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)

Invincible Summer

2013. Ulvsvåg, Artic Circle. Norway.

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus


"En las profundidades del invierno finalmente aprendí que en mi interior habitaba un verano invencible".
Albert Camus

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....

Wonderfuly unperfect sleeping

"  -Muy bien. Ahora solo me gustaría que nos contara en qué consiste este más que próspero negocio suyo. ¿Qué es exactamente un separador?
-Mire, a todos nos fascina quedarnos dormidos entre los brazos de una persona y levantarnos a su lado, sin embargo, tenemos que pagar un precio innecesario por ello: soportar ronquidos, despertarnos en mitad del sueño por un movimiento repentino de nuestra pareja, ahogarnos en los calores acumulados bajo las sábanas, ejecutar auténticas posturas de contorsionista para encajar los dos cuerpos… El separador es el trabajador encargado de mover a la pareja una vez se haya quedado dormida, para evitarla estas molestias. Gracias a sus estudios sobre los ritmos del sueño, el separador es capaz de detectar el momento óptimo para desplazar a uno de los dos amantes a otra cama, sin que estos se den cuenta; simplemente, espera a que llegue ese momento y actúa. Después abandona el domicilio.
-Es un trabajo muy bonito, sin duda. ¿Y el juntador?
-El trabajo del juntador es parecido, solo que a la inversa: entra en el domicilio cuando se acerca la hora de despertar y escoge el instante apropiado para situar a las dos personas de nuevo en la misma cama… ¡y abrazados! Eso sí, para trabajar de juntador se requieren varios años de experiencia como separador, porque por las mañanas la pareja es más susceptible de despertarse."

Rafael Mendoza Gaspart "ENTREVISTA AL MAGNATE DE LOS NEGOCIOS J. R. ALBERTOS (Revista mensual Negocios Capitales, número 124)"

"- (E) All right. Now I would like you to explain to us what is your solution. What exactly is a separator?

- (JR A) The separator is the worker responsible of moving the couple once they have fallen asleep. Through his studies on the rhythms of sleep, he is able to detect the optimal time to move one of the two lovers to another bed, without them realizing it. The separator waits for that moment and then acts. He is also trained in Samurai techniques, to move, and move others, stealthesly. Then, after the couple has been separated and each member has been taken to a different bed, the separator, leaves the home. It is a very beautiful job, very Zen, which now is very trendy. A nephew of mine is studying to be one of them.

- (E) [Laughts] And the gatherers?

- (JR A) The gatherers work is similar, only in reverse, entering the home when it is almost time to wake up and choose the best time to put two people back in the same bed and cuddled ... ! However, working as a gatherer will require several years of experience as a separator, because in the morning the couple is more likely to wake up. "

Rafael Mendoza Gaspart "INTERVIEW TO THE BUSINESS TYCOON J. R. ALBERTOS"

Oh! The Places You’ll Go!

Oh! The Places You’ll Go!
by the incomparable Dr. Seuss

"Congratulations! Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.

And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
You’ll look up and down streets.
Look’em over with care.
About some you will say, “I don’t choose to go there.”
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you’re too smart to go down a not-so-good street.
And you may not find any you’ll want to go down.
In that case, of course, you’ll head straight out of town.
It’s opener there in the wide open air.
Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you.

And when things start to happen,
don’t worry. Don’t stew.
Just go right along. You’ll start happening too.
Oh! The Places You’ll Go!
You’ll be on your way up!
You’ll be seeing great sights!
You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have the speed.
You’ll pass the whole gang and you’ll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you’ll be best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

Except when you don’t.
Because, sometimes, you won’t.
I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, it’s true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.
You can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch.
And your gang will fly on. You’ll be left in a Lurch.
You’ll come down from the Lurch with an unpleasant bump.
And the chances are, then, that you’ll be in a Slump.
And when you’re in a Slump, you’re not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.


You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. But mostly they’re darked.
A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin!
Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?
How much can you lose? How much can you win?
And if you go in, should you turn left or right…or right-and-three-quarters?

Or, maybe, not quite? Or go around back and sneak in from behind? Simple it’s not, I’m afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind [...]."

Nos vemos a la vuelta de mi Memorial trip. Continuará...

Sobre hogares y despedidas/ about homes and fairwells.

- Fuck, this hurts so much.

- Yeah, I know.
But that is life.
If nothing else,
that's life, you know.

It's real.
Sometimes it fuckin' hurts.
To be honest,
it's sort of all we have.
How are you feelin'?

- Safe.
When I'm with you,
I feel so safe.
Like I'm home.
"Garden State" screenplay Zach Braff 2004

Soportes/ supports

Todo el mundo necesita un buen soporte para caminar hacia el futuro. Que suerte que se puedan adquirir sin receta médica.
Everybody needs some good support to walk along the future. how lucky that we can get it without medical prescription.

Sobre el camino / About the path

XXLIV
"Todo pasa y todo queda,
pero lo nuestro es pasar,
pasar haciendo caminos,
caminos sobre la mar.


I
Nunca perseguí la gloria,
ni dejar en la memoria
de los hombres mi canción;


yo amo los mundos sutiles,
ingrávidos y gentiles
como pompas de jabón.


Me gusta verlos pintarse
de sol y grana,
volar bajo el cielo azul,
temblar súbitamente y quebrarse.


XXIX
Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino, y nada más;
caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.


Al andar se hace camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.


Caminante, no hay camino,
sino estelas en la mar".

Antonio Machado. Provervios y Cantares, Campos de Castilla (1912)


XLIV
"Everything passes and everything remains,
but we can only pass,
pass making paths,
paths over the sea.


I
I never sought glory,
nor to leave in man’s memory my song;
I love the subtle worlds,
weightless and delicate,
like soap bubbles.


I like to see them painted
by sun and spots,
fly under the blue sky,
then tremble and burst…


XXIX
Traveller, it’s your footprints
that are the path, nothing more;
Traveller, there is no path,
the path is made by walking.
By walking the path is made
and looking back you see
the trail you will never tread again.


Traveller, there is no path,
only foam trails on the sea."

Antonio Machado. Provervios y Cantares, Campos de Castilla (1912)

Sobre la construcción de nidos

El nido es el abrigo que hacen las aves a fin de protegerse y proteger a su vez a los huevos y polluelos de los depredadores. Cumple la función de refugio y mantiene una temperatura cálida para los que habitan en él. Se prepara con ilusión durante la espera.

Un nido no tiene porque ser algo muy complicado. No existen normas con respecto a la complejidad de su elaboración, ya que ésta depende de la función que desempeñe y de la personalidad de cada pájaro:

Existen construcciones extremadamente sencillas como las de la lechuza o muy elaboradas, como las de los pájaros lira.

Cada uno de los materiales que el ave utiliza para la creación del nido cumple una función única:

Los materiales fuertes, como las ramitas más gruesas, contribuyen a dar la estructura y la consistencia necesarias al nido para resistir su propio peso, el de los animales y las inclemencias del tiempo.

Los materiales aglutinantes fijan el nido y acaban de darle solidez al conjunto.

Los materiales de revestimiento, como la hierba, o los musgos, son el forro que sirve para hacer el nido más confortable.
Casi todas las aves aportan algo de si mismas haciendo de su nido un lugar único y personal para el que está por venir. A veces es saliva, o su propio plumón, pero cada nido debe conterner algo de sus constructores.

El macho busca un buen sitio donde anidar, y en cuanto lo encuentra llama a la hembra, que lo aprueba o lo niega. Decidido el lugar, el macho va trayendo ramitas y las entrega individualmente a la hembra, parándose en su espalda.

Ella los arregla, encerrándose en el círculo del nido y usando su cuerpo como medida. El varón vuelve al nido decenas de veces, trayendo materiales de anidación que entrega a la hembra, generalmente de madrugada.

A veces para ello algunas especies deben recorrer grandes distancias, pero su capacidad innnata les hace reconocer el nido a pesar del camuflaje y de su similitud a muchos otros.
La capacidad de las aves de volver a un lugar concreto tras recorrer grandes distancias se debe a que utilizan el sol para guiarse durante el día, y las estrellas por la noche.
La posición de las constelaciones alrededor de los polos celestes les enseña el camino a casa.

The nest is the coat that birds make in order to be protected and give protection to the eggs and nestlings out of the predators. It fulfills the function of refuge and supports a hot temperature for those who live in it. It is happily prepared during the wait.
A nest does not have to be complicated. There's no procedure with regard to the complexity of his elaboration, it depends on the function that the nest plays and of the personality of every bird: there are constructions that are extremely simple, as those of the owl, or very elaborated, as those of the birds lira (Menura spp).

Each of the materials that the bird uses for the creation of the nest fulfills a unique function.

The strong materials, as the thickest twigs, help to give the necessary structure and the consistency to the nest to resist his own weight,besides the bird one and the inclemencies of the weather.

The agglutinative materials fix the nest and give him solidity to the set. The materials of coating, as the grass, or the mosses, are the lining that serves to do the most comfortable nest.
Almost all the birds contribute with something of themselves turning the nest to a unique and personal place for the one that is for coming. for example saliva, or his own down, but every nest has to content a little of themselves. For the construction of the nest.

The male looks for a good place to build it, and when he finds it , he calls the female, who approves or denies it.

when they have find the place, the male start bringing twigs and delivers them individually to the female, stoppinghim in her back. She arranges them, shutting in herself in the circle of the nest and using her own body as measure. The male returns to the nest dozens of times, bringing materials that delivers to the female, generally in the dawn.

Some species must cross big distances to do it, but his inborn capacity makes them recognize the nest in spite of the camouflage and similitude to many others .

The capacity of the birds to return to a concrete place even if they have travelled big distances it is due to the fact that they use the sun to guide them during the day, and the stars in the night. The position of the constellations orund the celestial poles shows them the way home.