Finally

After a very long silence I felt the need to write agian on my blog and to write on a regular basis. It is like I come from a very long transition period which I guess is how to deal with the impact my Indian stay had on me.

Promise I won't bore you to death with that.

I chose this picture of sea and sky (taken last week-end in Royan) because I have felt the need for many months to be on a desert island, surrounded only by the sky and the sea.

I want to resart my writing by sharing with you an extract from a small book written by Azouz Begag "L'ile des gens d'ici" (the island of the people from here"

Azouz Begag grew up in the fifties in a slum in Lyon (from Algerian parent) and he is now an amazing writer as well as a minister in our current governement. I have a lot of admiration for the man and I'm always touched by his writing.

"Cet ami breton , décalé en terre lyonnaise , m'avait permis de mieux flairer cette insondable melancolie partagée par bien des hommes d'avoir laissé quelque chose quelque part, ce que les portugais appelent la saudade et que les chanteurs de fado dans les vieux quartiers de Lisbonne vont chercher au fond de leurs entrailles quand ils entament leur chant face au public"

"Au contact de ce fils de Bretagne, je decouvrais la relativité de la position d'étranger. Etre d'ici ou d'ailleurs depend d'où l'on parle"