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NATURALLY CURIOUS GAUDEAMUS IGITUR

Misha Pless

Welcome to my blog project filled with personal and educational content. Explore my site and all that I have to offer. To my children I say: perhaps Gaudeamus Igitur will ignite your own passions as well. "Gaudeamus Igitur" ("So Let Us Rejoice") is a popular academic song, mainly sung or performed at university ceremonies. Here I explore highly personal themes, reminisce important life events, exchange ideas, and hope to reach out my children, so they learn a bit more about their dad's life.

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Leaving Germany in 1938 - Escape to Bolivia

Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain Full charactered with lasting memory, Which shall above that idle rank remain, Beyond all date,...

I remember

I remember the day you were born 21 years ago. I remember the sky, the roads, the dark of the night. I remember your little head, full...

My love of birds and my father

Perhaps my love of birds has something to do with my father. He loved birds and his attitude was contagious. He once told me that in...

On Turning Sixty

For reasons of random mental association and the free flowing of memories, I recently I went back to one of my early interests, physics. ...

The lakeshore: a goodbye song

I write these lines strolling along the shores of the Lake of Lucerne which has brought me unending joy. Evenings walking by the placid...

Impressions: An American in Lucerne

As I get ready to open a new chapter in my life, I share an article I wrote in 2016 and was published in German in a Swiss journal. There...

Per Aspera ad Astra: El 23 de Marzo de 1978

Per Aspera ad Astra, "Hacia las estrellas con dificultad". Per Aspera ad Astra: la descripción titular de la promoción del año 1978 del...

Poemas de la juventud: La Historia en un Marco

Cuando tenia 20 años escribía poemas diariamente. No logro aún hoy entender qué pasó en esa época por mi corazón. Lo único que sí creo...

Mark M: the strangest double-take I have ever had

The days after 9/11, those strange days, were full of angst and a heightened state of awareness, which took over the entire American...

Don Mario: La casa de la calle 16 de Julio

Con Don Mario estudié el piano y música solamente dos años. Pero esos dos años marcaron mi vida profundamente. Es imposible pasar un día...

The gifts with the greatest value: my personal Rosebud

One thus remembers Citizen Kane, the black-and-white masterpiece by the late Orson Welles, a movie that touched a generation of...

Shulem, a man of many names and a single destiny

My great uncle Srul was born 3 days before Tisha B'av in Ruscova, province of Maramures, Transylvania. He and his beloved wife, Hannelore...

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