
30n seconds is too much, 11ms.
I'll try with a shorter one.
30n seconds is too much, 11ms.
I'll try with a shorter one.
Ad majorem Dei gloriam
That the Jesuits were educators is well known, but they also rank as the top exponenents of Renaissance architecture around the world. Bom Gesu is an astounding accoumplishment as is the impressive Professed House attached. There is other great church building in Old Goa. Lovely Venite restaurant and other parts local.
Panjim Inn
Tremendous colonial atmosphere, wonderful, genuinely caring staff, Colonial Goa is a tour miracle waiting to happen. Right now you can only imagine what it could be wikth the Inn, the wonderful Venite restauarant and the churches of Old Goa, especially Bom Gesu and St. Francis Xavier a twenty minute bus ride away.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Goa, The Rome of the East
Hello from Mapusa, capital of Bardez, North Goa.
I came here because they told me there was a Wi Fi spot here at Cafe Coffee Day in Panaji, the modern city of Goa. Well, these were the people of the cafe in Panaji and guess what? There isn't even a Coffee Day here. So, despite what I can call valiant efforts no photo uploads for this part of the trip, unless I find another place here.
My arrival at the Panjim Inn was magical. I have a room in an old colonial mansion with gorgeous rosewood furniture, a four poster bed that my sister Joan would adore, the best A/C, a fridge stocked with soda and beer, a safety lock box, spotlessly clean, just inside from the veranda where there is an excellent restaurant where I had a snapper that night and chatted with a charming food and beverage youth who looks just like Dave Chappel. Wait til you see the pix. This place was a heavenly arrival because I'm sort of a wreck with everything happening so quickly and the intense, not to say infernal, tropical heat. SO good to be out of the smog of Mumbai, but it bit me in the nose, where I am going through a vicious outbreak of herpes. This too will pass and I have a cream for it too.
Sunday there was a quick bus to Old Goa where St. Francis Xavier is buried in Bom Gesu Basilica. I got there and attended two masses in the local language of Konkani and in between brought my new passport to the relic venerated in front of the ornate baroque chapel where the Apostle of the Indies is lying incorruptibly after centuries. It reminds me of when i was a boy and loved church so much I would hang around during and between and after masses. This was when I was about 5 and the church was just down the block from 106 West 90th Street. O the Beauty of Holiness cherished in the house of the Lord by the psalmist and his followers. The Duke of Tuscany had the shrine built in 1698 in exchange for the pillow under the saint's head. The building of the church dates from 1594 as does the Professed house next door. Totally awesome Renaissance proportions and the finest materials with a Christian art from the hands of Hindu craftsmen. The place was packed with worshippers and, like St. Ignatius, I had the consolation of copious tears, to see such devotion. I bought the sweetest little statue of the saint in his rapture meditating on the cross. His fervor is still felt in the dedication of the people here to his cult. They flocked to the shrine after mass, bringing candles and flowers and reverantly kissing the barefeet of his statue. St. Francis went barefoot as he baptized over 30,000 converts here. The Cathoics here are still going strong and still look on him as their great patron saint. This was a real consummation for me after all the years of reading Bartoli and studying the history of the Jesuit missions. I was totally wiped out, so I put off seeing any of the many other religious sites of Old Goa for antoher day and went to my wonderful room for a respite. Last night I had an evening walk around the colonial quarter Fontainhas, took hundred of photos of the great cloroured houses and took a boat ride on the Mandovi River, packed with vacationing Indians who did a disco trip the whole time between the presentation of local dancers. I wonder if the 30 second film of the gents buggieing can be put on the blog. It's too marvelous. Last night I had chicken Muglai and port wine, as that's what they have. Today I went to the Foreign Registry Office of the Police to see about my exit visa. I'll have to do it either in Kochi or Delhi, closer to the date of my departure. Then I took another bus to Parvolim where there is a Xavier Research Institute. There I got an article about Bartoli's writing on India and looked through the amazing three tomes of Fr. Wicki's Documenta Indica, part of the Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, volumes 124-126. He was librarian at the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome where i spent 1979 reading the ten thousand gorgeuos pages of Bartoli's History of the Society of Jesus. The tomes have fascinating letters from the Provincial Valignano and other illustrious figures about the building of the Professed House and the missions to Japan and the relations with Mar Abraham. He was the bishop of the St. Thomas Christians who were there since the arrival of the apostle buired in Mylapore when the Portughese arrived in 1510. They were not thrilled to be dragged from their Nestorian ways into orthodoxy and Roman Cathoicism at the insistance of the reverend and unremitting fathers of the Society. Good thing I looked at the article I had copied. The librarian took the title page and went backwards, so I got a whole other article. She did the pages I needed though. She had told me that there was too much work to do them before two hours. Two hours later she arrivesd with her shopping bags and runs off the article backwards! The place has a lovely museum of religious art with many beautiful wood carved saint reliquaries. There was even a portrait of St. Gregory with triple tiara and inspiring dove. No photography allowed. In India reaity is multi-layered. The first level is NO. The second level is confusion. There third level is maybe. Often you can get what you want if you are prepared to penetrate the shifting levels of mystery and that takes time and patience. In the vast majority of cases the people have no choice but to wait through the cloud of unknowing. So far for me, so good.
Another aspect of India is the size of the cabs. There are suited to people half the average size and girth of those in the States, so you spend the considerable amount of time in cabs slouching back or leaning forward in a sort of Gulliver's Travels experience.
I'll be here until next Sunday when I'll go to the English Mass at Bom Gesu at 10:15, now that I know there is one. In a few days I'll transfer to the beach. Kristina di Nola, [Finnish], a friend of Catherine's from Rome is renting a house in Calingote. Near enough to where the hippies play at Anjuna Beach.
Okay, you all. Enjoy the autumn weather while I swelter. My hair is gradually lightening. It's sort of a Death In Venice experience, but, it's definitely all good.
Namasthe
I came here because they told me there was a Wi Fi spot here at Cafe Coffee Day in Panaji, the modern city of Goa. Well, these were the people of the cafe in Panaji and guess what? There isn't even a Coffee Day here. So, despite what I can call valiant efforts no photo uploads for this part of the trip, unless I find another place here.
My arrival at the Panjim Inn was magical. I have a room in an old colonial mansion with gorgeous rosewood furniture, a four poster bed that my sister Joan would adore, the best A/C, a fridge stocked with soda and beer, a safety lock box, spotlessly clean, just inside from the veranda where there is an excellent restaurant where I had a snapper that night and chatted with a charming food and beverage youth who looks just like Dave Chappel. Wait til you see the pix. This place was a heavenly arrival because I'm sort of a wreck with everything happening so quickly and the intense, not to say infernal, tropical heat. SO good to be out of the smog of Mumbai, but it bit me in the nose, where I am going through a vicious outbreak of herpes. This too will pass and I have a cream for it too.
Sunday there was a quick bus to Old Goa where St. Francis Xavier is buried in Bom Gesu Basilica. I got there and attended two masses in the local language of Konkani and in between brought my new passport to the relic venerated in front of the ornate baroque chapel where the Apostle of the Indies is lying incorruptibly after centuries. It reminds me of when i was a boy and loved church so much I would hang around during and between and after masses. This was when I was about 5 and the church was just down the block from 106 West 90th Street. O the Beauty of Holiness cherished in the house of the Lord by the psalmist and his followers. The Duke of Tuscany had the shrine built in 1698 in exchange for the pillow under the saint's head. The building of the church dates from 1594 as does the Professed house next door. Totally awesome Renaissance proportions and the finest materials with a Christian art from the hands of Hindu craftsmen. The place was packed with worshippers and, like St. Ignatius, I had the consolation of copious tears, to see such devotion. I bought the sweetest little statue of the saint in his rapture meditating on the cross. His fervor is still felt in the dedication of the people here to his cult. They flocked to the shrine after mass, bringing candles and flowers and reverantly kissing the barefeet of his statue. St. Francis went barefoot as he baptized over 30,000 converts here. The Cathoics here are still going strong and still look on him as their great patron saint. This was a real consummation for me after all the years of reading Bartoli and studying the history of the Jesuit missions. I was totally wiped out, so I put off seeing any of the many other religious sites of Old Goa for antoher day and went to my wonderful room for a respite. Last night I had an evening walk around the colonial quarter Fontainhas, took hundred of photos of the great cloroured houses and took a boat ride on the Mandovi River, packed with vacationing Indians who did a disco trip the whole time between the presentation of local dancers. I wonder if the 30 second film of the gents buggieing can be put on the blog. It's too marvelous. Last night I had chicken Muglai and port wine, as that's what they have. Today I went to the Foreign Registry Office of the Police to see about my exit visa. I'll have to do it either in Kochi or Delhi, closer to the date of my departure. Then I took another bus to Parvolim where there is a Xavier Research Institute. There I got an article about Bartoli's writing on India and looked through the amazing three tomes of Fr. Wicki's Documenta Indica, part of the Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, volumes 124-126. He was librarian at the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome where i spent 1979 reading the ten thousand gorgeuos pages of Bartoli's History of the Society of Jesus. The tomes have fascinating letters from the Provincial Valignano and other illustrious figures about the building of the Professed House and the missions to Japan and the relations with Mar Abraham. He was the bishop of the St. Thomas Christians who were there since the arrival of the apostle buired in Mylapore when the Portughese arrived in 1510. They were not thrilled to be dragged from their Nestorian ways into orthodoxy and Roman Cathoicism at the insistance of the reverend and unremitting fathers of the Society. Good thing I looked at the article I had copied. The librarian took the title page and went backwards, so I got a whole other article. She did the pages I needed though. She had told me that there was too much work to do them before two hours. Two hours later she arrivesd with her shopping bags and runs off the article backwards! The place has a lovely museum of religious art with many beautiful wood carved saint reliquaries. There was even a portrait of St. Gregory with triple tiara and inspiring dove. No photography allowed. In India reaity is multi-layered. The first level is NO. The second level is confusion. There third level is maybe. Often you can get what you want if you are prepared to penetrate the shifting levels of mystery and that takes time and patience. In the vast majority of cases the people have no choice but to wait through the cloud of unknowing. So far for me, so good.
Another aspect of India is the size of the cabs. There are suited to people half the average size and girth of those in the States, so you spend the considerable amount of time in cabs slouching back or leaning forward in a sort of Gulliver's Travels experience.
I'll be here until next Sunday when I'll go to the English Mass at Bom Gesu at 10:15, now that I know there is one. In a few days I'll transfer to the beach. Kristina di Nola, [Finnish], a friend of Catherine's from Rome is renting a house in Calingote. Near enough to where the hippies play at Anjuna Beach.
Okay, you all. Enjoy the autumn weather while I swelter. My hair is gradually lightening. It's sort of a Death In Venice experience, but, it's definitely all good.
Namasthe
Friday, October 26, 2007
Saityawarya Ray and Amhishek Bachchan
He is practically on every billboard in the country. We would call it overexposure but the guy is definitely cashing in. His father, Amitabh Bachcahn is the godfather of bollywood and was titles the actor of the millenium. This guy's major claim to fame besides his dad is his gorgeous wife, Aishwarya Ray, another major star, She played Elizabeth Bennett in BRIDE AND PREJUDICE, the film I loved to watch to psyche me for the trip. I tried to be discreet so I didn't get in their faces with the photos, but I was three feet away. Talk about a dream I never knew I had come true!
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