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Joyce Goldstein - An artist, chef, cook, sage thinker, brilliant mind, savvy visionary and fantastic friend

San Francicso has a very special place in my heart. It is a town, a village of the most cosmopolitan energy to me. It is also as beautiful as any city I have ever been to. Then there is the underbelly of SF which is gritty and dark - that adds to the character of the city. It has Joyce Goldstein, the greatest gift of this city. What an honor to be able to call her a dear friend.

Buffet wants to be taxed. Why are we NOT DEMANDING THAT HAPPEN?

Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - Warren Buffet (New York Times, OP-ED, Published August 14, 2011)

OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

How will Washington county fair top this one?

Fried food and retail politics at the Iowa State Fair - Toby Harnden

"...........Driving away on a golf cart with her husband Marcus beside her, Mrs Bachmann stopped to buy a foot-long corn dog – a chicken and beef sausage in deep-fried batter. After applying mustard and allowing Mr Bachmann to take the first bite, she chomped into it with gusto."

Friday, August 15, 1947 - Birth of India's Freedom (Nation Wakes to New Life)

 

In this post you shall find the speech by Jawaharlal Nehru delivered to Indians around midnight on the 15th of August in 1947.

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

Hebron, New York & New Delhi, India

As I stayed awake all night in New Delhi, I enjoyed reflecting on my life back home in the US.