The blue glove

Cuando tienes 5 años y la cabeza abierta con una brecha que palpita y que arde, no quieres que te grapen la herida o te la desinfecten.
No entiendes la utilidad del dolor.
Pataleas. Gritas. 

No quieres que tu padre o tu tío, o tu hermano, te digan que debes ser valiente. ¿Es menos valiente el que llora? 

Quieres una caricia, un abrazo, alguien que, con su sonrisa de volcán que todo lo inunda, sepa darle vida a un aséptico guante sanitario azul esterilizado y convertirlo en un extraño compañero al que agarrarte al sentir el miedo y el dolor cuando ella hace lo que tiene que hacer.

Así son las personas que sacan adelante el Rosalie Rendú Medical Center de Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince. Haití.

When you are five and you have an open head wound throbbing and burning, you do not want anybody to stapled or disinfected it.

You do not understand the utility of pain.

you Kick non-stop. You scream.

You do not want your father or your uncle or your brother, to say that you must be brave. Does it crying made you less brave?

You want cuddle and hugs, someone with a smile like a volcano that can flooded everything. Someone who knows how to bring an aseptic blue sterilized medical glove into life and turn it into an odd companion to hold on to when you feel the fear and the pain that came when he/she does what it has to be done.

So this is how the people in charge of the Rosalie Rendu Medical Center in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince. Haití looks like.

Utopías de vida

"Los países más prósperos han logrado acumular suficiente poder de destrucción como para aniquilar cien veces, no sólo a todos los seres humanos que han existido hasta hoy, sino la totalidad de los seres vivos que han pasado por este planeta de infortunios.

[...] Ante esta realidad sobrecogedora que a través de todo el tiempo humano debió de parecer una utopía, los inventores de fábulas que todo lo creemos, nos sentimos con el derecho de creer que todavía no es demasiado tarde para emprender la creación de la utopía contraria. Una nueva y arrasadora utopía de la vida, donde nadie pueda decidir por otros hasta la forma de morir, donde de veras sea cierto el amor y sea posible la felicidad, y donde las estirpes condenadas a cien años de soledad tengan por fin y para siempre una segunda oportunidad sobre la tierra."
La soledad de América Latina. Discurso de aceptación del Premio Nobel de Literatura.
Gabriel García Marquez (1982)

"The most prosperous countries have succeeded in accumulating powers of destruction such as to annihilate, a hundred times over, not only all the human beings that have existed to this day, but also the totality of all living beings that have ever drawn breath on this planet of misfortune.
[...] Faced with this awesome reality that must have seemed a mere utopia through all of human time, we, the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to believe that it is not yet too late to engage in the creation of the opposite utopia. A new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second opportunity on earth."

La soledad de América Latina. Nobel Lecture.
Gabriel García Marquez (1982)

Private Collections

"Mi padre tenía una colección que encontré y que todavía hoy tengo. Era una caja que guardaba en su mesa que contenía piedrecitas, cientos de ellas.

Una vez me dijo: "cada momento feliz que vivo me demuestra  que merece la pena vivir la vida y, como signo de gratitud, pongo un guijarro en esta caja".

Así que, en realidad, lo que coleccionaba mi padre eran momentos felices.

[...] Desde este punto de vista no existe ninguna diferencia entre una estatua griega y un simple guijarro"

Louise Bourgeois. Reseña de la artista sobre la exposición "The Sigmund Freud Antiquities: Fragments of a buried past"

Artforum vol. 28. Enero 1990

"My father had a collection that I found once and that I still preserve today.

It was a box that he kept at his desk which contained stones, hundreds of them. 

Once told me: "every happy moment that I live shows me that it is worth living life and, as a sign of gratitude, I put a pebble in this box". 

So, in fact, what my father collected were happy times. 

[...] From this point of view there is no difference between a Greek statue and a simple pebble".

Louise Bourgeois.Review of the artist on the exhibition "The Sigmund Freud Antiquities: Fragments of a buried past"Artforum vol. 28. Enero 1990

Little-big Yoda has arrived

“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm.... And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.”

Yoda 

Star Wars episode V. The Empire Strikes Back

Welcome to your new home, Yoda. We are eager to learn from you.

This post want also to pay tribute to the memory of my beautiful friend Jackie. I know Yoda can feel you close too, and that wherever you are now you will be smiling, looking how far the shoes you picked for me has gone...



"El tamaño no importa. Mírame a mí. Me juzgas por mi tamaño, ¿eh? Y no deberías, porque mi aliada es la Fuerza, y una poderosa aliada es... La vida la crea, la hace crecer, nos penetra y nos rodea... ¡Seres luminosos somos! ¡No esta cruda materia!. Debes sentir la fuerza a tu alrededor: aquí entre tu y yo, el árbol, la roca en todos lados, si. Incluso entre el cielo y la tierra "

Yoda, 
la guerra de las Galaxias Episodio V. 
El imperio Contraataca

Bienvenida a tu nuevo hogar, Yoda, Estamos deseosos de aprender de ti.

Este post quiere también rendir tributo a la memoria de mi bella amiga Jackie. Se que Yoda te siente cerca, y que , donde quiera que estés ahora seguro que sonries viendo lo lejos que han llegado los zapatos que escogiste para mi....

Mensajes del más allá

Madrid-San Diego (CA)-Madrid

"There is no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard
No song that I could sing, but I can try for your heart

Los Ángeles-San Diego (CA)-Madrid

 Our dreams, and they are made out of real things

San Juan del Sur (Nicaragua)-Madrid

 Like a, shoebox of photographs
With sepiatone loving

Madrid-San Diego (CA)-Madrid

  Love is the answer,
At least for most of the questions in my heart

San Diego (CA)-Madrid

Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it's so hard?

Madrid-Madrid

 It's not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving

Madrid-Madrid

I'll tell you one thing,

Ulán Bator (Mongolia)-Madrid

it's always better when we're together"

Jack Johnson. Better together

Diga...

“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”
William Allen White

"No le tengo miedo al futuro, porque he visto el ayer y me encanta el hoy."
William Allen White

Sobre el arte y la inspiración

" El niño todo lo ve como novedad esta siempre "embriagado".  

Nada se asemeja más a la inspiración que la alegría con la que el niño absorve la forma y el color. [...]

 

 En el hombre de genio la razón ocupa un lugar considerable. En el niño la sensibilidad ocupa casi todo su ser. Pero el genio no es más que la infancia recobrada a voluntad".

Charles Baudelaire. " El pintor de la vida moderna"

"The child sees everything as a novelty; the child is always 'drunk'. Nothing is more like what we call inspiration than the joy the child feels in drinking in shape and colour. [...] The man of genius has strong nerves; those of the child are weak. 

In the one, reason has assumed an important role; in the other, sensibility occupies almost the whole being. But genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will".

Charles Baudelaire. "The painter of modern life"

Sobre el deseo de cambio

"El que quiere cambiar siempre tiene una razón. El que no, siempre tiene una excusa"
@magomore
TEDxUIMP

 
"The one that want to change, he always has a reason. The one who does not, he always have an excuse"

@magomore
TEDxUIMP

Children of the Revolution

 Well you can bump and grind

 It is good for your mind

  Well you can twist and shout let it all hang out

 But you won't fool the children of the revolution

 

No you won't fool the children of the revolution,

no no no

 No you won't fool the children of the revolution

  No way, yeah, wow!

"Children of the Revolution. T Rex"(written by Marc Bolan)

Electric feel

All along the eastern shore

Put your circuits in the sea

This is what the world is for

Making electricity

You can feel it in your mind

Oh, you can do it all the time

Plug it in and change the world

MGMT. "Electric feel"

Sweet new words