“Good Ol’ Spain”
The lady was French though she’d either been born in Spain or came as a little girl. Her father was a diplomat. He didn’t request Spanish citizenship for her so though she stayed in Madrid she always remained a French citizen I believe. I don’t know what happened to her father but she and her brothers remained in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War she was a teenager and became a Socialist. She was denounced and arrested and spent the whole war in prison. Almost every night … Read More
Year: 2025
Time
The river bed remains even when the river is gone. A time bed is similarly carved in our memory. Consequently, we measure time by looking backwards
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Facing time and reality, what can we do with our instants and our dreams?
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Past: eternity put into storage
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Now:
Life is what’s going on now
It contains your heart and your soul
For now.
Yesterday died, tomorrow doesn’t exist
Now is as big as the universe
Now . . . !
Extracts of Existence
“Reverent Agnostic”
In the past, people were divided into believers and atheists; they followed either their gurus or their senses and their down to earth logic. Now things are more complicated; there are degrees in almost everything. Materialists are shaken by Relativity and Quanta while, for many believers, the gurus’ faith and authority come into question.
When agnostics start to dig into the Holy Scriptures, it resembles those ancient alchemists whose research often brought unimagined results. A.J. Jakobs, a New York author, an agnostic, spent a whole year living the Bible literally, … Read More
“Carol” (A portrait from the past)
I met her in Paris where she worked as a maid. She was a peasant from around Burgos (northern Spain). Her mother died early and her father and stepmother treated her inhumanly. When she was five years old they sent her to a convent. There she wasn’t handled with silk gloves either; Spain was simply a hard country where the strongest survived. Five year old Carol scrubbed the convent’s floors and washed clothes from morning to night. She stood on a chair raised up on blocks … Read More