Sorry folks, havent written for a while. The first couple of days of the easter holidays I’ve spent at my uncle’s place near Marbella. He’s a retired journalist and as an officer of high-rank he also worked for NATO in various functions.
My earliest memories of him were the struggles he and my mom fought out about topics like the policy of the ANC in South Africa, the peace movement in the 80ies, the pershing II discussion and so forth. In these discussions, it was my mom taking the far left position, leaving the whole of the right wing to fill in for my uncle. Nevertheless I always had the impression that these discussions were fair and constructive, yet sometimes a little louder, but more due to passion than aggression.
Its been a while since I had a longer conversation with my uncle, in fact, we only see each other once a year or so on one of our big family meetings.
A couple of months ago we started a little e-mail conversation since we found out that we think alike on various issues. Being at his place, together with his wife Carmen, we continued our discussing over a wide-spread series of topics and persons from spanish prime-minister Zapatero to Die Linke, the new left-winged party in Germany that is likely to take over opinions from the far right as well.
He told me about his work as a journalist and he was a little suprised to hear that Peter Scholl Latour is my girlfriend’s uncle. We both agreed that he’s an brave person, but we also agreed that we very rarely share his point of view.
My uncle showed me quite a bit of Andalusia, well, as much as one can squeeze into 3 days. Its such a lovely place and I plan to do this trip again!
Back home I started working on arrangements for my fellow musical friend Scott Brookman. He wrote some wonderful songs that still need some bass guitar. Keep ya updated:)
