Having decided to ask Hypnotism Training Institute of Alberta graduates to kindly forward me their favourite cooking recipes to post on my blog, I woke up with the following thoughts:
Some time ago, a cartoon in a French magazine showed a young mother, hands on her hips, telling her young boy still in a highchair: Continue reading
After having published Bonanna nayo Mundele, I received the following e-mail from Patrick who I pushed in a stroller a little over 50 years ago while living in Léopoldville (Léo for short) now Kinshasa, in what used to be Belgian Congo
“I’ll admit I have to rely on my elders for anything related to lingala. My memories are limited to what would have attracted a 2-3 yr old boy in Léo – Rick bringing a croc in the back of his pick-up, the toys I got for Saint Nicolas, etc.”
Crocodiles!
Cristofano Allori, Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1613)
Over the ages, an interest developed about women who saved their city or country by cutting the head of a tyrant ruler while asleep or overcome with drink and passed out. Continue reading