<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826029393398350326</id><updated>2024-11-01T06:41:10.546-04:00</updated><category term="spirituality"/><category term="meditation"/><category term="self help"/><category term="Dharma"/><category term="amor"/><category term="felicidad"/><category term="general interest"/><category term="people"/><category term="autoayuda"/><category term="genral interest"/><category term="inner work"/><category term="m spirituality"/><category term="meditacion"/><category term="response"/><category term="responses"/><category term="society"/><category term="who you really are"/><category term="family"/><category term="planet"/><category term="self-help"/><category term="vida interior"/><category term="Historias verdaderas"/><category term="parenting"/><category term="proposito de vida"/><category term="yoga"/><category term="#meditation #happyLife #TheArtOfAGoodLife"/><category term="#self-help"/><category term="#society"/><category term="#spirituality"/><category term="Argentina"/><category term="children"/><category term="clima"/><category term="hacerse cargo"/><category term="international women day"/><category term="kids"/><category term="niece"/><category term="niños"/><category term="non-profit"/><category term="planeta"/><category term="population"/><category term="psicologia"/><category term="religion"/><category term="self awareness"/><category term="self love"/><category term="women"/><title type='text'>JUNGLAdeTERCIOPELO</title><subtitle type='html'>el mundo, desde mis ojos&#xa;the world from my eyes</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12548713958464458613</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826029393398350326.post-8290513925982055568</id><published>2018-08-31T11:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2018-08-31T11:12:15.428-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="#meditation #happyLife #TheArtOfAGoodLife"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="#self-help"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="#society"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="#spirituality"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="general interest"/><title type='text'>Happy and joyfull, never threaten.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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I asked for and I&#39;ve got it. And now?&lt;br /&gt;
Well, yesterday I realised that all around me is changing, that the safe calm environment is changing and I felt&amp;nbsp;threatened. My question is why I feel&amp;nbsp;threatened.&lt;br /&gt;
As the afternoon turned into night, I thought about who and what I want to have in my life: people who want&amp;nbsp;to grow spiritually and have a great life.&lt;br /&gt;
My sadness came when I discovered that some of these persons are not willing to evolve and move their&amp;nbsp;life towards a much better place. However, I am not going back, I will say&amp;nbsp;goodbye&amp;nbsp;without regrets.&lt;br /&gt;
Do you find that it sounds a little selfish? No, I perceive my world from my person, as you do from yours. And we must, yes must, aspire only to the best for our life.&lt;br /&gt;
Years ago, I had a huge heartbreak. I was far from my family, new in town, I felt really alone. For the longest&amp;nbsp;time,&amp;nbsp;I was not facing the issues in my life, I was, how to say... distracted from myself. The price was very high: I sank into a great depression. One day I became aware that I was not&amp;nbsp;able to feel better without help.&lt;br /&gt;
I look for a psychologist to help me, I started meditating, reading and writing. Working on myself, seriously, as if I worked for a salary. In fact, much more. I poured my heart into a notebook, I&amp;nbsp;cried&amp;nbsp;until I had no more tears. I asked why me and finally, I got angry and then, &amp;nbsp;I surrendered.&lt;br /&gt;
A couple of months later, I woke up, and I was feeling fine, I was not depressed.&lt;br /&gt;
Some days were better than others and then the good ones overpowered the bad ones and now, the great majority are great days, from&amp;nbsp;beginning&amp;nbsp;to end.&lt;br /&gt;
I am telling you about&amp;nbsp;this&amp;nbsp;because I felt threatened: all those good days could be in&amp;nbsp;jeopardy. No, it was the memory of what it was.&lt;br /&gt;
A deep breath revealed to me that it is my choice, every day how I feel, with whom I share my life, what kind of awareness, compassion, love I put our in the world is what I am willing to have in my life. Like looking at myself in a mirror: I chose to look at the good, peace, joy and love.&lt;br /&gt;
Who wants to join me&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;this journey?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Yesterday, I was listening something on public radio and I was in shock about the dismissal of the quality of the work done by a woman. The sad thing was that those words came from another woman.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I started thinking about how we treat our women pairs, how we talk of them, how much value we give to each other. As we have all grown to be who we are in a male dominated society, we have it imprinted in our minds, those diminishing thoughts, that are not ours but imposed by the social structure, customs, religious beliefs, employers and so on. Based on that, we women are the most cruel and brutal critics of other women. Many times, women’s errors are are not different than men’s errors. But we choose to rip them apart, and say such horrible things… And we found ourselves not knowing how to be better women and excuse ourselves behind...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Today, March 8th is the Internationa Women’s Day. Cheer, my dear ones!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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This has been an interesting week.&lt;br /&gt;
I witness a friend receiving what he has put out in the universe. He was not 100% honest with his girlfriend and she discovered that, which sadden him, but did not reflect upon. Then, his business came crashing as someone changed all the passwords for his online accounts the ones for his business to function. &amp;nbsp;I commiserate and console him as it was an avalanche of disasters one after the other, in addition to the boat almost sinking!&lt;br /&gt;
The following day, I woke up to the thought that life is like a boomerang: go get back what you put out. And I understood the lesson. Wow, it took so long but in the mirror of my friend, it was clearer than ever.&lt;br /&gt;
What is the point&amp;nbsp;of being super straight and honest in business if we lie to others and ourselves on our feelings and how we invest our time and effort? I came to the realization many years ago that my best way of doing was to be honest, straight forward and do the best I can at every moment.&lt;br /&gt;
When we are transparent&amp;nbsp;in our actions, clear results await us. Why? Because those are the results, effects and consequences I want to see in my life. And because when you lie, you tangle yourself in the web of the non-true statements and finally, when you are distracted, lies pull your pants down and bit your ass in public.&lt;br /&gt;
There is more to learn from this lesson and the situation can be repeated&amp;nbsp;in many other life situations. Newton&#39;s apple observation is how the universe works, either in the material or the immaterial world.&amp;nbsp;All you put out in your universe is going to manifest and the results will be consistent with your previous actions.&lt;br /&gt;
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Out of line &amp;nbsp;was the last line in response to my email. I expressed my point of view and the response was that the other did not appreciate my point of view, after so many mistakes were made.&lt;br /&gt;
Do I care? Not really. Am I surprised? Yes, human reactions always surprise me mostly because I don&#39;t think like most.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWGsyW40y5AswlMd8ruSPYoAl62Zv8fEMusHnSZCobmRc79FyQDD4SsIKQDfJcXoUv6-z7CesFZCuvGVwvPZEbamw0UtJVWu_GeaOiZNoKilKqM8vshZh9oMiaClKcTSKnqkO3YIMk1cc/s1600/MC+17.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWGsyW40y5AswlMd8ruSPYoAl62Zv8fEMusHnSZCobmRc79FyQDD4SsIKQDfJcXoUv6-z7CesFZCuvGVwvPZEbamw0UtJVWu_GeaOiZNoKilKqM8vshZh9oMiaClKcTSKnqkO3YIMk1cc/s1600/MC+17.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;At 17, I looked 12 and looking younger has not changed. I don&amp;#39;t look 12, or 17, but certainly not my age: the proportion age-looks  still intact.&lt;br&gt;
I have as well a non-conscience of time, and I believe I have all the time in my life to accomplish whatever is my dharma in this life.&lt;br&gt;
But, is it true or it is just my reality distortion bubble to avoid reality?&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;One Saturday morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the early 70&#39;s, I was walking to the square with my dad, when I heart and saw for the first time a group of five young Hare Krishna devotées. We stopped for a moment and I left chanting to Lord Krishna. It was a glimpse -not always present until I was much older- of my soul&#39;s thirst for&amp;nbsp;expressing in a vivid manner.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Much later, I&amp;nbsp;discovered that depending on where you have been born,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;your idea of living well changes radically.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;more&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In her interesting article &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;10 Things India Teaches The Rest Of The World About Living Well&quot;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://yoganonymous.com/contributors/erica-simon/&quot; title=&quot;See all posts by Erica Simon&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; color: rgb(108, 146, 186); font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Erica Simon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;resumes the important in these short phrases:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It’s the birthplace of yoga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;They view health from a holistic perspective&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;They embrace vegetarianism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;They have strong family values&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;They cook with turmeric&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;They’re making low-cost health innovations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;They live in color&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;They have a culture that prizes compassion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;They know that breathing is crucial to good health&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;They celebrate the power of music&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;They know how to do a memorable tribute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;They value inner wisdom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keep on reading, if it has&amp;nbsp;ignited your flame of curiosity at:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://yoganonymous.com/10-things-india-teaches-the-rest-of-the-world-about-living-well/#sthash.iXvDjyBX.dpuf&quot;&gt;http://yoganonymous.com/10-things-india-teaches-the-rest-of-the-world-about-living-well/#sthash.iXvDjyBX.dpuf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/feeds/1462262736665510187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2013/11/living-well-learnt-behaviour.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="response"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="responses"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="self help"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="self-help"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="spirituality"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="vida interior"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="who you really are"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="yoga"/><title type='text'>to desire... or not?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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There is a basic problem with the word &quot;desire&quot; used as a translation of the Tibetan &quot;tanha&quot;. Buddha talks about desire in the sense of excess, addiction, obsession. The choice of that word is limiting and confusing, since the understanding of the concept and the direction of the teaching is not what we understand in the West. He also talks about &quot;good desire&quot;, in Tibetan &quot;chanda&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
I reflected for a long time about these words and the meaning. Words in different cultural contexts, have a different &quot;significant&quot; (word definition + cultural significance&quot;).&amp;nbsp;Words are very important since they refine our capacity to express our inner life.&lt;br /&gt;
Desire is a motor for us to have direction and have the desire to move forward, to try new experiences. Only when that (or those) desire become obsessive (only work, only money, always being correct, perfect body, and so on) is when the experience of life becomes painful. And sometimes, it is needed as well, to learn.&lt;br /&gt;
After all, we are souls having a human experience, and pain, suffering, is part of the process of spiritual evolution. The point is to not get submerged in only one subject and underser life.&lt;br /&gt;
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There are many ways of being unhappy and many people who can make us feel unhappy. But, is it real? Do the other has such power over us? Or is it perhaps, that we are allowing the other to be in charge of our feelings? Who is in charge? Does the other have this fabulous power to make us un-happy?&lt;/div&gt;
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Driving to work, at the supermarket, your significant other, your neighbour, whoever and whatever can bring darkness to our day, because they have no idea of what they are feeling or worst!, they do not care enough to do something about it.&amp;nbsp;
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Being happy is not a given. Being happy is a choice and requires some work at the beginning. That special work is awareness of our feelings, awareness of our actions, awareness of our words, awareness of our thoughts.&amp;nbsp;
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What do I mean by awareness? I mean monitoring your thoughts and not believing on each of them that pop in our mind, in a state of non-awareness, of pure distraction.&amp;nbsp;
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Every time we are non-aware, we can get caught in fear, desperation, destructive thoughts, envy, criticism, and so on.&amp;nbsp;
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However, when we are aware, we understand that a situation which is presenting itself as fearful, can be one in which we must pay extra attention; when we feel in desperation, we are our vision becomes restricted to the hole of a funnel instead of looking at the big picture.&amp;nbsp;
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My conclusion is that we must be responsible for our well being, not only physical, but the most important, psychological, mental and spiritual.&amp;nbsp;
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Once we enter the rhythm, it is a natural dance and if we skip a step, we just have to catch the music again and keep on dancing. Happy and free. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/feeds/7650468407566245036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2013/04/happiness-daily-choice.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/7650468407566245036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/7650468407566245036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2013/04/happiness-daily-choice.html' title='Happiness, a daily choice'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12548713958464458613</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Maule Lake, Miami-Dade, FL, USA</georss:featurename><georss:point>25.930061241149556 -80.147440098828156</georss:point><georss:box>25.872939741149555 -80.228121098828154 25.987182741149557 -80.066759098828157</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826029393398350326.post-9098504344496927734</id><published>2013-02-20T22:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2013-03-02T09:13:40.777-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="amor"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="felicidad"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="general interest"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="genral interest"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Historias verdaderas"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="people"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="responses"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="society"/><title type='text'>Janis, una historia verdadera</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Miami, 12.29.1968&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;El pelo, aunque finito, le pasaba los hombros. A su papá, le fastidiaba. Se miró por última vez en el espejo, los pantalones anchos de rayas anchas, la camisa con flores chiquitas, el bigote impecablemente desprolijo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Metió la mano en el bolsillo para cerciorarse de que los tickets estaban ahí, junto con los cuarenta dólares (una pequeña fortuna), la licencia de conducir y las gotas secas de LSD que luego compartiría con su chica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Subió al auto brillante después del lavado minucioso de la tarde, pasó por sus amigos, su chica y sus amigas y partieron entre tragos de Coca-Cola y Jim Beam. Cuando llegaron al show, ya estaban todos bastante tomados y felices: en un par de horas, Janis Joplin endulzaría sus oídos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Jed estaba enamorado de esta mujer: representaba todo lo libre que no era de lunes a viernes, atrapado en su traje de poliéster, sonriéndole a las señoras en busca de una cocina nueva con timer; representaba imaginar a su madre (una pintora que murió de tristeza y agobio entre un matrimonio religioso, sus hijos y un mundo pacato) danzando con sus bucles rojos al viento; representaba el nuevo mundo que el imaginaba llegaría después del 70.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Se sentaron el una manta desparramada en el pasto, cerca del escenario. La cantidad de artistas del festival era numerosa y no querían perderse de nada ni a nadie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Cuando terminó el último grupo, fueron a la playa y al fin, dejaron a las chicas en sus respectivas casas. Uno de los amigos, dijo que lo habían invitado a una casa en South Miami y sin dudar, manejaron hasta allí.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Cuando llegaron, varios de los músicos que habían visto en el festival, estaban ahí, riendo, tomando, tocando música. Cantaba Janis (Joplin) entre trago y trago de su botella de Jim Beam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;A Jed le cambio la vida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Llego de regreso a su casa dos días después, cuando su padre estaba ya listo para declararlo desaparecido o mejor dicho, asesinado por esos &quot;hippies sucios&quot; que eran los amigos de su hijo y según había leído en el Miami Herald.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Jed miro a su padre, un judío que cada día mas religioso, a su madrastra con peluca y ropas largas, y vió una distancia imposible de cubrir. Como su madre, un espíritu libre, bohemia y soñadora había elegido a este hombre? En que se parecía a él, como registraba en su vida que el si era su padre y no una escapada de su madre?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Se encerró en su dormitorio, con lapicera en mano y cuaderno de espiral, comenzó a delinear un plan de acción, un plan para escapar a esa rutina que lo aplastaba, viajar por el país, conocer gente interesante y no mirar atrás.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Lo primero era encontrar los recursos económicos para mantenerse y no depender ni de la habitación que su padre le proveía y cuyo precio era alto. Tenia la herencia de su abuela y el seguro que le había dejado su madre: le alcanzaba para un bus para mover músicos de un a ciudad a otra con la mitad e invertir el resto, en la bolsa para que creciera su retiro. Le resultaba raro pensar en retiro, pero debía enfocase si quería dejar de trabajar para los 45.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Compro el bus a uno que se había gastado todo en drogas. Era un vehículo en muy buen estado, plateado y con bastante confort, por el que podría cobrar sumas interesantes, sin un esfuerzo enorme.&amp;nbsp;Y con bastante diversión.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Los primeros años, para Jed, todo fue nuevo: las ciudades, los caminos, las gentes. Pero poco a poco, la novedad se fue acabando y comenzó a sentir casi un fastidio permanente que no llegaba a definir. Estaba solo, era eso, a nadie le importaba si estaba o no, si llegaba, llamaba comía o dormía.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;En Denver, conoció a Eve Marie y se enamoro de ella. Tenia la excusa de estar contratado casi todo ese verano en la costa oeste, lo que le permitiría verla con frecuencia en la universidad. Al fin del verano, ella se graduó y regresó a su casa en Boston. Jed se percato que ella era parte de una familia muy católica, que tenia el novio para casarse y que eso, sucedería en los próximos meses, estuviera el de acuerdo o no.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/feeds/9098504344496927734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2013/02/janis-una-historia-verdadera.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/9098504344496927734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/9098504344496927734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2013/02/janis-una-historia-verdadera.html' title='Janis, una historia verdadera'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12548713958464458613</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826029393398350326.post-7905342904435349006</id><published>2012-11-06T19:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-11-06T19:31:52.632-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="felicidad"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="genral interest"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="meditacion"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="meditation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="people"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="planet"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="response"/><title type='text'>Voting day is always of high emotion and expectation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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George Harrison started singing &quot;Here comes the sun&quot; at barely 5:58 am. The sky was dark still, with some clouds, however a ray of sun was shining like a pond of gold over our Maule Lake. &amp;nbsp;Just some time to put ourselves in decent condition and run out of the door with just a cup of tea, at 6:20 am. &amp;nbsp;The route was short and I was going at that voting location for the first time. There was no doubt of the direction to follow: many people walking fast to their civic duty.&lt;/div&gt;
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We waited sitting in a huge room filled of people, some overflow standing up. Every time one line was called, we moved one line up. It was quite organized, except for a few cheaters, but that is human nature, isn&#39;t it? &amp;nbsp;Many different people, all with one mission.&lt;br /&gt;
To me, it is a very special duty. The first time I voted in Argentina, I was 19 and it was the first election after some dark dictatorial years (1976-1983). We had many conversations with my dad about politics and prepared votes to mail, and since, it is engraved on me: Voting is a privilege of the free countries and I love it!&lt;br /&gt;
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The actual voting room was crowed and small, with no space for the secrecy of the vote.&lt;br /&gt;
The first table, was the kingdom of three ladies assigned a few letters of the alphabet each to check that you were you and&amp;nbsp;provided the first part of the process.&lt;br /&gt;
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Then, we were directed to a second line, this time with two ladies, giving us the green envelope and explaining how to fill up the bubbles with your vote.&lt;br /&gt;
Five pages, both sides!&amp;nbsp;In our county, the vote is in English, Spanish and Haitian Créole.&lt;br /&gt;
Five pages containing 11 amendments to the State Constitution to which I voted no: I did not understand a word of the legal language, written with many many double negatives and a lot of mystery.&lt;br /&gt;
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I dedicated my time (with the help of the printed ballot that came with the paper on Sunday) to fill every single dot with all the elected positions, retaining judges (I do not like to vote for judges), amendments, and county requests.&lt;br /&gt;
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I took some time, with my memory aid, which during an exam would be considered cheating! And I made a mistake on page 4. &amp;nbsp;So, I went back to the third lady of the second table, who was the one to rescue the ones like me, that marked the wring bubble.&lt;br /&gt;
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No secret here my friends: we were one on top of the other. &amp;nbsp;In our county, Miami-Dade, Florida, we had some issues. The early voting days were drastically cut and only 20 places were open for 1.2 million people registered to vote.&lt;br /&gt;
I would suggest, for the next time, that as we need to fill bubbles, perhaps it is faster if they offer Sharpies instead of the classic pens (which by the way, were insufficient);&amp;nbsp;a clear language and short proposals to vote for, since some of the items to vote were over 600 words; more scanners.&lt;br /&gt;
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There were only 3 scanners, that needed to be feed one page at the time or they would freeze.&lt;br /&gt;
At the beginning, only two were working until a technician from a private company (the machines belong to private companies) arrived to fix it.&lt;br /&gt;
All the operation running with with 9 people: two organizing voters, three at the name table, three providing the votes (first set and mistakes replacement pages) and one boss.&lt;br /&gt;
Only one person to observer of the operation.&lt;br /&gt;
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With a sleepy face and no sun glasses to hide, once again we made it: we voted. &amp;nbsp;Now, to wait for the results and hope for the best 4 years to come, whoever is the winner.&lt;br /&gt;
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En una de esas raras oportunidades de la vida, ayer participe del proceso de mediación, en parte mandado por la corte y por otra parte, mandado por el sentido común y por la cuenta de banco. &lt;br /&gt;
Los abogados, como en la película de Woody Allen en la que los personajes descienden al infierno, aprovechan de nuestros conflictos irresolubles. Al fin, se resuelven y todos creen salir ganando. Las diferencias en muchas de las ocasiones podrían resolverse tranquilamente con solo dejar el ego de lado y escuchar al otro. Pero no...&lt;br /&gt;
Éramos cinco personas de mi comunidad mas tres abogados que nos representaban, juntos por cuatro horas y media, lo que creo no sucedera nunca mass en la vida. &lt;br /&gt;
Las abogadas mediadora y observadora se paseaban de una sala a la otra, llevando la opinión del otro grupo, tratando debe hacernos llegar a un compromiso, que venimos evitando desde hace casi tres años.  &lt;br /&gt;
En la otra sala, en el lado opuesto de las oficinas, estaba el otro grupo compuesto por un octogenario y su hijo cincuentón (colorado y de nariz fruncida) acompañados por un abogado con cabeza de rulos y corbata torcida.  &lt;br /&gt;
La introducción de nuestros abogados incluyeron algún vocabulario legal, pero no exageraron, por suerte para nosotros. El joven de rulos, demostró en cambio, que había pasado sus clases y que además, recordaba lo aprendido, con una buena dosis de soberbia.  Luego de muchas idas y venidas, de argumentos ridículos y otros no tanto, llegamos a un acuerdo, y a un estado de cansancio mental inesperado.  &lt;br /&gt;
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Llegamos a esta mediación porque una de la s partes pensó que era mas razonable discutir y pagar a los abogados en lugar de buscar un punto medio, lo que el Dalai Lama llama &quot;el camino del medio&quot;, en el cual encontrarnos y salir mas o menos contentos todos. &lt;br /&gt;
Y casi 36 meses mas tarde salimos de la mediación con el mismo resultado. &lt;br /&gt;
Me pregunto entonces si no será mas fácil aprender de un vz por todas que la confrontación y la discusión, son la solución. No creo, en ninguna caso que matar al enemigo sea la mejor táctica. &lt;br /&gt;
Siempre la mejor es la de escuchar al otro y llegar, si, al punto medio. &lt;br /&gt;
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</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/feeds/2249629935643879343/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2012/06/mediacion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/2249629935643879343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/2249629935643879343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2012/06/mediacion.html' title='Mediación'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12548713958464458613</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826029393398350326.post-1833206420975271984</id><published>2012-05-07T17:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2012-08-28T08:29:06.099-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="children"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Dharma"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="meditation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="parenting"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="who you really are"/><title type='text'>Dharma or being lost?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.manchesterbuddhistcentre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/saul_bud_4.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;http://www.manchesterbuddhistcentre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/saul_bud_4.jpg&quot; width=&quot;243&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Due to the conversation around meditation in an 8 year child with my brother, I have even more thoughts, this time for parents and adults in contact with children… Oh My!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;It seams that sometime, when I was a child, I approached my mom and asked -Mom, why A (I was learning to handwrite) is round with a little tail on the side?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Imagine the surprise of a mother busy preparing diner before leaving for her teaching job at night! She explained the issue of the conventions and tried to calm my curiosity, to go back and concentrate on her tasks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;But that was not the end of my interest for letters: I learn to read and write. Reading was and still is my refuge and escape from the world. And writing became a very important part of my life, to which I dedicate more and more time, because it make me happy. Does it sound a bit &lt;i&gt;telenovela? &lt;/i&gt;It doesn’t matter, it is what it is. I make me so happy, that I loose sense of time!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;When &lt;i&gt;you rassamble to yourself, you are happier &lt;/i&gt;because you are being who you really want to be, accomplishing your mission in this life, your Dharma, your purpose, whatever name you choose. And it is inside, it is a look to the most intimate and profound of yourself; when I write and communicate spiritual matters I have no doubts: I feel joyous, and there is no time nor space. It is then, when I know that it make me fell great, it is for me.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;But let’s go back to my 8 year niece and her dad who told me that it was more important for her to play than meditate. It is clear that playing is super important, that it develops creativity, helps in the resolution of problems and venting frustrations, and also, for a bit, alleviates the parents from the infinite task of entertaining.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;However, observing many adults around who are lost in their lives, I am more and more convinced that meditation helps us being in contact with who we really are and to do what makes us happy. Like my friend whose teacher at the end of elementary school, said as hopeful farewell -When you publish your first book, I hope you remember me and send me a copy-. And she went on in life to work as secretary and after many many years, now she writes every day, and she is so good! Or like that young man who never spoke about his passion for music, and has a business related to motorcycles and one day at 40, he realized that his life had no reason, that his passion is music and he is a talented self-taught. Or myself, who had always a passion for writing but my shyness stopped me; more than shyness, the ruthless critique, the unloving comment.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Fourteen years ago, I moved to another country and a few months later my world crumbled and I ended up in pieces. meditation as was vital as respiration, to go back and re-acquaint myself, to be back to be who I am, no shyness, no anguish, no fear of lack of love.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;This is why, because none of us who has children around -your own children, nieces and nephews, our friends‘ and neighbour children, want to see them loose their path before starting the journey; we all want for them to be the best of the best of the best they can be, to rassamble to themselves and for them to be simply happy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Meditation put them in contact with themselves, with their true essence, with their own purpose, Dharma, to look inside in a world full of external distractions and manipulative messages. It takes only 5 minutes morning and night, in silence, quiet. It’s not a lot and it helps so much! From the relationship with parents to school grades, to creativity, everything improves.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Meditation is the best gift we can offer them: to find out who they really are and go through life with courage and joy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.manchesterbuddhistcentre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/saul_bud_4.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;http://www.manchesterbuddhistcentre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/saul_bud_4.jpg&quot; title=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;243&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;A raíz de la conversación que se ha creado con mi hermano en torno a la meditación en una nena de 8 años, tengo aun más reflexiones, esta vez para padres y adultos en contacto con los chicos... Ay caramba!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Parece que cierta vez, cuando era muy chiquita, un día me acerqué a mi mamá y le pregunté -¿Ma, por qué la A (cursiva que estaba entonces aprendiendo) es redondita con una colita?-.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;¡Imaginen la sorpresa de una mamá ocupada en preparar la cena antes de ir a enseñar por la noche, lo que por entonces era su trabajo! Me explicó lo de las convenciones y trato de calmar mi curiosidad, para poder concentrarse en sus tareas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Pero es no fue el fin de mi interés por las letras: empecé a aprender a leer y a escribir. Leer fue y es mi refugio y escape del mundo. Y escribir se convirtió en una parte importantísima de mi vida, aunque no es sino hasta ahora que dedico más y más tiempo, porque me hace muy feliz. ¿Te suena un poco telenovelezco? No importa, es así.&amp;nbsp;¡Me hace tan feliz, que pierdo noción del tiempo!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Cuando &lt;i&gt;una se parece más a si misma, una es mas feliz&lt;/i&gt; porque está siendo quien uno quiere ser, esta cumpliendo con su misión en esta vida, con su Dharma, con su propósito, como quieras llamarlo. Y esta adentro, es una mirada hacia lo más íntimo y profundo de uno mismo; cuando escribo y cuando comunico sobre temas espirituales, no tengo dudas, me siento en plena felicidad y no existen tiempo ni espacio. Es entonces que sé, que no hay dudas que eso que me hace sentir bien, es para mi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Pero volvamos a mi sobrina de 8 años y a su papá que me dijo que era más importante para ella jugar que meditar. Es evidente que jugar es súper importante, que desarrolla la creatividad, que le ayuda a resolver problemas y a ventilar sus frustraciones y también, por un rato, alivia a los padres de tener que entretenerlos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Sin embargo, observando a tantos adultos a mi alrededor que se han extraviado en la vida, me convenzo cada día mas de que la meditación, nos ayuda a estar en contacto con quienes realmente somos y hacer lo que realmente nos hace felices. Como mi amiga que fue despedida por su maestra 7mo grado con un ilusionado: -Cuando publiques tu primer libro, espero que te acuerdes de mi y me lo mandes-, pero ella, salió a la vida a trabajar de secretaria y después de muchísimos años se dedica a escribir ¡y qué bien lo hace! O como este muchacho que nunca dijo de su pasión por la música y se dedicó a un negocio relacionado con las motos, y a los 40, se dio cuenta de que su vida iba sin razón ni destino, de que su pasión es la música y es un talentoso autodidacta. O yo, sin ir más lejos, que siempre tuve pasión por escribir, pero me daba enorme pudor la mirada del otro; más que la mirada, la crítica, el desamor del otro.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Hace 14 años, me mudé de país y pocos meses después, mi vida se derrumbó y quedé hecha escombros. La meditación fue tan vital como la respiración, para volver a reconocer-me, para volver a ser quien soy, sin pudores, sin angustias, sin miedo al desamor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Por eso, porque ninguno de nosotros que tiene chicos alrededor, sean hijos, sobrinas, sobrinos adoptados en amor, los hijos de los amigos y vecinos, quiere ver que esos chicos se pierdan antes de empezar el camino; todos queremos que sean lo mejor de lo mejor de lo mejor que puedan ser, que se parezcan a si mismos y que sean, simplemente, felices.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;La meditación los hace entrar en contacto consigo mismos, con su verdadera esencia y su verdadera misión, Dharma, mirar hacia adentro en un mundo lleno de distracciones externas y mensajes manipuladores. Toma 5 minutos a la mañana y cinco a la noche, en silencio, quieto. ¡No es mucho, y ayuda tanto! Desde la relación con los padres, hasta las calificaciones escolares, la creatividad, mejora todo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;La meditación es el mejor regalo que podemos ofrecerles: encontrar quienes realmente son y lanzarse a la vida con coraje y alegría.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://images.elephantjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/OmSymbol.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;http://images.elephantjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/OmSymbol.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mi sobrina esta a unos días de cumplir 8. Hoy, estábamos hablando via Skype con imágen, cuando me preguntó que haíia hecho a la mañana. Ella estaba aun en pijamas, mi chiquita llena de energía. Le contesté que había ido a mi clase de yoga y ella me pidió hacer yoga virtual con ella.&lt;br /&gt;
Perro para arriba, perro para abajo, plancha lateral modificada, manteniendo la seguridad: estaba haciendo yoga sobre la cama para verme mejor en la pantalla. Es mi segunda sobrina interesada en el yoga, ¡qué alegría!&lt;br /&gt;
Sin preguntar nada, cuando terminamos nuestra sesión de 15 minutos, se sentó con las piernas cruzadas, una mano en cada rodilla y comenzó a cantar OM, para mi gran sorpresa. Es una nena especial, una audaz, que a los 3 años pidió ir a clases de Kung Fu no disponibles para chicos tan chiquitos y que terminó en clases de Tae Kwon Do, que aún adora. Dicidí entonces, guiarla en cómo sentarse -con la pierna derecha siempre adelante de la izquierda-, con la espalda derecha -no mencioné la alineación de los chakras-, una mano en cada rodilla y como cantar -sacando el A-O-M desde la barriga-. Entendió y ejecutó un hermoso trio de OM. Concluimos en sentarse a meditar y dejar pasar los pensamientos como una hoja en el viento. Le encantó.&lt;br /&gt;
Unos 15 minutos más tarde, de tanto en tanto cantaba su OM hasta el punto de poner a su papá (mi hermano) un poquito nervioso. Sí, yo soy la tía que tiene ideas extrañas, que propone temas diferentes. La que dejó su país y su familia para vivir en un lugar diferente, la que viaja cada vez que puede, la que aprendió por el método difícil y la que se redimió através de la meditación y el descubrimiento de sí misma.&lt;br /&gt;
Pero esta vez ¿qué era lo correcto hacer? ¿Seguir el deseo del alma incontaminada de 8 años o los preconceptos de su padre? Perdón hermano mío, te quiero siempre.&lt;br /&gt;
Elegí a mi sobrina y los deseos de su corazón y estaré aquí para ayudarla a tener mucha más conciencia y actuar con mucha mas atención.&lt;br /&gt;
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My niece is a few days shy from 8. Today, we were chatting over Skype with image when she asked me what I was doing during the morning. She was still in pijamas, my little bundle of energy. I told her that I went to my yoga class and she asked to do some virtual yoga with her.&lt;br /&gt;
A up-dog, a down dog, modified plank and some others asanas, keeping her safe: she was doing yoga on top of her bed, so she could see me better on the screen. She is the second niece who is interested in yoga,what a joy!&lt;br /&gt;
Without asking for anything else, when we finished our 15 minutes session, she sat cross legged, placed one hand on each knee and started chanting OM, to my utter surprise. She is a special girl, a fearless girl, who at 3 asked to be taken to Kung Fu classes and not being available for such small children, she ended in a Tae Kwon Do class and still loves it.&lt;br /&gt;
I decided to give her some tips on how to sit -right leg in front of the left-, strait back -did not mentioned the alignment of the chakras-, one hand on each knee and how to chant -raising the A-O-M sound from the belly-. She understood and performed a beautiful trio of OM. We concluded with the idea of sitting to meditate and let the thoughts pass like a leaf blown by the wind. She love it.&lt;br /&gt;
Some 15 minutes later, randomly, she sang her OM to the point of making her father (my brother) a little nervous.&lt;br /&gt;
Yes, I am the aunt who always has strange ideas, raises different issues. The one who left her country and family to live in a different place, who travel every time it&#39;s possible, the one who learn the hard way and redemed trough meditation and self discovery.&lt;br /&gt;
But this time, what was the right thing to do? Follow the soul desire of an uncontaminated 8 year old or the full of preconceptions of the father?&amp;nbsp;Sorry brother, always love you.&lt;br /&gt;
I choose my niece and her heart&#39;s desire and I will be there to help her to have a much easier awareness of herself and be more mindful.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/feeds/8708736135460413993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2012/04/skype-meditation-with-my-niece.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/8708736135460413993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/8708736135460413993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2012/04/skype-meditation-with-my-niece.html' title='Skype meditation with my niece'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12548713958464458613</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826029393398350326.post-2101601531099481822</id><published>2012-04-25T17:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2012-04-25T17:20:39.921-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="amor"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="autoayuda"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="general interest"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="hacerse cargo"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="people"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="psicologia"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="responses"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="self help"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="spirituality"/><title type='text'>¿Saltas en el aceite caliente o tenés la sartén por el mango?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
Hace unos días, alguien a quien quiero mucho, comento que leía un blog en el que la escritora, casi constantemente esta en contra, enfadada, rezongando.&lt;br /&gt;
Me acordé de una chica que hacia lo mismo: YO.&lt;br /&gt;
Durante muchos años, para mi, la vida era &quot;el mundo contra mi&quot;. Estaba siempre disconforme, enojada, intolerante,casi podría decir que culpando al otro por mi incomodidad interna y mi falta de dirección. Pensaba que si no me confrontaba con todo, si conformaba fácilmente, me perdería en los demás.&lt;br /&gt;
Hasta que debido a una circunstancia tan fuerte como una ruptura amorosa, tuve que parara, dejar de mirar para afuera y mirar para adentro.&lt;br /&gt;
Para mi gran sorpresa, resultó que en lugar de perderme, empecé a encontrar razones para ser, para sentirme feliz, sin tener que estar en contra, que la verdad, es que cada uno hace lo mejor que puede en las circunstancias que esta y con los conocimientos que tiene en ese momento. Si supiese como hacerlo mejor, ¡lo haría! ... ¿Quién no?&lt;br /&gt;
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En fin, es muy fácil estar enemistado con todo en lugar de estar en armonía con uno y con los demás. ¿Por qué? &amp;nbsp;Porque implica que uno se tiene que hacer cargo de su vida, sin mas excusas, ni peros. Y eso, es trabajo, que ciertamente no significa claudicar, ni rendirse, no dejar de ser ese ser único, (que somos en todos los casos), sino justamente lo contrario.&lt;br /&gt;
En una vieja película de Almodóbar, uno de los personajes decía:&amp;nbsp;&quot;Una es más feliz cuanto más se parece a si misma&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
¡Ese es el secreto! Quien disciente conmigo, sólo ve las cosas diferente y... ¡¿qué importa?!&amp;nbsp;Me enseña en que dirección no quiero ir. &lt;br /&gt;
La pregunta del día es:&lt;br /&gt;
¿Estas saltando en el aceite caliente o tenés la sartén por el mango? &lt;br /&gt;
O dicho de otra forma:&lt;br /&gt;
¿Hay alguien que controla tus emociones y reacciones o tenés control de la situación y respondés?&lt;br /&gt;
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Son los días grises más invitantes a mirar para adentro? Será que el sol nos distrae, con su luz, la belleza y el brillo que provoca en todo y todos?
Parecen preguntas irrelevantes pero no lo son. Los días de sol, nos dan ganas de salir de casa, contemplar la naturaleza, tirarnos en la playa o caminar por el bosque. Pero ciertamente no nos invitan a pensarnos, a ver dónde estamos y a dónde vamos. 
Hoy, el día es gris y me invita una vez más (demasiado seguido en los últimos 10) a mirar que está pasado en mí, como me conecto o no con mi alma. 
Aunque la luz del día, gris no muy oscuro, es realmente fabulosa!
Mi luz también es fabulosa pero, la veo bien? Creo que, si hoy mi visión esta un poco nublada, y me tranquiliza saber que no será&lt;br /&gt;
asi para siempre. Que alivio! 
La belleza de mi interior es un reflejo de la belleza del universo.&lt;/div&gt;
</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/feeds/6432438799294958148/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2012/02/nubes-no-nubarrones.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/6432438799294958148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/6432438799294958148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2012/02/nubes-no-nubarrones.html' title='Nubes, no nubarrones'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12548713958464458613</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Z9CsC2GXvTUkWieeBDSwmU3htIVAvYnZuMj3PDVMkyu18ysfJCREhqfUdp9p6rqvpu81lJ4zUtGZsUxmaKwInP8wMnOmAeqzhhAKK_Lf8oiX39sVY8bFI1yHZoAx9AF6n-nWobW7fE8/s72-c/IMG02949.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>North Miami Beach, FL 33160, USA</georss:featurename><georss:point>25.9347377 -80.1372757</georss:point><georss:box>25.8776197 -80.2162397 25.9918557 -80.0583117</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826029393398350326.post-5442972343316381989</id><published>2012-01-31T16:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T16:45:16.181-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="inner work"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="planet"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="self help"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="society"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="spirituality"/><title type='text'>El Dragon y yo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
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Me quedé pensando con respecto a las elecciones y cómo las llevamos en nuestra vida. 
Los chinos usan la figura del Dragón para explicar algunas cosas y a mí, me gusta mucho. En las figuras mas tradicionales, el Dragón en  una mano tiene una perla que nos ofrece. Esta perla que significa la sabiduria, el conocimiento universal, algunos le llaman los secretos del universo o divinos (usen el que mas les guste). La perla de las opciones infinitas. Luego esta en nosotros: qué elección tomamos con lo que el Dragón nos ofrece. 
Mi psicólogo, Daniel, me repitió infinita cantidad de veces hasta que un día hizo click en mi cabeza &quot;no es lo que te pasa, sino que haces con ello&quot;. Y es la misma metáfora del Dragón. 
Por qué? Porque uno de los regalos mas grandes que tenemos es el poder de elección. Algunos hablan de la elección condicionada por las circunstancias. Claro! Siempre hay circunstancias que nos llevaron a donde estamos. Y desde es nuevo lugar, vamos a escoger un nuevo camino a seguir y aunque quisiéramos, no podemos detenernos, y de eso, ya escribieron desde el griego Heráclito en adelante, muchisimos.
Entonces, un poco me turba esta posición -más femenina que masculina- de &quot;pobrecito yo que no tuve opciones y la vida me llevó así y buéh... (suspiro) acá me ves&quot;.  Es lo que yo llamo sentarse en el pitty-pot. Que esta bien; por un ratititto, unas lagrimas secadas por unos pañuelitos de papel y luego... la vida sigue, nos dé la gana de verlo o no. 
A qué voy? Todas las elecciones que hicimos en nuestra vida, son las que nos llevan a ser quienes somos hoy, con lo que nos gusta y con lo que no nos gusta. Somos responsables de lo que hicimos, aunque algunas cosas nos avergüencen un poco (o mucho), pero qué importa!  Usemos el infinito amor que podemos tener por si mismos para decirnos &quot;esta bien, elegiste lo que elegiste, porque pensaste que era lo mejor para vos&quot; (o hay alguien que piense que eligió a propósito para hacerse mal??).
Aprendamos de lo que elegimos y no nos gustó, busquemos como darle la vuelta y hacer cosas que nos hagan mas felices, para uno mismo, no para la pareja, la familia, las amigas y amigos, no para los hijos, (que un día, sin mirar atrás, agarran la valija y se van, igual que hicimos nosotros, no hay diferencia).
Aprendamos de lo que sí nos gustó para que nos de fuerza para cambiar la dirección en que vamos. Mi amiga Isa siempre quiso escribir, pero la vida la llevo por otros caminos, hasta hace unos años atrás, cuando comenzó a escribir nuevamente, justo en el momento en que muchos pensarían que ya su vida esta hecha. Que bobería! El día que estamos terminados es el dia que nos vamos a tomar el té con San Pedro. Estiramos la pata, bah. 
Ayer, habló de su felicidad de haber puesto su primer e-book en Amazon. Es decir, se transformó y ahora es una versión mejor de si misma.
Miremos a esa energía de lo que no nos satisface completamente y -en lugar de tirarla al tacho- transformemosla en el combustible para hacer lo que nos haga felices y nos haga sentir que caminamos por las nubes de plenitud. 
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I asked for and I&#39;ve got it. And now?&lt;br /&gt;Well, yesterday I realised that all around me is changing, that the safe calm environment is changing and I felt threaten. My question is why I feel threaten.&lt;br /&gt;As the afternoon turned into night, I thought about who and what I want to have in my life: people who want&amp;nbsp;to grow spiritually and have a great life.&lt;br /&gt;My sadness came when I discovered that some of these persons are not willing to evolve and move their&amp;nbsp;life towards a much better place. However, I am not going back, I will say good bye without regrets.&lt;br /&gt;Do you find that it sounds a little selfish? No, I perceive my world from my person, as you do from yours. And we must, yes must, aspire only to the best for our life.&lt;br /&gt;A dozen of years ago, I had a huge heart brake. I was far from my family, new in town, I felt really alone. For the longest time I was not facing the issues in my life, I was, how to say... distracted from myself. The price was very high: I sank into a great depression. One day I became aware that I was not&amp;nbsp;able to feel better without help.&lt;br /&gt;I look for a psychologist to help me, I started meditating, reading and writing. Working on myself, seriously, as if I worked for a salary. In fact, much more. I poured my heart into a notebook, I cryed until I had no more tears. I asked why me and finally, I surrendered.&lt;br /&gt;A couple of months later, I woke up, and I was feeling fine, I was not depressed.&lt;br /&gt;Some days were better than others and then the good ones overpowered the bad ones and now, the great majority are great days, from beginig to end.&lt;br /&gt;I am telling you about&amp;nbsp;this, because I felt threatened: all those good days could be in jepardy. No, it was the memory of what it was.&lt;br /&gt;A deep breath revealed to me that it is my choice, every day how I feel, with whom I share my life, what kind of awareness, compassion, love I put our in the world is what I am willing to have in my life. Like looking at myself in a mirror: I chose to look at the good, peace, joy and love.&lt;br /&gt;Who wants to join me in this journey?&lt;/div&gt;
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Sin embargo, nosotros los escritores, no caemos en esta categoria. &amp;nbsp;Hoy, encontre un aviso de alguien que ciertamente no conoce las artes de la pluma y ofrecia la generosa suma de 1/2 centavo por palabra, en articulos de 1000 palabras.&lt;br /&gt;
Hagamos gimnasia. &amp;nbsp;En el mejor de los dias, en el que las musas se sentaron en el borde del escritorio, mil palabras bien escritas y publicables, nos llevaran unas tres horas. Mas o menos. &amp;nbsp;Es decir que los 5 dolares dividido las tres horas es algo como 1 dolar 66 centavos por hora.&lt;br /&gt;
Claro esta. &amp;nbsp;Los escritores no tienen que pagar la electricidad que alimenta la computadora, porque despues de todo, la compañia electrica comprende que somos bohemios y asi de locos lo hacemos por el amor y la busqueda de la frase perfecta...&lt;br /&gt;
No escriban &amp;nbsp;por poco o misero dinero&amp;nbsp;para quien no puede hacerlo. &amp;nbsp;Si no sabe y no paga, que se las arregle solito.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/feeds/9057896204673212571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2010/02/se-busca-escritor-sin-necesidades.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/9057896204673212571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/9057896204673212571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2010/02/se-busca-escritor-sin-necesidades.html' title='Se busca escritor sin necesidades mundanas'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12548713958464458613</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826029393398350326.post-5847411569015609901</id><published>2009-12-17T11:17:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T23:35:01.533-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Tres tiempos, cuento corto.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;&quot;&gt;I.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Cuando la luz roja lo paró, Hugo recordó una de sus actividades favoritas: la contemplación.&amp;nbsp; Se escapó del camino y vió las frutas anaranjado claro de la palmera incrustadas contra el cielo absolutamente celeste.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Los bocinazos lo regresaron a la realidad.&amp;nbsp; Manejaba despacio, el aire estaba agradable después de un verano larguísimo y quería desconectarse de la semana de trabajo feroz. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Hugo, un dedicado psicoanalista, invertía sus días a sus pacientes, a entrenar a recién llegados a la profesión y a estudiar para de mejorar sus horizontes profesionales.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;A las ocho de la noche estaba invitado a la cena mensual en casa de Amir y Lila.&amp;nbsp; No sentía muchas ganas de ir, pero sabia que el no hacerlo seria un error.&amp;nbsp; La hospitalidad de los dueños de casa era famosa y las veladas se prolongaban por largas horas.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Tomó una siesta.&amp;nbsp; Tuvo sueños confusos que lo intrigaron más que alterarlo, aunque no eran nada específico.&amp;nbsp; Se duchó con desgano, rápidamente eligió una camisa de lino blanca, jeans negros y mocasines de gamuza marrón.&amp;nbsp; Se sentó en el sillón y el cuero suave lo abrazó.&amp;nbsp; Las dudas lo atacaron otra vez, ¿debía ir a la cena o quedarse en casa a mirar en dvd su serie favorita?&amp;nbsp; Que tentación, pensó, ahora que estoy relajado tengo menos ganas de salir que antes.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Poco a poco fue removiéndose del sillón.&amp;nbsp; A Hugo le gustaba mucho quedarse solo, estaba con gente todo el día y muchas veces los amigos sentían compulsión por contarle sus penurias en busca de una receta mágica.&amp;nbsp; Los ignoraría.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;El entusiasmo de Emma cada primer viernes del mes era notable.&amp;nbsp; En su oficina todos sabían que ella se iría a las 3 y media.&amp;nbsp; Prefería trabajar un rato más los otros días de la semana para compensar, aunque le sobraba el tiempo.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Se hizo peinar en la peluquería y se sorprendió regalándose un masaje.&amp;nbsp; No estaba en plan de conocer a nadie. Para ella los hombres se habían convertido en seres asexuados, con una opinión opuesta, les decía a sus amigas cuando querían arreglarle una cita a ciegas.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;A las seis y cuarto se paró frente a su línea de vestidos colgados en perchas cubiertas de seda blanca.&amp;nbsp; Se probó tres.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;– Este.-dijo al mirarse.-&amp;nbsp; Refleja seguridad y simpatía, eso me gusta.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Y eligió el negro que complementó con un collar de consistentes piezas de cristal de Murano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Entre plato y plato acomodado en la mesa, Lila y Emma rieron y bromearon como cuando eran chicas.&amp;nbsp; Asi se sentían, no creían que el tiempo pasase, solo su amistad se agrandaba.&amp;nbsp; Acomodaron flores y anillos hechos de ramas de pino enroscados en las servilletas sobre el mantel de hilo blanco.&amp;nbsp; Repartieron los asientos de los invitados y entre chisme y risa, se les terminó una botellita de vino.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;A la hora de la cena, Emma estaba al lado de Aníbal quién atraído por los ojos verdes del rubio al otro lado de la mesa, le cambio el lugar a Hugo quien terminó sentado al lado de Emma.&amp;nbsp; Todos la encontraban atractiva, pero él nunca la había notado.&amp;nbsp; No en particular, al menos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Resonó un&amp;nbsp; - Humm... seguido de silencio y Amir supo que la noche seria un éxito.&amp;nbsp; Los comentarios sobre los platos le dieron pie a Hugo para entablar conversación con Emma y a ella, para hacer bromas con y sobre él.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- ¿Por qué tantas bromas sobre mi? -Se intrigó Hugo. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Así soy yo, la vida es para disfrutarla, ¿no te parece? -replicó Emma con una seria cara risueña.&amp;nbsp; -El humor y la sensibilidad, son rasgos que adoro en un hombre, -continuó con sus ojos clavados en los de el.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Hugo se sintió un intimidado.&amp;nbsp; Las mujeres fuertes, como todas las de su familia, le resultaban escalofriantemente irresistibles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Es cierto, contestó Hugo con voz clara y firme y no mostró que tenía un poco de miedo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Los postres siempre eran servidos en el jardín y Hugo la perdió de vista.&amp;nbsp; Al principio no se preocupó&amp;nbsp; pero poco a poco, se fue inquietando y no entendía bien por qué. &amp;nbsp; Casi al final de la noche, la vió contando una historia, y los ojos y barrigas de todos estaban contraídos por la risa que les provocaba Emma.&amp;nbsp; Cuando terminó el cuento, los escuchas se dispersaron y Hugo aprovechó el espacio.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Me perdí parte del cuento, pero no pude contener la risa al final.&amp;nbsp; -Su voz estaba viva, observó&amp;nbsp; y a Hugo eso le gustó.&amp;nbsp; - ¿Me contarías más cuentos mañana en un picnic en la playa?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Es mi ocupación favorita, aceptó.&amp;nbsp; Esta noche sos objeto de mis bromas porque me enamoré de vos solo al verte, expresó con desparpajo y asombro de sus palabras y casi, por un momento, Emma se arrepintió.&amp;nbsp; Hizo un gesto como de espantar mosquitos, tratando de que esa horrenda idea no le picara nuevamente.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Las palabras de Emma lo abrumaron y se sonrojó sin que se notase : su piel bronceada hacia un buen trabajo escondiendo la vergüenza.&amp;nbsp; La noche se fue disolviendo al igual que los invitados.&amp;nbsp; Caminaron juntos hasta el auto y Emma lo despidió con un diminuto y suave beso en la mejilla izquierda. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Te llamo a la tarde, -fueron las palabras que volaron mientras arrancó el auto y desapareció.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;El vestido de Emma cayó al piso y se puso el camisón.&amp;nbsp; Al igual que el vestido en el piso, Emma cayó en la cama y se durmió inmediatamente pensando cuanta razón tenia su papa que le repetía hasta el cansancio - la vida te da sorpresas todo el tiempo, hija.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Hugo, que después de meditar siempre dormía como una roca cansada, no pudo cerrar los ojos.&amp;nbsp; Y a las siete de la mañana se fue a caminar a la playa.&amp;nbsp; El día seria largo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;II.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Habló con Emma pasado el medio día y ella iría a su casa: él vivía en un departamento sobre la playa.&amp;nbsp; Hacía calor.&amp;nbsp; La brisa de mar repartía humedad, haciendo el fin de la tarde más respirable aunque el agua aún conservaba una temperatura caribeña.&amp;nbsp; El mar empezaba a escupir una luna embarazada.&amp;nbsp; Hugo pensó detalladamente en que pondría en la canasta de picnic.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;El servicio de comidas que alimentaba a Hugo, llegó un poco antes de las ocho, con dos platos de ensalada, salmón y cous-cous. &amp;nbsp; Ya tenía casi todo lo necesario, sólo faltaba sacar de la bodega una botella de vino merlot de California.&amp;nbsp; Comenzaría invitándole queso y galletitas crocantes con pimienta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Acomodó su pelo y se puso una colonia de verano contemplandose en el espejo, viéndose tan nervioso como la primera vez y soltó una carcajada. &amp;nbsp; Abrió la puerta y salió con paso firme, pero se dio cuenta de que no tenia que ir a ninguna parte.&amp;nbsp; Si el salía a su encuentro, ¿ella llegaría mas rápido?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Emma sabia que la cita sería al aire libre, asi es que eligió un vestido de hilo color coral, un poco largo, su collar de madreperla y espadrilles con escueta capellada de cuero.&amp;nbsp; El aroma del perfume de jazmines era perfecto para una noche de fin del verano. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Sin segundos compromisos para ninguno de los dos, remarcó dos veces Emma cuando hablaron por teléfono.&amp;nbsp; - Acepto, porque después de todo, hay que comer- exclamó y creyó que sonaba patética. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- Perfecto, -dijo Hugo sin creer su única palabra. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;A él le rugía el estómago con facilidad.&amp;nbsp; Abrió una botella de agua con gas, para aplacar el hambre, un truco que funcionaba bastante bien. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Cuando el conserje llamó para avisarle que Emma había llegado, se le pasó el hambre inmediatamente. &amp;nbsp; Miró las estrellas apenas visibles y lamentó las luces de la ciudad.&amp;nbsp; Pensó en su idea de niño de hacer apagar todas las luces en noches de luna llena, para dedicarla a contemplar.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Hugo abrió la puerta.&amp;nbsp; Emma notó pelo rubio de él brillando en la noche. Se sorprendió que fuese un hombre de bermudas y descalzo. Ella lo tenía clasificado como un hombre de ropa de deporte o pantalones largos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- ¿Te ofrezco una copa de vino y unos quesitos antes de que bajemos a la playa?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Preferiría un Tom Collins, como lo toma Thomas Hudson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Vas a tener que ayudarme, porque no tengo idea de quién es Thomas Hudson, -dejó escapar Hugo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Es mi pintor favorito de Islas en el golfo, ¿lo leíste? … Hemingway. -La cara de Hugo le provocó risa, mientras se acercaba al bar de la cocina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- No leo novelas, -dijo Hugo y a fin de evitar mas preguntas, prosiguió -Sólo poesía y me gusta de todo, no tengo nada favorito. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Entre galletitas y queso, Hugo se tomó media botella de vino y Emma, un sustancioso Tom Collins.&amp;nbsp; Se quedaron un rato en silencio y ninguno de los dos se sintió incómodo aunque las distancia entre sus cuerpos era a penas perceptible. &amp;nbsp; Hugo sentía el calor del brazo de Emma.&amp;nbsp; Emma el suave temblor del brazo de Hugo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Creo que sabés que soy psicoanalista, no?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Emma asintió y le contó&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Yo publico fotos y videos. -Le dijo con los ojos clavados en los de él.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Hugo trató de decir algo pero solo se le escaparon cuatro o cinco palabras, incoherentes.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Soy fotógrafa, -se esforzó ella?.- A mi lente le encanta fotografiar gente.&amp;nbsp; Tomá, -continuó ofreciéndole una bolsa de papel blanco.&amp;nbsp; - Es uno de los que publica mi empresa, -dijo al pasar. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Hugo sacó un libro y lo abrió. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- ¿Son… fotos… un poco … cómo te diría? &amp;nbsp;- Dijo con una risita nerviosa. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- ¿Eróticas, querés decir? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- Si… no me esperaba…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;- No preguntaste qué público ...tu culpa… -dijo mientras le acariciaba el brazo izquierdo con la punta de sus dedos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;A Hugo se le desbarrancó la estructura que había pergeniado durante la tarde. &amp;nbsp; El salmón quedó en la canasta enfriándose, mientras sus manos tibias recorrían una a una las vértebras de la espalda desnuda de Emma. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Emma no se resistió. No era amor lo que había sentido por Hugo la noche anterior, lo tenía claro.&amp;nbsp; Enredó sus dedos entre los mechones rubios.&amp;nbsp; La mano de Hugo había seguido camino hacia el final de su espalda. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Hugo sentía el aroma de jazmines sobre la piel al tocarla con sus labios.&amp;nbsp; Notó que Emma no tenía ropa interior y se le aceleró el pulso.&amp;nbsp; Emma recorrió el cuerpo firme de Hugo, los músculos marcados, su aroma masculino.&amp;nbsp; La mano fuerte de él se paseaba por los muslos largos de Emma, se detuvo sorpendida cuando le hizo cosquillas el vello púbico.&amp;nbsp; Hugo notó que era más largo de lo que imaginaba.&amp;nbsp; Y repitió los movimientos varias veces más, una mano en la espalda más bien huesuda y la otra buscando una y otra vez esas cosquillas. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Los ojos de Emma ondulaban como las discretas la luz de luna sobre el mar.&amp;nbsp; Se dejó llevar y Hugo la invitó a tocar su miembro para entonces absolutamente rígido.&amp;nbsp; Recién entonces, Emma acercó su boca a la de Hugo y le mordisqueó los labios. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Se hundieron en el cuerpo del otro.&amp;nbsp; Las respiraciones cortadas, las exhalaciones largas y sonoras.&amp;nbsp; Los dedos de Hugo sumergiéndose, los cuerpos rodando sobre el sillón frente a la ventana.&amp;nbsp; La pasión enredada en el pelo.&amp;nbsp; El olor a sexo invadió el aire.&amp;nbsp; Y Emma y Hugo cayeron a la alfombra en busca de la última bocanada de aire.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;No tenían chance de que las copas fuesen demasiadas ni de que el sexo fuese poco.&amp;nbsp; Era una noche lenta y la escena se repitió varias veces. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Emma cayó exhausta y cerró los ojos para no tener que compartir lo que sentía.&amp;nbsp; Es un amante dedicado, se dijo y esbozó una sonrisa privada.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;Hugo la miró y trató de convencerse de que con ella no cometería errores.&amp;nbsp; Emma no era una mujer con la que podía jugar al rubio lindo ni por medio minuto porque lo pondría en la calle del olvido, aunque&amp;nbsp; las noches fuesen de sexo voraz. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;III.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Pasaron más o menos seis meses de felicidad.&amp;nbsp; Emma y Hugo parecían una sola persona, completándose las frases, mirándose a los ojos como nunca hubiesen sentido nada similar, una sensación de eterna felicidad que se prolongaría por varias vidas.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Viajaron a Japón juntos, pasearon por las callecitas heladas de Tokio y se perdieron en más de una oportunidad, no se sabe bien si uno en el otro o por la ignorancia del idioma.&amp;nbsp; Fueron a Londres y Milán.&amp;nbsp; Hugo le regaló unos cuantos vestidos.&amp;nbsp; Emma, unas cuantas corbatas.&amp;nbsp; Llegada la primavera, le propuso tomarse dos semanas para recorrer algunas islas de Bímini, pero Emma, sólo aceptó una. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Algo la hizo sentirse incómoda con Hugo. &amp;nbsp; Un día , tirados en la playa, él que nunca mencionaba a sus pacientes, le contó burlón que tenia uno que llamaba a su novia&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;cielito.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp; Emma hizo todo lo posible por disimular su ira, levantándose rápidamente y sumergiendóse en el mar.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Pero que idiota este Hugo, pensó ella mientras nadaba, pensó, seguro que le llama cielito porque la adora. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Alberto, el amor de su vida, siempre la llamaba &lt;i&gt;cielito&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Cuando volvió a la ciudad, sus amigas&amp;nbsp; Lila Carla y Marina, la familia elegida, como Emma les llamaba, habían organizado un almuerzo para el sábado. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Emma pensó que era raro que tuviesen todo tan preparado, pero al fin, no se habían visto en más de dos semanas, lo que era muy poco habitual.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Llegaron a Cata, un delicioso patio con exquisitas tapas, preparadas por su dueña y familia, que era como sentarse en el patio de casa, solo sin cocinar.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Una mesa las esperaba, debajo de la copiosa sombra de un ficus y las mujeres dejaron en manos de la dueña la selección del menú.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Hablaron de eventos habituales, se deleitaron con una aceitunas recién llegadas de España, y entre copa y copa de sangría,&amp;nbsp; Marina tomo coraje y las palabras comenzaron a brotar de su boca:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- Tenemos algo que decirte, algo que nos enteramos en estos días, mientras estabas de vacaciones.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Carla continuó, &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;- Deliberamos por varios días si debíamos contártelo o no, porque te vas a enterar en algún momento.&amp;nbsp; Mejor sabelo por nosotras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Lila le tomó fuerte la mano y Emma, murmuró mientras&amp;nbsp; perdía el color&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- No me asusten… ¿Qué pasa?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Marina volvió a tomar la palabra.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font: 11.0px Lucida Grande; letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;El otro día cuando iba&amp;nbsp; a la oficina, se me cruzó un tipo con el auto.&amp;nbsp; No paso nada, por suerte.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;El silencio era cada vez más espeso, casi como el postre con gelatina plantado sobre la mesa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;-&amp;nbsp;La frenada fue violenta y el tipo del auto, bajó desesperado, con los ojos rojos de lágrimas.&amp;nbsp; Me pareció un poco exagerado, por cierto.&amp;nbsp; Me causó compasión y de repente,&amp;nbsp; nos reconocimos.&amp;nbsp; Era Diego.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Para entonces, Carla tenía su mano apoyada sobre el brazo de Emma.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- ¿Diego…?&amp;nbsp; El Diego que yo pienso?&amp;nbsp; -Preguntó Emma atragantándose con las palabras.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- El mismo.&amp;nbsp; En fin, movimos los autos a una calle lateral,&amp;nbsp; y se sentó en el cordón de la vereda y empezó a hablar.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font: 11.0px Lucida Grande; letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;No puedo dejar de llorar, y verte no me mejora, dijo con la voz pequeña.&amp;nbsp; Te acordás de mi hermano Alberto?&amp;nbsp; Bueno, hace un mes, su socio en la fabrica vació las cuentas y desapareció.&amp;nbsp; Dos días después, cuando papá llegó a la fábrica para sacarlo a cenar, lo encontró con un tiro en el corazón.&amp;nbsp; Dejó tres cartas en una prolija pila: una carta para los viejos, una para mi y otra para Emma.&amp;nbsp; Las estaba buscando, mirá que forma de encontrarnos… Tomá.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Marina empalideció al decir esto, Carla y Lila, tenían lágrimas en los ojos.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Emma no podía respirar y Cata, siempre atenta, les acercó pañuelos de papel y vasos de agua con hielo.&amp;nbsp; Leyó la carta y se tiró hacia atrás en la silla, miró al cielo escondido entre las hojas y lloró durante largo rato antes de emitir palabra.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Unos años atrás, después de quince años de&lt;i&gt; sis&lt;/i&gt; y de &lt;i&gt;nos&lt;/i&gt;, Emma y Alberto habían acordado una temporaria separación de uno o dos años, para hacer pie con sus carreras. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Dos se hicieron tres y cuatro y al fin, se perdieron el rastro.&amp;nbsp; Emma siempre conservaba la ilusión de que el volvería en cualquier momento, y ahora la situación no tenía regreso. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Si lo hubiese llamado una de las tantas veces en que tuve el teléfono en la mano… - y se echó a llorar otra vez.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;Sonó el teléfono de Emma. La foto de Hugo con su sonrisa franca cubrió la pantalla.&amp;nbsp; Emma apretó &lt;i&gt;ignorar.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-tab-span&quot; style=&quot;white-space: pre;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;El teléfono volvió a sonar.&amp;nbsp; Emma volvió a apretar &lt;i&gt;ignorar&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 11.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0.0px;&quot;&gt;El capítulo de Hugo se había cerrado para siempre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-indent: 36px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/feeds/5847411569015609901/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2009/12/tres-tiempos-cuento-corto.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/5847411569015609901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/5847411569015609901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2009/12/tres-tiempos-cuento-corto.html' title='Tres tiempos, cuento corto.'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12548713958464458613</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826029393398350326.post-1446150542448394641</id><published>2009-09-28T08:32:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T15:19:36.630-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Queremos tanto a Julio (Cortázar)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;1983 fue un año emocionante. &amp;nbsp;Terminó la dictadura y el silencio. Pude hablar libremente de mi tía Chocha que había desaparecido en el 77. Mandé montones de cartas a gentes desconocidas invitandoles a votar. Me paré en el obelisco y junto a un millón de personas, canté con Jairo &quot;no tenemos miedo... no tendremos miedo nunca mas...&quot; &amp;nbsp;Teníamos ilusión, y lágrimas de emoción y recuerdo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Aun era tierna, en las tareas de leer a Julio. &amp;nbsp;A penas si intentaba leer Rayuela por segunda vez, esta vez de un tirón y no en secreto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Rayuela era mi novela mítica: mi tía llego un día de visita con el libro en su cartera y con tal titulo, yo pensé que era uno de esos que podía leer a los 10. Tendría que esperar pero leería la copia de mi tía que aun hoy, atesoro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Alguien me dijo que habría una conferencia, ni recuerdo dónde. Si recuerdo que cuando llegué, estaba apelotonado de gente. Un poco fui por Julio, otro por curiosidad y bastante porque en esa época &quot;flanner&quot; estaba en mi moda.&amp;nbsp;Flanner le decíamos con mi amiga Pati a eso de salir a vagabundear sin razón ni porqué y asi fue que caí ahí.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Al fin, no había lugar para todo el mundo y no pude entrar. Pero en al lejanía, la larga figura de niño genio se cruzó mi camino. Primera y última. No escuché su voz ese día, pasarían años para encontrar on-line sus textos leído, con ese tono único y esa entonación de jazz de sótano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Desde entonces, sigo tratando de que sus musas, tal vez, inspiren a las mías.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Me las prestas Julio?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/feeds/1446150542448394641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2009/09/queremos-tanto-julio-cortazar.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/1446150542448394641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/1446150542448394641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2009/09/queremos-tanto-julio-cortazar.html' title='Queremos tanto a Julio (Cortázar)'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12548713958464458613</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826029393398350326.post-1116690168935173720</id><published>2009-09-16T21:37:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-16T21:40:31.272-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="genral interest"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="non-profit"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="population"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="religion"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="society"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="spirituality"/><title type='text'>On billion in poverty. Yes, one thousand million.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;font: 13.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMUxvQR4h_UJzB7u3jmjQj-JL0EXb-olrST_ZwLYLR8Z4n9SsYoFtoqnLVE4oBwGvsuxUl9czF1VhZTis_2as17BGGFXOUFgFbpoDNNr4aobFLWm7_TZ-cSGMbyOhSujy4XFRHJDfdKvA/s1600-h/800px-Countries_by_population_density.svg.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;176&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMUxvQR4h_UJzB7u3jmjQj-JL0EXb-olrST_ZwLYLR8Z4n9SsYoFtoqnLVE4oBwGvsuxUl9czF1VhZTis_2as17BGGFXOUFgFbpoDNNr4aobFLWm7_TZ-cSGMbyOhSujy4XFRHJDfdKvA/s400/800px-Countries_by_population_density.svg.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 12.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font: 13.0px Helvetica; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;letter-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I am really alarmed, I can’t believe that we went so far, and we&#39;re chilling. This, should have been the most important one since it was published. However, we hear about the weather, sports, petit things of our daily existence. &lt;br /&gt;
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As of 16 September 2009, the Earth&#39;s population is estimated by the United States Census Bureau to be 6.784 billion.&lt;br /&gt;
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One billion of people live in poverty: 1000 millions. &lt;br /&gt;
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That is a almost a 15% of the world population &lt;br /&gt;
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The United States population x 3.&lt;br /&gt;
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The population of all South America or all North America x 2.&lt;br /&gt;
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All the population of the Americas from Northen Canada to the Southern most of South America. &lt;br /&gt;
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All the European population plus a 45%. &lt;br /&gt;
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You get the picture now? I am writing and you are reading this e-mail in the comfort of your home, a full belly, a glass of clean water and a nice little bed where to be covered with soft clean sheets, in good health and in a nice house.&lt;br /&gt;
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This time, we have gone too far and we have ignored human and non human fellows and the Planet. &lt;br /&gt;
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If you fly, when you look back at the Earth it is the most beautiful place. But when you approach and look in detail, we, who consider ourselves the most evolved of the species, we have done great damage to the planet, non-human and human sentient beings. &lt;br /&gt;
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This is not a complain nor a pity-pot sitting down. &lt;br /&gt;
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We must wake up. I believe change comes only from people, small groups of people who work to improve their existence and the ones of the people around. &lt;br /&gt;
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Change starts with a little friends chat, who tell another friend. &lt;br /&gt;
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Create change. Improve other people’s lives and you will change your live. For good. &lt;br /&gt;
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What can you do in your community to help change this? What can you teach, give? How can you help your community to get our of this situation and make a better life?&lt;br /&gt;
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Write me back, let make a world were we can all live right.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/feeds/1116690168935173720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2009/09/on-billion-in-poverty-yes-one-thousand.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/1116690168935173720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6826029393398350326/posts/default/1116690168935173720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jungladeterciopelo.blogspot.com/2009/09/on-billion-in-poverty-yes-one-thousand.html' title='On billion in poverty. Yes, one thousand million.'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12548713958464458613</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMUxvQR4h_UJzB7u3jmjQj-JL0EXb-olrST_ZwLYLR8Z4n9SsYoFtoqnLVE4oBwGvsuxUl9czF1VhZTis_2as17BGGFXOUFgFbpoDNNr4aobFLWm7_TZ-cSGMbyOhSujy4XFRHJDfdKvA/s72-c/800px-Countries_by_population_density.svg.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6826029393398350326.post-5311901671051925110</id><published>2009-02-19T12:33:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-19T13:41:40.694-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Choices, choices, choices</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsl4ZKHObBvSFZ8kZL64ecq8qyfHmvRPjuLdw5tKHJH95jDKHmPWh4mqp44PgiqlNrAjnkBOzcvHHWOheD6GhkNnm8pCCpGPqLrAMR76zdbGmzdwxb4i4R6bcVG7eYKBtstJqU17geE1U/s1600-h/Choises.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 228px; height: 320px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsl4ZKHObBvSFZ8kZL64ecq8qyfHmvRPjuLdw5tKHJH95jDKHmPWh4mqp44PgiqlNrAjnkBOzcvHHWOheD6GhkNnm8pCCpGPqLrAMR76zdbGmzdwxb4i4R6bcVG7eYKBtstJqU17geE1U/s320/Choises.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304580382193440754&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;  style=&quot;font-size:small;&quot;&gt;I had two conversations that are pushing me to write about change and choices.
A dear friend of mine, yesterday morning chased away a pregnant woman and her husband thieves who broke into his work van, to steal his daily living tools.  He was very agitated about the whole incident, including that he smashed the window of the thieves car, to find the pregnant woman.  
His life hasn&#39;t been easy and it looks that the chain of obstacles is constant and increasing. 
This morning I had on the phone another friend, who was concerned about the economic disaster being suffered by the United States and all countries in this planet. 
Where do I see a common point between both issues?
I see common ground on the need to introspect, find the root of the problem, and work the way towards a solution, with the most basic ingredient: conscientious choice and desire to modify conducts and attitudes.
What am I talking about? I am talking about find where the system in which we live is falling, why we are there and which is the best resolution to be able to move forward.  
We cannot continue to think the world as we did 10 years ago, and much less to apply the same solutions we have been using until now. Those solutions were just quick fixes and now the hurt is much greater and a band-aid will not do the work.  
We need to be bold, think outside the box, outside the established and be confident about the results.  
We need a quick change of our state of mind and see this crisis as a great opportunity to cross the limits we have put for ourselves. 
We need the traditional companies stop thinking human existence is in function to business and get back to the beginning: we need to balance work/business time with person life, equally distributed. 
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