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ACubanInlondon
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Author of "Cuban, Immigrant, and Londoner"
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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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As I put my own #ChelseaFC hoodie up and adjust it in a way that it only covers my head up to my hairline, I see out of the corner of my eye a woman take two steps to her left away from me.
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Urban Diary
The “hoodie army”
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November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I can’t stop thinking of the composers and singers who write words for people to listen to them, understand them, analyse and discuss them.
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Living in a Multilingual World
The one about songs we don’t understand
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November 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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In Broomfield Park the ground is covered in #SeamusHeaney’s “shin-deep coffers of copper-fired leaves”.
medium.com/woodworkers-... #WritingCommunity #cycling #cyclinglife #writing #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting @bikeabilityuk.bsky.social #travel #bicycles #Bikeability #writer
Diary of a Cycling Instructor
Autumn and I kick into gear together
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November 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Housework remains the last frontier to be crossed and conquered, the territory where we will plant our Male of the Species Flag, once we have orbited around the sink and landed in front of the ironing board.
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Who Really Gets Their Hands Dirty At Home?
Let’s talk about men and housework.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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One of the downsides, and there are many, is that this newfound love for the type of establishment that Prince Williams (and his dodgy uncle Andrew) represent, belies the true nature of contemporary Britain, especially in urban areas.
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The Royals
No, not the baseball team, dear
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November 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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This is the difference between a good and a bad #poem: #rhythm. An under-par poem sounds flat to me whichever way I read it. On the other hand, a poem with its own groove, jumps, skips and hops around.
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Of Literature and Other Abstract Thoughts
What prices rhythm?
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October 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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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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October 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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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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October 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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#Autumn’s soundtrack is #KarenDalton’s smoky voice. Its outlook, a seasonal crimson. Its sunsets, earlier and more dramatic.
medium.com/the-daily-cu... #WritingCommunity #photography #writing #creativewriting #creativity #culture #diversity #autumnlandscape #autumnal #autumnleaves #meditation #yoga
Urban Diary
Nature gets its way (again)
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October 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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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October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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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October 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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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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October 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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#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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October 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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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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September 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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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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September 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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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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September 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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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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September 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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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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September 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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My #bicycle’s wheels get into a da DUM/da DUM/da DUM rhythm like one of #Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter-driven #sonnets.
medium.com/know-thyself... #WritingCommunity #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting #photography #amwriting #writerslift #London #RiverLea #cycling #bicyclelife
A River Runs Through All of Us
Let its waters tell their own story
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August 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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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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August 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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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.
medium.com/the-daily-cu... #WritingCommunity #creativity #culture #diversity #creativewriting #amwriting #writers
The Value of Simplicity
Sometimes the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth can be surprisingly straightforward
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August 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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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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August 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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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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August 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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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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August 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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"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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As hundreds committed the offence of putting ink to cardb...
Nurses, doctors, retired people and architects among 466 protesters arrested as terrorism suspects
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August 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM