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This morning I woke up dreaming of a garden. The dream unfolded calm and fluid. Shafts of milky sunlight illuminated flowers blowing in a light breeze, and in the dream, I knew it was the end of summer. I felt every petal and blade of grass intimately, the sounds of life around me, heightened. Behind me, stood my grandmother, her head bent modestly, an errant lock of hair caressing her right eye as always, the faint smell of lilacs and egg white on her warm, white skin. In the dream, she explains to me how the red poppies grow and then, she points to the yarrow growing around the garden and that it is known for it's healing qualities. Her words are rhythm only, like listening to a babbling brook of water gliding over stone. I understand everything and nothing at the same time.<br /><br />Why is my beloved grandmother here, on this day of remembrance? On this day when I am in a space where I find myself wishing to move on. Yes, I will gladly say a prayer for the dead - but then let me go, let's all go - further than that one place of sorrow and shock.</div>
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How?<br /><br />Grandmother was a witchy woman (she is crossing herself now, appalled that I would use this word to describe her) and she knew her herbs, the folklore wisdom of old Bosnia, deep inside her, even though she would not have admitted to it. Bosnia. The place, like other places, carries the shame of war memories whenever mentioned aloud. My Baka, felt this shame, more than most.<br /><br />I go deeper into my dream, to look for meaning. I want to know why she is whispering to me in my sleep about Poppies, which I don't remember her liking, indeed I don't remember any growing in the fields surrounding us when I was a little girl. The Yarrow, though, grew abundantly and she never failed to point it out it better qualities.<br /><br />Achillea Millefolium - the Yarrow. She would bring back bunches of it and spread it on newspaper on the kitchen table to dry along with other roots and stalks from her daily walks. From the dried pieces, she would make tinctures and pomades, wraps and powders. Tiny little pieces of white paper with abbreviated names indicating prescription. These were written in <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/refugees_01.shtml">German</a> but with Serbo Croatian accents over 'sh' and 'ch' sounds, as she was only patient with some things and not with others - so never bothered to perfect her Deutsch.<br /><br />When we had bruises, stomach ache, head pain, cuts and fever she would rub and knead and administer with damp cloths or tiny droppers her magic potions and heal us whole. And so, a whole brood of us grew up with witchy blessings on our heads, crosses around our necks and herb tinctures mixed in our blood.<br /><br />Here is a story.....As a young man, Achilles the famous soldier/hero of ancient times was schooled by<a href="http://www.sacredearth.com/ethnobotany/plantprofiles/yarrow.php" style="color: #015782; text-decoration: none;"> Chiron</a> the Centaur. Chiron was versed in medicine and the healing arts and supposedly passed his powerful knowledge on to Achilles. In his turn, Achilles the leader/prince taught his troops to use yarrow flower to stop the bleeding and hemorrhaging of wounds received during their epic battles. Hence the Latin name for Yarrow: Achillea.<br /><br />Soldiers, Hero's, War, Magic, Wisdom. There. I see a pattern emerging from the dream....<br /><br />Poppies too, I discovered, live deep in our psyche as a symbol of <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/plantmyths" style="color: #015782; text-decoration: none;">sacrifice and memory</a>. Somewhere there is a poem about fallen soldiers and poppies that spring up around their unmarked graves. In Greek and Roman myths, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy" style="color: #015782; text-decoration: none;">poppies</a> were used as offerings to the dead and by the Christians as a symbol of resurrection.<br /><br />Red, Christ, Blood, Dreams and Memories, Acceptance, maybe <br /><br />I'm not sure what the dream aims to show me. Today is a ritual of remembering for many, though it is not about mourning soldiers or wise men or herbologist Centaurs, I know. </div>
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It is about remembering ordinary citizens on that day, the <a href="http://www.911memorial.org/">11th of September</a>, going about their business of life one minute and then dead the next.</div>
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Ordinary people going about their business of life one minute and then dead the next.<br /><br />What were the words she said that would unlock the meaning of the dream, unlock the meaning of the jumble that is life and death, war and peace, forgiveness and acceptance? I will never know. </div>
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Every year some women friends and I celebrate the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Goddess-Within-Guide-Eternal-Womens/dp/0449902870">Goddess</a> with in us on the 15th of August. It is the Catholic holiday set to commemorate <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari%C3%A4_Aufnahme_in_den_Himmel">the Assumption of Mary</a>, the Mother of Jesus as she is whisked into the Heavens. I pick this day not because I am particularly religious but because it reminds me of my childhood. When I was a child,<a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Maria+Himmelfahrt+prozession+in+Benediktbeuern&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=X&rlz=1R1GGGL_en___US357&biw=1350&bih=539&tbm=isch&tbnid=Aio6NDdvFFoaKM:&imgrefurl=http://www.toelzer-land.de/gelebtes-brauchtum-1&docid=ns3074A089UYwM&w=500&h=250&ei=tnFKTqT1KYKOsQK3jLmkCA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=914&vpy=220&dur=2322&hovh=159&hovw=318&tx=135&ty=82&page=2&tbnh=72&tbnw=143&start=21&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:23,s:21"> living in Bavaria,</a> in southern Germany, Maria Himmelfahrt was a really big deal. As I have written in other posts on similar topic, on that day of celebration, the whole town comes out, children in traditional costume and crowns of flowers on their heads. The statue of Mary is carried through town from the Abbey to the main church. It is a beautiful spectacle and I always see it first and foremost within that childlike vision.<br />
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I especially always loved the way kids adorned their favorite cows with wreathes of herbs and flowers accenting their beautiful long eyelashes and luminescent big pink noses, gentle nature.<br />
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In the last 10 years it's been a way to connect with women friends that are dear, share stories - some of them about being women, some of them childhood memories, others are<a href="http://www.paleothea.com/"> myths </a>we know or half know and want to explore.<br />
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Our <a href="http://www.feeddenver.com/">Lisa</a> is the story teller and fascinates us with her memory of women stories, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarissa_Pinkola_Est%C3%A9s">both learned and intuitive</a>.<br />
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We read <a href="http://stofildzana100days2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/100-fildzana-21.html">our coffee cups a</a>nd have wine, let our daughters join us in the lighting of the candles and writing of secret messages on little scraps of delicate paper that we then send up in smoke to the sky, hoping that our daughters too will find some fascination in the mysteries and bounty associated with the Mother.<br />
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<br />SilvanaMondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04938050200185582564noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371472205544491880.post-69702596077742129192013-07-09T18:04:00.001-06:002013-08-13T16:50:31.447-06:00Once, in Zepa<br />
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"> "...when Srebrenica fell, that automatically meant that Zepa would fall,” <a href="http://iwpr.net/report-news/fall-zepa-recalled">Palic </a>said.</span><br />
<span style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"> Death of a community, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1995/jul/27/warcrimes">the fall of Zepa</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> The Serb army had just finished up their most recent killing spree in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre">Srebrenica</a>, as thousands - men, women, children, families and elders were fleeing for their lives from one village to another hoping to spare themselves the same fate. In a small village outside of the UN protected 'safe haven' of Srebrenica, some villagers</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> took the road that led into the town </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDepa" style="background-color: white; color: #015782; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Žepa. </span></span> </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">There they were quickly</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> repelled by the oncoming column of Serb soldiers entering the village from the other side. At the entrance to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Žepa,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> in <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2013/06/05/surprisingly-forgotten-zepa-hangs/ckWoCbFipXf9GsMvSgQb2L/story.html" style="color: #015782; text-decoration: none;">obvious danger </a>the refugees fled to the hills, into the forest, to save themselves. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Caught a short time after, the women and children were put on buses and dropped off at the front lines. The survivors found their way to refugee camps in Bosnian held territory at Zenica. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The men and older boys were taken prisoner and brought to concentration camps in Serbia. July 25th, 1995.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Some survived and were liberated from those camps by the Red Cross, who then gave them safe passage as refugees to host countries around the world. In Denver, eight months after Dayton was signed, I was visiting one of the refugee ghetto's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">on Beeler</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Street</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> and bore witness to stories of horror and pain. The stories, whispered in long sentences between terse puffs of cigarettes in broken English and halting Bosnian affected me deeply and I would never forget them. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In remembrance of friends and family now gone, and with respect to the Ramic family along with thousands of other people, like my parents and also my dearest grandparents who repatriated to countries, not their own and lived to bear witness. Lived to eventually reemerge victorious, if broken-hearted and create a new life for themselves and their families. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Never Forget. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Peace. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"As in Srebrenica, Serb nationalist leaders offered to expel Muslim women and children from Zepa, but detain the men as "prisoners."Serb forces have blocked all attempts for aid workers to visit the Srebrenica men supposedly taken <a href="http://www.members.tripod.com/~UnconqueredBosnia/ZepaFalls.html" style="color: #015782; text-decoration: none;">prisoner. </a></i><br />
<i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><i>Serbs overran Zepa a few days after an emergency international conference called after Srebrenica was seized. The conference issued a warning to Serb nationalists</i> <i>that they faced serious consequences if they attacked the third "protected zone" of Gorazde. However, no mention was made of Zepa; the international community decided to write off the town -- and its 16,000 inhabitants -- as lost,despite a UN Security Council vote pledging to protect it. Gorazde is the sole remaining Bosnian enclave between the Serbian border and <a href="http://www.members.tripod.com/~UnconqueredBosnia/ZepaFalls.html" style="color: #015782; text-decoration: none;">Sarajevo</a>."</i></span><br />
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I have a friend. She is like my sister. Our grandfather's were very good friends too. They were born in the beginning of the 1900's in wild Bosnia, under Austro-Hungarian rulers and both their fathers owned large tracts of land. They were in business with the mills. Often, they worked together in the wild forests. They had different backgrounds but respected each other and by extension, each other's culture. Their friendship endured the two Great Wars and more. Hadji made his pilgrimage to Mecca, hence his name, and my grandfather, who was <a href="http://www.ihr.org/other/sunic062002.html">forced</a> to leave Bosnia during the big war, ended up with his family, in Germany.<br />
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The summer of 1990 I went on my first visit to Bosnia with my grandparents. They came down every two years to take the baths, at the hot springs somewhere in Croatia and then went to their ancestral home in Central Bosnia. On this trip, I met Hadji, my grandfather's childhood friend, about whom I had often heard stories throughout the years. I also met his granddaughter, Suada and as it was, we got on right away. She was the youngest of five sisters and had a fashionable 90's hairstyle though like her older sisters, wore the traditional <a href="http://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimije">dimije </a>of the countryside. <br />
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She and her sisters were shy with the exception of the oldest one, who had the most experience. Smoking cigarettes like they were going out of style, she laughed and told jokes and pressed me on every subject; married or not, kids, school - the whole litany. The sisters had clear, happy eyes the color of sky light. I could see they treated my grandparents like royalty throughout our visit. Given the history the two old men shared and the sacredness of Bosnian hospitality this was natural. Everything became even more special because it was also the first day of <a href="http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080921213849AAljR71">Bajram</a>.<br />
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My grandparents and I left for Germany the next day and Suada and I promised to keep up our friendship. Unfortunately, not soon after that summer, in the spring of '92, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War">dark period</a> came to Bosnia and we lost all communication. There was terrible fighting, all around my family's town too. We had no news for almost a year. <br />
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The rest are stories everyone knows. Soon it will be the anniversary of the concentrated horror that happened all over Bosnia; Omarska, Srebrenica, too many others.<br />
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No one knew anything about the old man or the grand daughters. Relatives living in Bosnia said things were different 'than before'. It was fierce for those who lived through the war. Regardless of which 'side', the lines were drawn. I lived in America, it seemed far away.<br />
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After <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Agreement">Dayton</a>, I asked about visiting our friends.<br />
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I went on a trip to see my grandparents in Munich and slipped into Bosnia via Zagreb. It was the longest and saddest bus ride of my life. I was going to Sarajevo, hoping to film and get some documentation for my book. I would visit the family in Central Bosnia on the way there. It was also important to me, to find out what happened to my friend Suada, Hadji's granddaughter. When I asked about her, everyone had tense, worried faces, their heads shaking.<br />
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<i>Don't look for her. We haven't seen them in years. No one knows if they are alive. You don't know if there are mines on the road. You won't be welcomed. We had a war. It's too early. You don't understand.</i><br />
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I understood. The fighting and upheaval that had just ended a short two years before was still a terrifying ball of pain in everyone's stomach.<br />
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When I arrived at the bus station in Vitez, my gentle cousin told me to ask the <a href="http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/past/unprofor.htm">unprofor</a> soldiers or the police for information if I wanted to know. I naturally shrugged this suggestion off.<br />
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Arriving at the front gate of my grandmother's old house, from the road that leads into <a href="http://www.sarajevo.ba/en/">Sarajevo</a>, I was greeted by my Bosnian family. The neighbors were hanging out of their windows, peering from behind doors. Off to the side by the shed there were three people delivering wood ordered for the coming winter. <br />
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After a decent time interval I began asking about Suada, trying to find someone who would give me information.<br />
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To no avail. I realized I was being annoying. And rude. We sat drinking coffee and rakija, exchanging pleasantries. I asked again.<br />
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Imperceptibly, a space opened and though nothing out of the ordinary happened to indicate a change, suddenly, she was right there.<br />
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My friend who I had been looking for all those years, was part of the crew delivering wood to my Auntie's house.<br />
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Quiet, as always, going about her business with the wood, Suada spoke up only after she heard me asking about her over and over again. As we hugged and laughed, time was suspended. It was magical and surreal, not to be questioned.<br />
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We had called each other through the unseen and been brought together again.<br />
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It could not have been any other moment but that one.<br />
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Sudbina, as my grandfather would say. Kismet.<br />
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August, 1997. Central Bosnia Hercegovina<br />
originally posted 1/16/13SilvanaMondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04938050200185582564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371472205544491880.post-40803494514495806002013-07-02T12:26:00.000-06:002013-08-13T16:51:36.097-06:00Didn't I see you in Sarajevo?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">A big protest was called for in Sarajevo, Bosnia on the 1st day of July. I got this information from Twitter and Facebook. Even after three weeks, most mainstream media hadn't picked up the story yet and best bets to find information were on Twitter. The protest seems to have developed organically from an original gathering on June 5th regarding a lag in the issuance of identification, or pin numbers. Temporarily, this group of baby-carriage toting mothers (and eventually other hundreds of ordinary but supportive citizens)<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-protest-lack-bosnia-law-184616960.html" style="color: #333332;" target="_blank">surrounded</a> the Parliament, complete with Parliamentarians inside and pushed their weight around a bit. They were angry, frustrated, fed up. Justifiably so, considering that Bosnians are treated like shit, very obviously taking the back seat to the Croatians, the Serbs and often, even the hate mongering rattlers in the neighboring canton, Republika Srpska who are routinely invited to the party, as if nothing had gone on, those long, 22 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Eyeing a great opportunity is not enough, action has to be taken. So it was that someone, somewhere convened under the #JMBG hashtag, promoted it through Social Media, got a few more thousand people excited, called for a non violent /’let’s show them who we are’ mash up and soon, a revolt, of sorts, was born. Similar to <a href="http://www.dw.de/bulgarians-protest-government-of-oligarchs/a-16909751" style="color: #333332;" target="_blank">Bulgaria</a>,Turkey and Brazil, there was a collective consciousness that moved people into the streets. It is not clear if there there is anyone person or tight group guiding anything at this stage of Bosnia’s nascent activism. No one at least, who was willing come out to stake a claim or take the lead at yesterday’s protests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-28/world/40250885_1_turkey-new-government-arab-spring" style="color: #333332;" target="_blank">Unlike</a> Bulgaria, where citizens are just not giving it up, the ‘official’ day of civil disobedience scheduled for yesterday in Sarajevo was a bit of a flop. Someone lamented on Twitter that, no real goal was attained, a golden moment possibly wasted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Truth. There were the 15 people in front of the UN HQ in New York, holding up signs in solidarity which was posted online. Then, of course, the adorable underwater divers carrying JMBG cards, the video of the lone plane that dropped a case load of flyers onto the city, letting people know to ‘come on down’!, the hundreds of well wishers from St. Louis to Korea who posted on FB and more. There was support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The original ‘up to ten thousand’ from the 11th of June?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The famous Sarajilje….. We saw you there, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Call me a crazy romantic. I believe in you. Make it happen Bosnia.</span></div>
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Bosnian protests against corruption, stalemate and elitist politicians continues today as a statement to their politicians and to the world. No more! You're fired!</div>
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It's evening in Bosnian now, and there has been heightened awareness from international media outlets now reporting today's demonstrations . Aljazeera Balkans, covering the addition of Croatia into the EU for most of the weekend, today published the <a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23JMBG" rel="external" style="color: #3876b2;" target="_blank" title="Search for this hashtag on Twitter.com">#JMBG</a> logo on their digital magazine front page which was taken as a sign of positive recognition from one of the foremost media outlets.</div>
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Yesterday an <a href="https://soundcloud.com/lostvegas-productions/for-what-its-worth-stop-whats">iconic </a>60's protest song came on the car radio as I was formulating this second post about the current protests in Bosnia. The intro and chorus is well known<br />
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'I think it's time we stop, children - what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down'...<br />
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and is totally infectious. I sang along and thought about how fitting this song is for the current #occupy/protest movements around the globe.<br />
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Along with <a href="https://medium.com/better-humans/c48a55c30e29">Bulgaria</a>, Turkey, Brazil and other countries - Bosnians are in the streets emphatically showing that they are fed up. Ultimately, they plan to 'fire' their politicians for not doing their job.<br />
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I love how things have turned into a sort of family picnic gone ballistic, though thankfully all involved are coherent and are dedicated to non violent civil disobedience. No one knows better than the Bosnians how quickly events can escalate to full blown conflict.<br />
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The initial complaint on the 5th of June saw a few hundred people gathering to protest the implementation of a long overdue legislation amendment regarding <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR63/002/2013/en/27df01b4-9b7f-4450-8918-3afc91a2f95c/eur630022013en.html">identification</a> numbers for newborns. The safety of Bosnian children became the motivator and the protests swelled into the streets. The <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/06/20/babylution/">Baby-lution </a>moniker was born.<br />
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Since then, thousands more, often families, have come to the streets every day to declare their dissatisfaction with the elitist officials running the country. They stand, they eat, they hold up signs, they make music. They are together.<br />
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Years of psych games played by fear mongers on a population still working through the trauma of of unspeakable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Genocide">crimes </a>committed on civilians has taken it's toll. Corrupt politicians have been using institutionalized <a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/bosnia-republika-srpska-dodik-loud-defiant-increasingly-nervous/24823870.html">ethnic division</a> as a tool to keep the 'status quo'. That has kept an insular elitist structure in place for twenty years.<br />
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In the last three weeks, the hopelessness has been supplanted. There are 'lines being drawn' and ultimatums have been posed. <br />
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Just two nights ago it was rumored that police from the opposition were checking out social media sites to single out 'instigators' in order to charge them. The infamous dark Bosnian humor showed it's face on Twitter in response.<br />
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Nothing this big has happened since Dayton and though everyone is aware that the true test will come with the official elections in 2014, one imagines that the politicians must be nervous.<br />
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JMBG, the most visible grassroots organization has given lawmakers till <a href="http://www.jmbg.org/release-july-1-2013-come-out-and-fire-them/">July 1st to come up with a solution</a>. That is three days away.<br />
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Will they listen?<br />
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We will see on Monday, when Bosnians stand together - <a href="http://www.slobodnaevropa.org/content/jmbg-i-pozivi-na-proteste-izadjite-i-dajte-im-otkaz/25030790.html">against </a> years of terrorization, corruption and institutionalized provocation - in the that hope someone will hear the sound of the song they are singing.<br />
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'A thousand people in the street, singing songs and carrying signs Mostly saying, "hooray for our side"<br />
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<br />SilvanaMondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04938050200185582564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371472205544491880.post-81618960787877885962013-06-17T20:03:00.000-06:002013-06-29T08:57:49.350-06:00Bosnian JewryAmazing history found on this <a href="http://www.jewishpostcardcollection.com/">website </a>. Stephanie Comfort is a collector of postcards and has one of the largest collections in the world, specifically relating to Jewish heritage. I am completely fascinated and will post a few pictures below of Balkan Jewish life.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I used this picture in one of <a href="http://smondo.blogspot.com/2011/12/at-residence.html">my culture installations</a> at the Governor's Residence last year.</span> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The Jewish community prospered in Bosnia, living side by side with their Bosnian Muslim neighbors, as one of the largest European centers for Sephardi Jewry outside of Spain. Until 1944 there were roughly 20 thousand Jewish people living in Bosnia, mainly in cities.</span></span></span><br />
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There are some other pictures of Jews in the South Slavic areas like this picture from Macedonia<br />
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Fascinating reading too, while looking for pictures I read for hours. One interview was with <a href="http://jcpa.org/article/bosnian-jewry-a-small-community-meets-a-unique-challenge-during-the-1990s-war/">Ivan Ceresnjes</a> chairman of the Jewish Community during the last war and <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/bosnia-jew-seeks-to-reverse-ban-on-running-for-president-1.277407">Jakob Finci</a> present day Community representative and Ambassador to Switzerland.<br />
<a href="http://www.benevolencija.eu.org/content/view/1/1/">La Benevolencija</a><br />
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I saw the first mention of protests in Sarajevo last Wednesday via an online Bosnian newspaper. My heart beat faster as I read about a relatively small incident of protest in downtown Sarajevo, because my heart knows that anything blown out of proportion in the Balkans, especially in Bosnia could potentially lead to gruesome results. That, at least is the fear. What was the whole thing about, I wondered and quickly looked it up to find a few basic answers. I posted on Twitter and Facebook. Not many people I knew where talking about it at all.<br />
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Bosnia's next generation, a sort of sleeping baby Hulk, has been kept complacent by the poisonous rhetoric of 'ethnic hatred' and had not yet shown signs of anger, had yet to move, to act.<br />
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Protesting seemed to lead to bad consequences in Bosnia, I had to wonder if a spark like this would once again put everyone in grave danger. Yet, - I felt excitement, happiness almost. I fantasized calling my friends to say I was on my way.<br />
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The Twitter hashtag #JMBG emerged to identify what it was all about, namely the "jedinstveni matični broj građana", the number assigned to individual citizens to identify their person and place of birth.<br />
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Initially a gathering by a few hundred people in front of the Parliament building, which happened to be in session occurred on Wednesday. The protesters gathered to vent a months long grievance about the non issuance of national ID numbers, the amendment for which has been stalled since February 2013. Citizens need the numbers to apply for passports and travel visas. The basic right of free movement was denied to Bosnians born after February.<br />
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Like Istanbul the week before and the various similar #Occupy movements that set precedence around the world, Sarajevo protesters met on a relatively small platform initially. Once the first step was taken though, the sleeping giant awakened. The realization that in numbers change could be made took over in a giddy, if cautious momentum forward<br />
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Four days later thousands stood together in downtown Sarajevo and demanded, albeit peacefully, that a resolution be found immediately regarding the ID numbers. The more organized and cohesive the protest the clearer the mantra: 'Do your Job', suggesting that the political representatives do the work they were elected to do. The police were called and came. Some goons from the Republika Srpska tried to pawn off the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/bosnian-parliament-blockaded-id-protest"> blockade </a>of the Parliament building on that first day as an ethnically motivated plot to intimidate the Serbian politicians of the group. People were outraged. Even more students and young people from all over Bosnia threw in their support and staged similar non-violent protests in a dozen other cities around the country, including the RS itself.<br />
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Suddenly, Bosnian citizens, who find themselves living in a country that is badly compromised by the memory of conflict, unresolved war crimes and a forced division stemming from the disastrous Dayton Accord, seemed to have awakened from their slumber like state.<br />
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Emboldened, the streets filled up. Largely aided by postings and updates on Twitter and Facebook showing endorsements from as far away as Chicago and the Congo, the drum beat went on. Even Belgrade and Banja Luka sent messages that they were in solidarity. Sarajevo youth became alive with purpose.<br />
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My heart goes out to the peaceful protesters of Bosnia.<br />
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Just finishing up my article for <a href="http://www.downtowndenvernews.com/">Denver News</a> about Italian activist Carlo Petrini, who I had the chance to interview during the Slow Money <a href="http://slowmoney.org/events/events/nationally-organized/the-2013-slow-money-national-gathering">Gathering Boulder</a> this April. I came on this trailer about a documentary coming out exactly today featuring the Italian environmentalist/bio gastronome rock star himself!<br />
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The <a href="http://slowmoney.org/events/events/nationally-organized/the-2013-slow-money-national-gathering">Slow Money Gathering </a> winding down on Tuesday morning in Boulder, Colorado, Carlo Petrini, Founder &Visionary, <a href="http://www.slowfood.com/">Slow Food </a>and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzzkayFuLVA">Woody Tasch</a> of Slow Money meet with Journalists for an 'intimate' Coffee Kvetsch session ahead of the day's agenda. I wrote about the last Gathering in San Francisco and the <a href="http://downtowndenvernews.com/">Denver News</a> invited me to follow up on this very important event in my monthly <a href="http://smondo.blogspot.com/2011/12/keep-your-food-money-local.html">Go Green</a> column. </div>
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Slow Food is about Food, but not just. Carlo Petrini talks about civil society and how we must do our part in making the world a better place. As often my focus is on women in business and otherwise it was up to me to ask about the role that women play in this forward looking movement. At <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpX-gh1EmBQ">28:50 </a>you can hear his answer to that question.<br />
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{Video recorded by and property of Elephant Journal}SilvanaMondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04938050200185582564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371472205544491880.post-31032553956836269482013-04-22T21:52:00.000-06:002013-04-22T21:52:45.720-06:00Ritorno alla Terra<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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'It is not a Utopian world I am talking about, it is human nature to overcome these types of challenges but let me tell you now, the biggest challenge humanity faces today is how to return to the land'SilvanaMondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04938050200185582564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371472205544491880.post-34008479840382674922013-04-22T19:14:00.003-06:002013-04-22T19:14:23.774-06:00Slow Money in the Rockies
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DAYTONA BEACH — In Italy, food is as popular as art and the opera. And there's plenty of it.</div>
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The country boasts a cuisine that pleases even those who have never crossed the Atlantic to dine in a candlelit arbor of an old Tuscan villa, or to try the <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-09-30/news/9309290984_1_hoitt-pastries-di-ricotta#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; color: #004466; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: auto; color: #292727; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; white-space: nowrap !important;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; bottom: auto; color: #009900; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: underline !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;">house</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook0icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px !important; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; height: auto !important; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a> specialty at a standup pizzeria in Naples, or to join a family party at a fluorescent-bright trattoria in Rome.</div>
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''We have 20 different regions in Italy and more than that many different types of cuisines,'' said Sylvana Hoitt, co-owner of La Dolce Vita Bakery and Cafe on North Beach Street. ''Sometimes breads and pastries vary from city to town within the same region.''</div>
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Hoitt and her brother, Raymond Hoitt, opened their tiny <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-09-30/news/9309290984_1_hoitt-pastries-di-ricotta#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; color: #004466; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook1p" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: auto; color: #292727; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; white-space: nowrap !important;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook1w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; bottom: auto; color: #009900; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: underline !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;">shop</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook1icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/lb_icon1.png" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px !important; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; height: auto !important; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a> last year as a bakery and sold five types of Italian bread as well as a variety of pastries and cakes. Earlier this month they expanded the front of the store into a cafe and added Italian-style sandwiches, salads and frittatas (Italian omelets that look like French quiches) to the menu.</div>
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''We want to <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-09-30/news/9309290984_1_hoitt-pastries-di-ricotta#" id="itxthook2" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; color: #004466; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook2p" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: auto; color: #292727; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; white-space: nowrap !important;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook2w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; bottom: auto; color: #009900; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: underline !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;">share</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook2icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px !important; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; height: auto !important; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a> our rich Italian specialties with our customers, many of whom have never heard of them,'' she said.</div>
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Hoitt, who was born in Florence, a city in central Italy synonymous with art, fashion and Chianti wine, brings several Florentine baking traditions into her shop.</div>
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Cookie trays filled with cantuccini, almond cookies of Prato, empty quickly when coffee drinkers stop by for a cup of espresso or cappuccino.</div>
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''These hard cookies are a specialty of Prato, a city near Florence famous for its <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-09-30/news/9309290984_1_hoitt-pastries-di-ricotta#" id="itxthook3" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; color: #004466; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook3p" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: auto; color: #292727; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; white-space: nowrap !important;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook3w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; bottom: auto; color: #009900; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: underline !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;">textiles</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook3icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px !important; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; height: auto !important; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a> and its cookies,'' Hoitt explained. ''Many Italians call them simply biscotti (biscuits) and like to dunk them in a glass of sweet amber wine called Vin Santo before nibbling them. But they're great dipped in coffee, too.</div>
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''Amaretti (almond paste cookies) are good with espresso and cappuccino, too.''</div>
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Hoitt fills her cake trays with other Italian delights that offer a miniature sweet tooth tour of her homeland: Cassata and cannoli from Sicily, torta della nonna (custard pie) from Tuscany, crostata di mandorle (almond tart) from Abruzzo, crostata di ricotta (Roman cheesecake) from Latium and traditional rum cakes popular throughout the country.</div>
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''Most people have tried cannoli, those crunchy pastry shells filled with a mixture of creamy ricotta, nuts and fruits. They're so popular in the south of Italy that it's impossible to have any celebration without them.''</div>
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''But few have enjoyed cassata, another Sicilian specialty, that is a <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-09-30/news/9309290984_1_hoitt-pastries-di-ricotta#" id="itxthook4" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; color: #004466; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook4p" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; bottom: auto; color: #292727; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; white-space: nowrap !important;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook4w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; bottom: auto; color: #009900; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: underline !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;">simple</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook4icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/lb_icon1.png" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px !important; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; height: auto !important; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span></a> cake decorated to taste,'' Hoitt said.</div>
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Desserts usually mean the end of a meal for Americans. Italians, on the other hand, don't wait that long to enjoy their pastries and cakes. They eat them for midmorning or midafternoon treats or to honor guests at times when a regular meal may not be wanted or possible.</div>
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''Desserts can signify good times and festivities, special days or rewards for deeds well done,'' Hoitt said. ''They're also good for banishing the blues.''</div>
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Hoitt admonishes people who pass up dessert and move straight to coffee.</div>
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''That's probably because they've indulged in one too many treats that are overly sweet, heavy and fussy. Italian sweets are none of those,'' she said.</div>
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La Dolce Cafe keeps an Italian flavor on its salad menu with antipasto plates and pasta salads. Sandwiches tour Italy from the Alps in the north to Rome, which is considered the beginning of the southern regions of the land.</div>
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''We make our own breads for these sandwiches, including the multigrain German-style bread from the north; a hard-crust Romano bread that comes not from Rome, but from the central part of the country near Bologna, and focaccia, a tasty flat herb bread popular in Tuscany.''</div>
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Hoitt has named her sandwiches after the towns and regions that inspired them: Tuscan, Alpine, Florentine and Roma. There's also the Americano and the Vegetarian.</div>
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The cafe and bakery are open from 10 a.m.to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Hoitt hopes to expand the cafe hours into the evening and add <a class="itxtnewhook itxthook" href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-09-30/news/9309290984_1_hoitt-pastries-di-ricotta#" id="itxthook5" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; color: #004466; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook5w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; bottom: auto; color: #009900; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: underline !important; top: auto; white-space: nowrap !important;">music</span></a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">La Dolce Vita Bakery and Cafe is at 116 N. Beach St., Daytona Beach.</span></div>
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SilvanaMondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04938050200185582564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371472205544491880.post-5093628338609344952013-04-13T12:54:00.001-06:002013-04-13T12:57:50.299-06:00LoungeThe Stranglers - Golden Brown. Love the look. Love the sound.<br />
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(found via Shoval Zohar on FB)SilvanaMondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04938050200185582564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371472205544491880.post-28288722558618467542013-04-09T09:16:00.000-06:002013-04-09T09:16:55.325-06:00MagiFrom <a href="http://www.starofthemagi.com/card_pages/AS.html">Sharon Jeffries</a><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif;">The Ace of Spades is the card of the magician, and with this influence comes a tremendous power to manifest in the physical plane. The higher side of this card bears great spiritual wisdom, and having this birthday can create an internal tug of war between the desire for wisdom and the drive to succeed in worldly ways. The secret lies in finding a balance which embraces both, and in doing so you tap the unlimited possibilities that exist in every area of your life. Your nature is ambitious, forward moving and focused. You are very giving and loving, and at times very selfish; as an ace it's your nature to be so. Learning to listen with total presence is of utmost importance for your truest success. You have incredible intelligence and can accomplish anything you set out to do gaining great reward and recognition, and you very well could have many careers in this one lifetime. You long for a perfect love more than anything else, and have a tendency toward high ideals when it comes to relationship; take care that this does not lead to disappointment. You are here to learn and embody the higher ideals of love, and that which you dream does come to you in time. Give of yourself in whatever ways you can, for it is through giving that you find your greatest happiness.</span></div>
SilvanaMondohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04938050200185582564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371472205544491880.post-13607298574501808072013-03-13T07:16:00.001-06:002018-08-07T13:34:08.022-06:00Food & CultureFollow my Food & Culture board on Pinterest for tantalizing views of how people the Globe over present what sustains them, their families & guests.<br />
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The pictures are fabulous and here is a slideshow to feast your eyes!
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