Honest and down to earth wishes for the New Year.
May you seek to be the best you can be so the world catches on and it spreads the hope and peace we all need:
Read More…Mistakes, time and youth.
When we are young we make mistakes as we keep making them throughout our lives. Yet the difference lies in that when we are young the margin to correct those mistakes and learn from them is wider. It’s a question of the time we have left.
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You Are Not Alone: Hope and Help for Caregivers.
If you belong to one of the many Latino families who are facing the prospect of a difficult Christmas because you are caring for your elders and maybe your children, too, this post is for you. Juggling your job, your kids, and older adults, most likely won’t give you time to take for yourself. In […]
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On being grateful for the weirdest things.
Maybe not at the time did I feel grateful, especially while it was happening, but now in retrospect I can see how I dodged plenty a bullet and I’m able to thank, who knows who, for all those experiences that one might tag as unfortunate. I, on the other hand, see how those things had […]
Read More…Un día cualquiera
Era un día cualquiera. No recuerdo la fecha, sólo recuerdo que lucía un sol primaveral esplendoroso, y ahí me lo encontré, en una esquina, sentado en la acera apoyado contra la pared. No era un indigente, pues llevaba traje y corbata. Ahí estaba, llorando, con las manos cubriéndose el rostro.
Read More…Las sombras de diciembre.
Diciembre trae consigo esas sombras del pasado que son difíciles de borrar. Es en estas fechas que uno echa la mirada atrás en un acto involuntario, sin quererlo ni beberlo nos vemos inundados de recuerdos. De lo que fue, fuimos, y lo que somos hoy.
Read More…The letters I never sent…
It happened once, it happened twice, and the last time was just recently. I shall make sure it doesn’t happen again. I will not let letters or e-mails sit unsent until I am not too busy to finish and send them. Three times the letter and emails were late and the people who they were […]
Read More…Nothing happens for a reason.
I used to have this naïve idea that everything happened for a reason. Yet, after much thought, many bumps on the road, the harsh, or maybe not so much, reality is that things just happen, good and bad, and there is no hidden reason.
Read More…Happiness: the simple act of contemplating nature.
As Thoreau said in Walden: “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”[Walden]
Read More…A 23 year old apology.
This is a belated letter. Almost 23 years late, but it’s here nevertheless. Now in retrospect I wish I could erase some damage I may have caused you. We did part, not as enemies but as two people who lost a battle. Who lost the most? I ‘d like to think we both gained. How […]
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