Thought Quotient

I just got through seeing the new TOM HANKS movie THE TERMINAL.

Thought some others would find this interesting.

I originally heard of Merhan Karimi Nasseri on a CBS news interview many, many years ago. Due to some bad circumstances, he was living in Charles de Gaulle airport.

Merhan Karimi Nasseri has waited patiently in Charles de Gaulle airport, sleeping on a red plastic bench, for the past 11 years, hoping for official political refugee status. Now, the 54 year old Iranian native can leave his airport home, if he wants to. Belgium has granted him refugee credentials. ‘‘We are very pleased for him,’’ said Dominique Deladrier, the Belgian consul in Paris. ‘‘If we had known the extent of his dilemma earlier, we could have straightened this out a long time ago.’’

NYTimes.com link - Matthew Rose article on latest twist in 15-year saga of Merhan Karimi Nasseri, celebrity homeless person and former refugee from Iran who continues to live in Charles de Gaulle Airport terminal

Irish Examiner - World News - July 14, 1999

There were some definite spiritual questions I thought of in my own life.

- Am I ’stuck in a terminal?’ in my own life?
- Am I too afraid to make it ouside?
- Do I fear the unknown life outside of the comfortable area I have now?
- Where am I going?
- Whom do I want to be associated with? (In the movie, Tom Hanks character has to declare his nationality.)

P.S.
Jazz saxophonist Benny Golson is in the film

Something in B Flat - Benny Golson Itunes link

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