Siri in Isolation

Facebook memories has been nudging me these days, sending photos from a 2014 trip to Paris, where Oswaldo and I spent 3 delightful weeks housed in the  Maison Suger,  a research institution located    in the heart of the Latin quarter. Oswaldo would lecture during the day, while I was free to walk around and drink in the city. Each day new FB generated photos bring up memories from those weeks, here walking in le Jardim de Luxembourg  when my wonderful niece Christine flew in from Copenhagen to join me for a long weekend, and we walked and walked until we couldn’t take another step – and then walked some more. At the time she had undergone fighter pilot training and was in top physical condition, entertaining me with stories about being air-dropped alone into a Canadian forest for survival training and other jaw-dropping experiences, as we strode along. We discovered that we both enjoyed watching art as much as staring at pastries or shopping for shoes together....