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Author of "Cuban, Immigrant, and Londoner" https://buymeacoffee.com/mariolopez https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6886/9781528994309

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Dec 18

Why I Wrote #Cuban, #Immigrant, and #Londoner link.medium.com/yKRg6mkfhPb #writingcommunity #writing #amwriting #creativewriting #creativenonfiction #creativity #culture #diversity #humanism #grateful #writerslift #writers #writer #selfimprovement #personaldevelopment #Cuba #books #LOndon #UK

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · 1d

I wanted to shoot the oranges, coppers, and golds @kewgardens1099.bsky.social is famous for. It had been some time since I’d seen the autumn display Kew likes to put on, though.
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Shooting London

Autumn colours at Kew Gardens

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · 4d

Love for another culture’s food is not new or odd. Somehow, though, I also feel “rooted” in #Spanish #culinary output. That feeling grew tenfold this time around.
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Is It Possible to Feel “Rooted” in a Cuisine That’s Not Yours?

My love affair with Spanish food

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · 7d

#Autumn’s soundtrack is #KarenDalton’s smoky voice. Its outlook, a seasonal crimson. Its sunsets, earlier and more dramatic.
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Urban Diary

Nature gets its way (again)

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · 11d

What a strange figure he cut on this early autumn morning amongst the many runners, dog walkers, home-bound, late-night dishevelled revellers, and flat latte-holding #Hackney regulars.
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Urban Diary

Parklife

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · 13d

We have disassociated ourselves so much from reality that we have ended up empowering corporations to build our personalities for us.
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Coffee, Reflections, and Music

Big Brother’s televised revolution

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · 19d

People like my ex-classmate are the small, imperceptible details in our lives. They make no big splashes, and yet years later, we stumble upon their faces in an old, yellow photograph
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On Life’s Supporting Characters

Where would we be without them?

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · 22d

#Walking barefoot has a rich pedigree. From #hermits to #ascetics, many have chosen to forgo shoewear and opt for a simpler life, one in which #religion and #spirituality have often crossed paths.
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The Ground Beneath My Feet

Barefoot in the Sierra Nevada

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · 28d

So, what brings you to #Andalucía? The young immigration officer asked me once my plane had landed. I’m in love with your land, I answered; no hesitation in my voice whatsoever. We both had a giggle.
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The Return

How I fell in love with La Alpujarra

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Sep 19

Pausing for a few minutes on either side of the bridge, I realised that the light hitting the river rendered it painting-like. The light was not very strong, but not so weak that one could label the day cloudy.
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Shooting London

More random images of an urban nature

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Sep 14

Still, as the late #poet, Mary Oliver, once said: “If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy/don’t hesitate. Give in to it.” So, we did.
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Walking the Capital Ring

Crystal Palace to Streatham

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ripples of laughter undulate in the windless, stifling heat, carrying the mirthful tones of the two women’s voices across each dwelling
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Pieces of Me, Pieces of Havana

The “solar habanero” (the Havana slum)

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Sep 3

It is at times like these, that I switch off and tune in to #theBoss and, like that man at the end of his working day, think of the “wreck on the highway”
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Coffee, Reflections, and Music

Lessons the Boss taught me

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Aug 31

My #bicycle’s wheels get into a da DUM/da DUM/da DUM rhythm like one of #Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter-driven #sonnets.
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A River Runs Through All of Us

Let its waters tell their own story

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Watch out, England – you’re being Ulsterised | The Observer

Flag-waving, patriotic spray-painting and men shimmying up lamp-posts. Why do I feel like I’ve been here before?

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Aug 26

In #Beale’s case, one of his choices was #Bach’s St Matthew Passion, one of the #German composer’s better-known works, and one in which a younger #Simon used to take part as a choirboy.
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The Value of Simplicity

Sometimes the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth can be surprisingly straightforward

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm just listening to "Save Me" now. On You Tube, of course. 😆

ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Aug 22

Yet, over the years, I fell for #WilliamBlake’s flowing “charter’d #Thames” and a few days ago I joined a bunch of strangers belting out #TheClash’s line “I live by the river”
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The Most Important Lesson the River Thames Has Taught Me

Just like its waters, life in London flows endlessly

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Aug 15

Inspiration strikes more often when we’re off guard. When we allow in the stories that have been gnawing at us for a long time. Unfinished sentences suddenly take shape and our “writing voice” steers the ship safely to port.
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How to Find One’s Flow in the Midst of the Din

And leave all distractions behind

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Aug 13

After many years living in the #BigSmoke I’ve begun to fall in love with the Thames. Last Saturday I saw it with the tide in and it looked ominous, but also beautiful.
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Shooting London

More random images of an urban nature

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ACubanInlondon @acubaninlondon.bsky.social · Aug 10

"Many among the silent protesters in Parliament Square yesterday had to be asked if they were mobile enough to make the short walk to the police van."
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