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Nomad Notes
by Lua Hadar
The Personal Journal of Lua Hadar, Nomad Notes, begins with Season One, the Prequel to the 2024 Lisbon Project; My Story So Far will be Season Two. Nomad Notes is a series of blogs and podcasts about and inspired by my meanderings into the places of my ancient past and my ever-evolving present.
Episodes
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Nomad Notes - Season 4 - Lisbon Project - Blind Spot - Chapter 1 - Why Blind Spot
In Chapter 1, I learn of my blind spot and begin to think about blind spots in my life.
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Nomad Notes - Season 3 - Lisbon Project - Rebirth - Chapter 10 - Persistence Pays Off
The year of Rebirthing is drawing to a close and the events of the past month show me that persistence pays off. A flurry of visitors and a mold crisis both benefit from spiritual strength, and the year of rehab and sitting-in yields a full evening club booking in Lisbon.
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Nomad Notes - Season 3 - Lisbon Project - Rebirth - Chapter 9 - Friends of Friends of Friends
February 22, 2026, Lisbon, Portugal. One thing leads to another, as friends of friends help me to connect with more music, more language, more culture, and more of my purpose in life and in Lisbon.
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Nomad Notes - Season 3 - Lisbon Project - Rebirth - Chapter 8 - A Sense of Peace
A holiday season trip back to San Francisco helps me to get my purpose in life back up to the top of the list, and I am rewarded upon my return to Lisbon in January.
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Nomad Notes - Season 3 - Lisbon Project - Rebirth - Chapter 7 - The Crazy Trail of Challenges - Mishigas!
December 5, 2025, San Francisco, California. My crazy trail of challenges leads me from Bucharest to Naples, to Lisbon and back to San Francisco, leading me to conclude that “it’s always something!”
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Nomad Notes - Season 3 - Lisbon Project - Rebirth - Chapter 6 - Two Months Becomes Two Days
October 10, 2025, Sinaia, Romania. I learn a lot while on location in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania with the shoot of a feature film.
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Nomad Notes - Season 3 - Lisbon Project - Rebirth - Chapter 5 - Settling In to Bucharest
September 15, 2025, Bucharest, Romania. I settle in to my job and my life at the moment in Bucharest, Romania, learning more as I go. A meeting with someone I haven’t seen for 20 years helps me to feel like my true self.
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Nomad Notes - Season 3 - Lisbon Project - Rebirth - Chapter 4 - Bucharest?!
August 24, 2025, Bucharest, Romania. I had been chanting for prosperity, health and safety, and there’s nothing like a 2-month job to help out with prosperity, so I took the interview and got the job on a film in Romania.
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Nomad Notes - Season 3 - Lisbon Project - Rebirth - Chapter 3 - Why July?
July 22, 2025, Lisbon, Portugal. With music projects on hold and my arm in rehab, I dedicate myself to physical therapy and language study, as a change of residency rules threatens my plan.
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Nomad Notes - Season 3 - Lisbon Project - Rebirth - Chapter 2 - Spared for the Third Time
June 30, 2025, Montreal, Canada. On the way back to Lisbon, an unscheduled stop in Montreal gives me time to think and write about the concept of Rebirth in my life.
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Nomad Notes - Season 3 - Lisbon Project - Rebirth - Chapter 1 - Two Cultural Ambassadors, One Blackout, and a Life-Changing Experience
May 11, 2025, Lisbon, Portugal. A life-changing event begins Season 3 and continues The Lisbon Project, as I’m faced with a challenge I’ve never had before. Fear and despair turn to gratitude as I make my way through this.
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Nomad Notes - Season 2 - Lisbon Project - My Story So Far - BONUS - Interview with cultural ambassador Beth Wilmurt
April 23, 2025, Lisbon, Portugal. The visit of actor-director-community chorus teacher Beth Wilmurt proves to be a great meeting of the minds with an unexpected twist.
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Nomad Notes - Season 2 - Lisbon Project - My Story So Far - Chapter 10 - The Beat Goes On
March 15, 2025, Lisbon, Portugal. The parade of cultural ambassadors continues, the Carnaval parades in Madeira, I get a healthcare number, and become a fixture at the jazz jam.
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Nomad Notes - Season 2 - Lisbon Project - My Story So Far - Chapter 9 - Yes, I GOT it, and now?
February 16, 2025, Lisbon, Portugal. I finally get the Temporary Residency Permit in my hands, but the bureaucratic hoops are far from finished. And a cultural ambassador arrives.
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Nomad Notes - Season 2 - Lisbon Project - My Story So Far - Chapter 8 - Back in Lisbon, Reassured
February 1, 2025, Lisbon, Portugal. After a stopover in my native New York, I return to Lisbon, disoriented again, but ready to dig back in, now with my new digs in Lisbon.
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Nomad Notes - Season 2 - Lisbon Project - My Story So Far - Chapter 7 - Reality Check and Vision
December 4, 2024, San Francisco, CA. A holiday season return to the Bay Area for work and family is both rewarding and disorienting, as I think deeply about what the heck I’m doing.
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Nomad Notes - Season 2 - Lisbon Project - My Story So Far - Chapter 6 - The Extraction from Santarem
October 19, 2024, Lisbon, Portugal. A visit from my partner gets me out of Santarem and into a Lisbon apartment, despite a bout of COVID.
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Nomad Notes - Season 2 - Lisbon Project - My Story So Far - Chapter 5 - The Crossroads
September 24, 2024, Santarem, Portugal. After a midnight break-in, I prepare to exit, researching storage units and apartments using my phone, but at least better able to walk.
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Nomad Notes - Season 2 - Lisbon Project - My Story So Far - Chapter 4 - On the Verge of a New Chapter
September 8, 2024, Santarem, Portugal. I rock the Residency Appointment and wait for a couch.
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Nomad Notes - Season 2 - Lisbon Project - My Story So Far - Chapter 3 - Stopped in My Tracks
September 3, 2024, Santarem, Portugal. I injure my knee and experience the kindness of the Portuguese people.
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Nomad Notes - Season 2 - Lisbon Project - My Story So Far - Chapter 2 - It’s Easier Being A Tourist
August 25, 2024, Santarem, Portugal. First, a multi-day Lisbon club crawl. I finally get into my empty apartment, and, forgetting that I am no longer 30, begin camping on the floor.
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Nomad Notes - Season 2 - Lisbon Project - My Story So Far - Chapter 1 - The Return to Lisbon
August 9, 2024, San Francisco. Visa excitement, the night of my life, the Santarem showdown, and Bom Jesus!
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Nomad Notes - Season 2 - Lisbon Project - My Story So Far - Introduction
This season begins in 2024, with my decision to establish Residency in Portugal and includes the many trials and victories of the first 9 months of that residency.
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Nomad Notes - Season 1 - Chapter 6 - A Self-Appointed Cultural Diplomat Flies Again
It is now 2023, after the pandemic, and I return to Europe to sing again in Paris and to visit friends I have not seen in 8 years, as I contemplate my potential residency in Portugal.
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Nomad Notes - Season 1 - Chapter 5 - Victory Is Thriving in Spite of It
I visit Vilnius, Lithuania, to learn that worse than hatred is indifference and realize that because THEY lived, I am here today.
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Nomad Notes - Season 1 - Chapter 4 - Looking It in the Eyes
My visit to Krakow, Poland, and to the death camp at Auschwitz, realizing that if they had the courage to live it, I can have the courage to look at it.
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Nomad Notes - Season 1 - Chapter 3 - The Kindness of Strangers
I learn a lot in the ancient city of Akko, and navigate Haifa without a map or a phone.
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Nomad Notes - Season 1 - Chapter 2 - The Rewards of Courage
My Buddhist practice helps me to drive up to the Golan Heights and make peace with my cousin’s mother.
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Nomad Notes - Season 1 - Chapter 1 - What Got Me Here
An emotional first day in Tel Aviv, as I see my DNA in the faces of paintings in the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora.
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Nomad Notes - Season 1 - The Divine Dilemma
Thoughts about our common humanity, written in 2016, and newly relevant to our times in 2025.
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Nomad Notes - Season 1 - Introduction
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Personal Journal of Lua Hadar, Nomad Notes, begins with Season One, the Prequel to the 2024 Lisbon Project; My Story So Far will be Season Two. Nomad Notes is a series of blogs and podcasts about and inspired by my meanderings into the places of my ancient past and my ever-evolving present.
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Lua Hadar
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The Personal Journal of Lua Hadar, Nomad Notes, begins with Season One, the Prequel to the 2024 Lisbon Project; My Story So Far will be Season Two. Nomad Notes is a series of blogs and podcasts about and inspired by my meanderings into the places of my ancient past and my ever-evolving present.
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