Thursday, October 21, 2010

Is There Ski Mountains Near Colorado Springs?



The vegetarian restaurant that I go often, a week ago I hurry as always asking for my lunch and grabbing the first site I found. Soon came a couple that bordered the elderly, and sat at my table very attentive they saluted and began to chat among themselves in their daily lives. Mr. did not pass unnoticed, wearing a shirt with lyrics that seemed Hindi, looked over sixty years, but athletic bearing, carrying a backpack full of candy, almonds, walnuts, avocados, and other "goodies" and dressing for lunch. The lady seemed a loving grandmother, those who love to sit and listen to stories and surprises you with sweet fresh from the oven. Suddenly jumped out the classic question asked in this type of places you a vegetarian? For how long? Conviction? By religion? Why?. So began a conversation at which you can say I've met the grandparents I never had and I now know what I wanted. Jesus and Mary (not their real names) were also in love with me, an unusual meeting in which José I said at the same time that it was God who put me in that chair at that exact moment, so I got their phone and made me promise to call them.

Days after that meeting, I went to eat something with my boyfriend at the mall. Bad decision. After the pleasure to engulf some spaghetti, gave a few turns around to hit theaters, we chose a random movie and suddenly we found ourselves doing a row with more than fifty people in front of us, and was there when I autocachetié, disk stopped when you stop an LP as a slap, and I cried to my boyfriend: I really want to do this long line to see a movie that deep down we do not want to see?, do not want to become those couples who spend their Sunday at the mall, do you??. We fled from that line, fled from the temple of consumerism, and the people who are "fun" and "lies" on the Mall in its Sunday. It was then that I remembered Jesus and Mary and I called to say hello to fall with my second home, it sure would be a more welcoming place that is cool mall. Excited, I said of course we received at home, so off we went.

The Jesus and Mary house very simple, in a crowded neighborhood in the city. They had two cats, a very black as the mystery, and the other white and caramel. Photo of children and grandchildren everywhere, and a piano that well preserved austerity. Did not stop fill of food, arepas, coladas, fresh fruit brought from his farm that had been all day. We feel so stupid, Sunday at the mall in the middle of people lost and empty and resting them on his farm at the foot of the mountain with a delightful climate fruit harvesting, cooking in your cottage with your friends. We talked about many things, our upcoming wedding, we are planning a vegetarian menu of which were delighted. Thirty-five years of being vegetarian, forty years of marriage, their children become professionals, their impeccable health status, and most nice thing is that it was the most loving way I've ever seen in a pair.

I left that house with my heart could take no more of happiness for having had the good fortune to know, because people like Jesus and Mary do I keep the faith in love, in a particularly happy life despite everything. I've thought that that is the daughter of divorced parents have created this need to believe and confirm that there is love for life, which is not a matter of chance but of choice, and like everything in life, is learning, so in that I'm ... learning from teachers to graduate in the career of a mostly happy life despite everything.

While writing this post, I had in my head this song very conducive for the moment:).

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Metal Scooter Core Wheels

Prometheus deported

At the entrance of the cinema, the line to enter was quite long. The new Harry Potter? No. One more of the twilight saga? No. It was the film Prometheus Deported, by Fernando Honeys. For the first time in history, as far as I remember, an Ecuadorian film has filled the movie theaters in this country, which has pleased me greatly. Besides being a good movie, add that their promotion has been excellent, considering Supercines owners to have been one of the many sponsors, including state agencies, municipal, foreign, private company, etc, which shows the interest across the country have explored the issue of migration from a different angle from the seventh art.

I predict this movie a sea of \u200b\u200btears and laughter in Murcia, Madrid, Barcelona and all over the world where unfortunately have had to migrate as many Ecuadorians, leaving family, friends, their roots, their dead. And for those who stayed here, as is a snapshot of our culture, not from a mountain view, coast, but from an Ecuadorian who has attempted to portray an identity coming to caricature to get away from shame laugh at ourselves and at the end say, dammit, if the same are!. Remember seeing her classic episodes of family or people you know who behaves well. Personally, I remembered one time I worked at the airport and took part in the seizure of a crab, and could not put up with the laughter of authority supposedly served in that scene where an Ecuadorian led him to her family in New York half of the table cooked crab, and certainly were closed. What a silly way to pay, in jail for gil, and Ecuador.

Run to the cinema to see that now in its second week in theaters. Then certainly will the pirate, and a good Ecuadorian videotienda go to your favorite pirate, but do not have the pleasure of seeing on the big screen, seeing the faces of the audience identified, laughing, and even getting nostalgic. Highly recommended.


Tuesday, October 5, 2010

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Learning Light of St. Francis of Assisi



Yesterday left my work lunch hour, crossing the same street every day, the same square, same crazy sitting in the pews, the church itself, but this time it was filled with worshipers who came and went not with that look of Despite of repentant sinners, beggars of miracles, no, this time out sorientes, certainly an aura of light, for what concerns what should be asked who or what lit the light on them, finding the news to be held San Fracisco day of Assisi, the patron of that church.

Once inside the church, I experienced a feeling of infinite peace, brotherhood, love. They were the last quice minute Mass presided by Dominican priests, offered in honor of the birth of San Franisco of Assisi, who has my sympathy and even devotion. Neophyte issues sant @ s, @ s beat, and other Christian idols, I softens to tears how little I know about this saint, on his austere life and detached from material possessions, about respect for animals who treated them as children of God, and in general a very high respect to a consciousness of living beings that inhabit this world.

In these turbulent days are needed not one but many Masses in honor of the saint of peace. At the end of this, the priest asked specifically for peace in our country, some much-needed, asked to follow the teachings of this saint, devotees cheered, raised their hands and shouted loud Viva San Francisco de Assisi!. In the afternoon we carried out the tradition of this date (now know) to bless animals, plants and seeds.

is now when I find mysticism in the Plaza San Francisco, it was not coincidence that so many pigeons walk by dozens, happily and without fear, it turns out that each magnet Franciscan church is this, because the love of his employer for the animals. Apparently, this young lady already has his favorite saint ...

Saturday, October 2, 2010

How To Look Smaller In A Wedding Dress

Reflections of September 30, 2010


Like a surrealist novel, after the fear and desolation that Ecuadorians feel the historic September 30, 2010, the day before everything went relatively normal. People came to work, commenting on all about which the President rescue thriller around the country attended by television, newspapers minute narrated what had happened the day before, but they are read without surprise that old news, after being followed in the instant everything that happened on that day of terror, and at the end of the day we had all stayed relatively quiet once the movie reached its climax with the rescue, and came to an end with the head in Carondelet showing signs of life. And I say that was a normal day yesterday, the crowded malls to be end of the month, the cinema with films from quality, and to finish my little neighbors did their respective weekly bash.

No, as usual, was not something we imagine, not ever erase the images we all saw where the police with their faces covered intimidate the population, aimed at civilians armed with their bikes through the city in war plan. No images will be deleted shops looted, mothers running with microwave over his shoulder, and will not be erased from my mind this deep fear that people felt yesterday, all at home for safekeeping, leaving the of their work or whatever, praying for good health and not come with a vandal on the road. Such was the uncertainty to be lived, which was even a state of paranoia in which the stranger was a potential enemy, and it was crazy to leave the streets @ sun.











These days I have seen beyond the causes that led to the tragic events of September 30 2010, that if the police had no reason to protest and that if it was justified to leave the country without security, there will be the subject of my reflection, that's been talked to death. What happened in country, and more specifically in my city and I do not know about other realities, has left me thinking a lot about society itself on the quality of human beings than we are.


I have a vague recollection of one of the theories of the state, that of Spencer, who compared the state as a biological organism, if I remember was the organismic theory. Oh my this comparison, to think that what happened with the police could well be considered as an autoimmune disease state, which according to wikipedia is "a disease caused because the immune system attacks the body's own cells, and me as a child my mother (scientific fact) taught me that the defenses were as your soldiers who were always ready to attack a virus or bacteria.

But thinking beyond such is the decline of this society, degeneration, destruction of self, the very low level of consciousness that trustees need to prowl the city to maintain order, needed virtual weapons or really points to prevent the spread of crime and chaos?. I wonder, individuals as such what kind of collective consciousness can be? For no, or one that leads to chaos, division and misery. And finally, low respect and trust that you had these "trustees" has lost at least in this city. Now how can a moral quality police catch criminals, if they themselves staged scenes vandalism. Where we'll end up ...

the end, I can only rely on the teachings of Brahma Kumaris. Now remember that while I peered through the window of the building where I work, my colleagues nervous, and people in the streets running, I called a Brahmin and that he asked me to be always in the remembrance of God, as this is only the expression of Iron Age in which we live. Touch to stay calm, meditation, prayer, whatever your religion or faith, generate light and expand hacia nuestros amigos, familia, barrio, ciudad, país, hasta que nos bañe a todos.

* Fotos de Diario El Universo.