THE PLEASURES OF LIVING IN THE TROPICS

One of the pleasures of being back in Miami is to enjoy this vista each morning, while sipping on a good cuban coffee.This view is from the house of Youssef, with whom I stay when I am in Miami.

Each morning I am grateful for this life La vida es un sueno and I told youssef this morning.. If someone wants to go to heaven, they really dont have to wait to die, just ring the bell at 7627 and you enter our paradise ..

Like Omar Khayyam wrote long time ago (12th century Mirzapur from memory?)

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,

A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread—and Thou

Beside me singing in the Wilderness—

Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

تنگى مى لعل خواهم و ديوانى

سد رمقي بايد و نصف نانى

وانگه من و تو نشسته در و يرانى

خوشتر بود از مملكت سلطانى

Romanization:

Tungē may-i la'l xwāham o dīwānē
Sadd-i ramaqē bāyad o nisf-i nānē
W-āngah man o to nišasta dar wērānē
Xwaštar buwad az mamlakat-i sultānē.

Tajik Cyrillic:

тунге майи лаъл хоҳаму дивоне

садди рамақе бояду нисфи ноне

вонгаҳ ман у ту нишаста дар вайроне

хуштар бувад аз мамлакати султоне