Stories and News

Stories and News No. 611 The 28th of November 2013 will be remembered as a great day, no kidding. Because only the great days are those who illuminate the darkness that our myopic memory is affected by. It will be light. That is, a relief for many. Read also an enemy less for too many. The preliminaries were as in a plot of the first class, it is no doubt. Extreme curiosity. White-hot distrust. And more than ever, unconscious fear. The worst to uproot. Because when the distant encounters the neighbor, you cannot expect more. Hopelessly before. Yet we have seen comets. If not in the sky with the naked eye. On the couch mesmerized by that magic box. Conjured by the pen of a stories farmer. Even on the run from a giant screen thanks to the tribute or deception, depending on your point of view, of an illusory plus dimension. Well, fear is still intact, when the lights back in the room. It is one of the classic limitations of artificial light. It dispels the dark...

Stories and News No. 610 In Belgium, Anderlecht, a 69 years old lady lived for a year with her husband's corpse in the bed and the dog, also deceased, next to the table where she usually ate meals. A sort of indispensable extension of married life, in spite of time’s passage. I read that the woman was taken to a psychiatric hospital. Yet, as many know, between the folds of the madness sometimes wonderful intent are hidden. Absurd feelings and inadmissible emotions. Worthy only of small stories, such as… The dream of the widow Go to sleep, my husband. Sleep and rest. Dreams quietly, but not too much. You know how dreams are, we perfectly know. Like actors. So desirous of applause, able to do anything to keep the curtain open. The last dream, then, is the most vain between them. A trap in the form of paradise tailored to the hero of the day. There is time, my love. There is still time. An eternity, they say. Well, I 'm not ready for so much. Yes, I know...

Stories and News No. 609 The One World Trade Center, aka Freedom Tower, officially became the tallest building in the United States. The decision comes by the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a non- profit international organization that takes care of these rankings. 1,776 feet (541 m) including the antenna, this will be the new American record. I said it will be, because the enormous palace has not yet been opened. Anyway, the record is already won. And Duma laughs. Yes, she laughs. Duma is 79 years old and lives in Thame, a village in Nepal. The old woman does not have a degree. Not a single job. In the sense of leaving the house every day chasing indifferent whizzing cars, sadist running trains and crowds of commuters. Looking for the prosperity of an indispensable envelope. For a step forward in the hierarchies. And further bait in the envelope above. But Duma laughs. Yeah, this is precisely what she does. Well, this is not the same old story of t...

Stories and News No. 608 This is the story of two little girls. Or maybe one. November 11, 2013 . My name is Beatriz Joy, in short Bea, and I was born today. An image, mine, in my mother’s arms, has earned many front pages in major newspapers. A miracle baby, they say. That is for the typhoon, or in spite of this, they imply. Yet I would have been anyway. A miracle. For my mother. How do you call it other than an incredible miracle the whole show before, between magical metamorphosis of a body, and more than ever what follows, until the opening of the curtain named life. I know what you think. I'm biased. It’s a personal matter, mine. Well, what are we talking about if not something that belongs to me? Nevertheless, all this attention warms my heart. And heaven knows I need it, at this particular moment. Especially from this time on, to be honest. Because, as my grandmother said, it is when the fire is off that we really need the help. When the house is no...

Stories and News No. 607 An elderly woman in the New York Marathon. She falls, still runs and dies. There is a mistake, they tell me. Joy Johnson, 86 year old, ran her last marathon. During the latter, she fell at the 20th kilometer and hit her head. Some people asked her if she wanted to stop and go to the hospital, but it was useless. The indefatigable grandma, with a steel tempering, continued to run until the finish line. The next day she was in Today Show, a well-known American television show. So she went to rest. And she died sleeping. I know what you think. The mistake is not having gone to the hospital after the fall. No, they say the error was not that. The octogenarian lady falls at the New York Marathon. She runs and then dies. There is an error, they continue to say. Oh, right. If not at the time of the fall, Joy would have to be seen by doctors at least after crossing the finish line. Just a check, that maybe would have saved her life. Is this th...