Moving home seems to be the malady of the contemporary humans. But for how much longer?
Tag: blogging
Memories and self-identity / Recuerdos y auto-identidad
Christiansted harbor at dusk, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (2019) (Versión en castellano, abajo) Humans possess the unique ability … More
All is dull when there is no contrast / Sin contrastes, todo es aburrido
For the unaware North American or European traveler who first arrives in the tropics, a pleasant surprise awaits. Against the reference background of northerner landscapes, the colors of the tropics do stand out boldly.
City Lights, sweet dreams/ Luces de la Ciudad, dulces sueños
City lights… the perfect overture to a night of sound and deep sleep?
In God, we trust….do we really?
In God, we trust! Or so we want to believe. In reality, modern civilization is imbued in paranoid distrust.
Archetypal gestures / Gestos arquetípicos
Human gestures are perfect definition of archetypes.
Under Aphrodite’s influence
Aphrodite invites us to embrace, in full madness, the short-lived effervescence of sexual passion.
An engineer’s mind / Mente de ingeniero
Thankfully, bridges, buildings and towers bring a sort of order and structure into our otherwise unpredictable lives.
Black holes of attention / Los agujeros negros de la atención
Just as light gravitates towards black holes and then disappears, so is our attention obliterated by cell phones. Everyday. Everywhere.
Underdogs stories
As it happens, one balmy night in October 2018, the Dodgers reminded us -if only briefly- of Americans’ fascination for underdogs stories.
