La Dolce Vita :-)

Little Auden in Oak Island, North Carolina – August 2015

“Thank you!” (from little Auden)

July 25 2015

His big smile is shared with all his kind, generous, and committed friends from many parts of the world, among them: Anne (KY), Donna (MA), Sophie, Anne, Kristallina, Barbara, Stefanie and Martin, Lena, Laura, Enrico, Pat, Amanda, Anne (Ukraine), Pierrette, Nia, Herve’, Estelea and the wonderful and always smiling “Filipino fan club”, Ana (FL), Georges, Cathie, Gallivanta, Susanne, Ullis, Cindy, Replicant Core, PuzzleBlume, Henk, Irene, The Compassionate Garden, Kalosf, and several others I am certainly forgetting to mention (I am sorry!) Special thanks also to our families in Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S. 🙂

… because it’s Friday II

San Diego Botanic Garden

San Diego Botanic Garden

Auden, our little star – Dedicated to four beautiful stars (Estelea, Marcel, Maëlle, and Léandre) 🙂

The new firefighter of Rancho Santa Fe (and two other notes)

July 4th 2015

And:

• Kudos for Team USA who brilliantly won this afternoon the World Soccer Women Title

• “Still Mine”, with James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold is a good Canadian film released in  2013 (available on Netflix)

Auden’s summer book … and mine

My daughter-in-law will have to wear her clown hat when she is going to read this book to little Auden. She does a wonderful job reading to him on a daily basis.

Our Souls at Night – “A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. …” My Promised Land: “An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today.”  

Oksanen’s writing is all the more powerful because she tells her story through the eyes of damaged and self-deceiving people: a batty, paranoid old women and an ill-educated, traumatised girl. The reader is left to fill the in gaps, with KGB documents at the end of the book giving the missing clues. ” From The Economist.

“He has been hailed as a contemporary Marcel Proust, but Modiano’s investigations into the moral history of the occupation make him a pure original.” From The Guardian.

What are your summer (winter) books?

Funday …

We have to have at least one Fun-day every week, right? 🙂

Some people prefer to spend time watching Nature – I

How about this? II

Are you surprised that I am in that group? LOL – III

Other people prefer to play soccer.

Or football. (Or even roller blades)

Nah! They prefer to ride bikes.

I like to see colors I

I like to see colors II – July Fourth, as you know, is Independence Day in the US.

… and I love to be with Auden! 🙂

We all love to be with Auden II

On a personal note, hope that this weekend has been good to Ivan, Poppy, and to you! Take care! 🙂

… see who went to the beach this afternoon … :-)

Little Auden – June 7th 2015

… and see his trunks … 🙂 – Solana Beach California

little Auden in Toronto

Waiting for a cab –  Pearson Airport (Mississauga, Ontario) – May 2015 (photo by Ze)

… because it is Friday

Summer Picnic – Alex Katz – 1975

Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil – Photo by Thais Lapa

Italian dinner in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Photo by Thais Lapa)

our little Auden

and one of his many portraits

10:30 am – Alex Katz – 2007

… and Shabbat Shalom! You all have a great weekend!

from Auden

Auden at 4 months