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A Boy’s Blush – From the Archives

Posted on March 5, 2020 by toritto

My street – 13th Avenue at 66th street Brooklyn in the late 1940s  I lived in the buildings on the extreme left with the triangular roof lines above the awnings. The heat baked the  concrete streets of Brooklyn that Summer … Continue reading →

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Personent Hodie – 14th Century

Posted on December 17, 2015 by toritto

.  Personent hodie voces puerulae, laudantes iucunde qui nobis est natus, summo Deo datus, et de virgineo ventre procreatus. . In mundo nascitur. pannis involvitur praesepi ponitur stabulo brutorum, rector supernorum. perdidit spolia princeps infernorum. . Magi tres venerunt. parvulum … Continue reading →

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It’s Carlo Buti’s Birthday!

Posted on November 12, 2015 by toritto

Carlo Buti – 11/14/02 – 11/16/63 Several years ago I received an email from my brother-in-law, who is several years older than me. “Remember tomorrow is Carlo Buti’s birthday!  Proper celebrations should be made!” My reply was “How the hell do you know that?”.  … Continue reading →

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Kitchen Witch

Posted on September 29, 2015 by toritto

The kitchen witch still hangs in the window dangling from a string along with the spirits and distant echos She moves ever so slightly as if a ghost had passed a little too close The sun shines on her and … Continue reading →

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Toritto at the Hotel Torino – 1965

Posted on August 19, 2015 by toritto

Welcome to the Hotel Torino! No not in Turin. In Eritrea. First you need some background on how geeky Toritto wound up in Eritrea in 1964. No surprise. We had troops there. We have troops everywhere. One Spring day while … Continue reading →

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A Boy’s Blush

Posted on May 12, 2015 by toritto

My street – 13th Avenue at 66th street Brooklyn in the late 1940s  I lived in the buildings on the extreme left with the triangular roof lines above the awnings. The heat baked the  concrete streets of Brooklyn that Summer … Continue reading →

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Maoz Tzur

Posted on December 13, 2014 by toritto

for Hannukah . ——————————————-

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It’s Carlo Buti’s Birthday!

Posted on November 12, 2014 by toritto

Carlo Buti – 11/14/02 – 11/16/63 Several years ago I received an email from my brother-in-law, who is several years older than me. “Remember tomorrow is Carlo Buti’s birthday!  Proper celebrations should be made!” My reply was “How the hell do you know that?”.  … Continue reading →

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