LuminousLuciano

LuminousLuciano

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I'm all over the place...! #LWO

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http://luminouswritings.blogspot.ca/
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Born in the Age of Aquarius, destined to seek out truths in many an art form, trained as a historian and a journalist but truly a prose-lover... Luciano is out to dispel any clichs and reinvent them all both to the tune of a little something called the truth as also to his own image - being old-fashioned, he does not mind that distinction one infinitesimal tiny bit at all...! "There are two ways to spread the light; be the candle... or the mirror that reflects It." I have chosen to be the latter... ok? "To be not only a seeker of light... but a dream weaver of light ~*~" - as surely as the moon reflects the light from the sun, you and I can reflect the Light from Above - and be, indeed, the light of this world! *~*

I am a citizen of the world; no more, no less! Born in Canada, of European ancestry, my roots are in Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria - and if one goes back far enough, the Holy Land...! I bear a proud and quite unique name too: Pimentel!

The name Pimentel is found originally in Portugal and Spain, many centuries ago. There is a coat-of-arms which depicts red chiles on a green field, and green chiles on a red field. We were apparently Spice traders by profession. Jewish people often were involved in import-export commerce such as the spice trade, and so the name Pimentel is believed to have originated among the Jewish community at some point in time, when the Jewish immigration towards Portugal and Spain occurred. They often partnered with Spanish, Arab, and Portuguese merchants and the business name became their de facto name as well. The earlier version of our name apparently was Pimentious, a name born in Roman times, many believe, and affixed to these very same daring entrepreneurial Jewish spice-trading merchants. During the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition, an option was given to many Jews and Arabs in Lusitania; go colonize those islands such as the Canaries and the spectacular Açores Islands (from which I am descended of) and you may keep your faith a low key secret and then, perhaps, avoid conversion, prison or a grisly painful death. Many took this option, not surprisingly. On the island of Terceira, there is even a village named Porto Judeo; evidence enough that this is where they landed indeed. And the rest is history.

We, Pimentels, are a proud name of traders, seafarers and adventurers. So, don't be so surprised to find that we have spread our name to India, the Phillippines, Macao, Latin America, Africa and beyond...! By the way, the name is pronounced PEA-MÈNE-TELL; this is mentioned for the benefit of the French-speakers that may be reading this, mostly...! Anywhere else in the world, the name gets to be pronounced correctly from the very initial exchange.
Thank you for reading!

Sempre Por O Melhor!
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Posted 9 Years Ago


Here I am again - not quite with the announcement that I yearn to make, but still... (Alas, there is no time to polish it all up and release it, to just let it go, on the wild wild web, as electronic publishing is the way of the future, we all know that - aye, it is about my musings in writ that we speak here!)

First off, I can announce, at least, this: my play has been published on Amazon Kindle!

And we are henceforth seeking theaters and stage directors to, well, stage this luminous play ASAP...!

The fact is, we are also talking to editors and agents, still - first, before deciding to go the self-publish route again... and again... and again!
Although, verily, we are too busy with a myriad other activities left and right - alas.
Hence the release of any other books will have to come only during phase two, somewhere down the line...

However, this announcement needs to be made right now as it is about the much-delayed contest that we set-up here, in the Café (pertaining to yet another book project of mine - of ours!) the one about an anthology, remember? A book on spirituality and individual growth: and the finalists are...

A Travel Poem
Finding My Wings
Crickets Chirp
My Angel
J3S7S
An Epiphany

A little original twist now: since we have six, I'll open the door to a potential seventh finalist (call it a wild card) and then decide upon the final three that will get the nod... and honors!

Hence, any late participants are welcome - even now, at the eleventh hour (lest it is the eleventh month, really!)

Blessings!

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Posted 11 Years Ago


Me again - reminding you that ***I write - therefore I am*** - and that those writings will incessantly be made available on... Amazon Books! I'll make the official announcement here and on my Twitter when the time finally comes!

Blessings!

Sempre Por O Melhor!
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Posted 15 Years Ago


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