A Time Patrol movie. Previously on Time Patrol: Christmas 1966. San Francisco. Highway. Los Angeles. Highway. Los Angeles. Highway. San Diego. One warship. Two hours in SD. Parents take control of the trip. Yosemite. Wonderful. And now to Disneyland. The one and only. No Disneyworld then. “Mortimer Mouse” welcomed us with his marching band. The…
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. (Tao Te Ching 11) * We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. (Tao Te Ching 11) * We hammer wood for a house, but it is the…
A Time Patrol movie “Salaam, Memsahib Renée, Salaam. Is that your little dog? What’s its name?” “Salaam Shah. Her name is Yashmak.” “A pretty name Memsahib. Come! Come! Let’s go to the Boree Bazaar. Jaldi, jaldi.” “Maybe we take the Bara Sahib Cyril’s car? A new French car. Very different from the English cars. Mohamed…
Marseille, June 1962 “Mommy? Why is the Lady crying?” “It’s nothing, Darling. Probably a speck of dust in her eye.” * We were stranded in Marseille. Lived in West Africa at that time. Conakry, in former French Guinea, now independent. My father was the Air France manager there. We’d flown to France for the summer…
A Time Patrol movie We lived in Cambodia from 1956 to 1957. My father worked for Prince Norodom Sihanouk, running the brand new national airline, Royal Air Cambodge. During that time, he and my mother made numerous trips across South-east Asia, looking for business opportunities. One of those trips was to Bankgok, in 1956. My…
Rue des Saint-Pères, Paris. The Seine is on the left. Saint-Germain-des-prés to the right. “L’homme en blanc”, the “Man in White” is the trademark of Jérôme Mesnager (b.1961) a French street artist. He painted many of those in the neighbourhood, with the shop-owners’ agreement of course, in a tribute to Serge Gainsbourg a French singer…
“An African Childhood” Movie Previously on An African Childhood. We lived in East Africa from 1967 to 1971. One of the greatest kicks was to drive out in the Bush, on “safari”, a Swahili word that just means “trip”. We’d go to a National Park, and look for adventure and animals. On the previous movie,…
(The Pólemos* Papers) “Bill? Hi, this is Jack.” “Hi, Jack, I knew it was you, who else would call me on the secure line? What’s up? How are things going?” “Well, Bill, not too good, as you know. The Crook is way high. And I’m not sure I can convince the Board and enough shareholders.”…
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