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Angel
I know you can feel the wingswhen you close your eyesand your skin crawls.They are thereeven if no one else sees them. —Alberto García.
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Never Forget What’s Important
It was an ordinary Monday of an ordinary week of an ordinary year. It was a day like today. One day less. The sky was full of black clouds that roared like giant little Jurassic felines. I was walking along the sidewalk, almost always: without looking ahead, kicking stones, caressing walls, railings, and shop windows; […]
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Today I went to McDonald’s for ice cream, and my heart melted.
The 40 degrees in the shade pushes me inside the Ronald the Clown restaurant. Behind the automatic door, the realm of air conditioning and calories opens before me. I go to the counter. A somewhat stressed Puerto Rican woman serves me. I ordered a Menu instead of the ice cream I had in mind. I […]
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The first time a gun was held to my head.
A poem by Jack Gilbert begins like this, “Everyone forgets that Icarus flew too,” and ends with this reflection: “I think Icarus was not failing to fall but had just reached the end of his triumph.” Every time I reread it, I think of the beauty of battle – more often than not more beautiful […]
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It’s Not Being the Best Writer. It’s Being the Bestseller.
It’s not enough to be right. You have to be able to sell it. —Ryan Holiday. I am not talking about money, I am speaking about being effective with your words. Good writers write about what people want to read. Great writers write about what people NEED to read. And you need to read this—even if it […]
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Don’t Let Your Winters Fuck Up Your Springtime
“The Ice man was as lonely as an iceberg in the dark night.” —Haruky Murakami. Life cools your heart as the years go by. The losses, the goodbyes, the disappointments. The cold does not heal the wounds, but it anesthetizes the pain. When you grow up, you learn to detach yourself from things, dreams, and […]
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Nothing Is What It Seems.
“Nature hides. It does not reveal. All this luminous and dark universe whose sum of energies we call nature is a mask, a dress, a dream. Nature is not Isis but the veil of Isis.” —Fernando Pessoa. The Egyptian goddess Isis was so powerful that, according to Egyptian mythology, she resurrected her husband and protected […]
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Remember, You’re Going to Die.
Do it because it is powerful. When you are aware that you will die, you don’t let opportunities slip away. When you are aware that you will die, you don’t get bitter about silly things. When you are aware that you will die, you focus on your goals and being happy. When you know that […]
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The Miracle Seed.
With Leon Tolstoi’s permission, I will version one of his stories. The story goes that some children found a seed so ample that it looked like a hen’s egg and sold it to the Tsar. The Tsar did not know if it was a seed or an egg until a henpecked the strange object, and […]
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Patience is Science.
To be patient is to seek balance while being aware of the prevalence of chaos. Chaos is the force with which the universe makes you grow. Perfect balance does not exist and should not exist because if something did not destabilize your life, everything would be flat, static, and boring. And your life would be […]