tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588022031672280602024-03-20T06:33:56.257-07:00El blog de Alina TortosaAlina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-42485484019481833272020-09-29T05:46:00.000-07:002020-09-29T05:46:14.249-07:00Children and grandchildren across the ocean<p> What can we</p><p>the older generations say</p><p>when the clever young people</p><p>move abroad across the ocean</p><p>prepared as they are</p><p>for a broader vision</p><p>of a contenporary world</p><p>with multiple options</p><p><br /></p><p>we are happy for them</p><p>and for ourselves</p><p>for we are proud</p><p>of who they are</p><p><br /></p><p>we will miss them deeply</p><p>yes</p><p>and cry sadly</p><p>yes</p><p><br /></p><p>this does not lessen </p><p>our pride in who they are</p><p>on what they do</p><p>and on what they will do.</p>Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-79540662334972134622019-12-26T06:00:00.000-08:002019-12-26T06:00:01.535-08:00On words <br />
And words I like<br />
beyond the meaning<br />
they convey<br />
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to know them<br />
to learn about them<br />
I also like<br />
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And here I am, once again, writing for the sake of writing. <br />
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Before I learnt how to write, before reading became a habit, words were meaningful. I enjoyed their sound, even the sound of those I did not understand. I loved learning new words. I would repeat them to myself silently, rather like savoring a peace of candy. Both myself and my siblings were tuned to three languages, Spanish, our mother tongue, German, spoken by our mother and her mother - we lived with our parents and maternal grandparents - and English, spoken by our mother with her school friends. We did not learn English until we started school, and neither did we know German then, so we spoke in sounds that represented to us what the two women in our household spoke.<br />
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This feeling for words developed, in my case, into writing. It was only in my late teens I understood it could become a profession.<br />
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Why do I think of those first words now? Because now, when speaking, I often have trouble remembering a word, a simple word, a name, the name of somebody or something I know well, which is embarrassing. It does not happen when I write. <br />
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<br />Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-9953153725357740122018-08-13T06:26:00.000-07:002018-08-13T06:26:22.589-07:00On writing a poem<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">in the early morning</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I heard an inner voice</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">whispering a phrase</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">again and again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">people ask</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">what inspires you</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">words I did not remember</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">that lay waiting</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">somewhere </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">in a labile layer</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">of the mind</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-59668694033146404842018-08-11T12:05:00.000-07:002018-08-11T12:06:46.361-07:00Time and time again<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
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Time and time again To Frank Rodick</div>
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memory takes me back celebrating his work </div>
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to memories that Familiar Strangers<o:p></o:p></div>
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happened or not Family Portraits in Life and Death<o:p></o:p></div>
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which does not mean<o:p></o:p></div>
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perception<o:p></o:p></div>
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bound to data<o:p></o:p></div>
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it is a net<o:p></o:p></div>
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that gathers from a wide<o:p></o:p></div>
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spectrum beyond our ken<o:p></o:p></div>
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we dabble in layers <o:p></o:p></div>
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of perception<o:p></o:p></div>
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understanding<o:p></o:p></div>
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and missunderstanding<o:p></o:p></div>
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of knowing<o:p></o:p></div>
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and not knowing.<o:p></o:p></div>
Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-58783476862823863382018-04-10T07:21:00.002-07:002018-04-10T07:21:41.998-07:00On Silence<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">10 de abril,2018 - Pasó mucho tiempo desde que pensé esta charla, hoy los ejemplos serían otros, o no la escribiría. O no la escribiría porque ya escribí esta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">originally to geography. We learn from our environment the way to express our thoughts, our needs and our feelings. A child in La Boca, the district by the river, will speak differently and more than a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">child in Humahuaca. This child born and bred in the hills of Jujuy will communicate in silence, as </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; font-weight: bold; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">silence as aloneness - or to be oneself in silence</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; font-weight: bold; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This brings to mind the desert and meditation, and brings to mind a sense of </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">freedom. The freedom that we acquire when we understand that being alone is not</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">world we live in at length, and intently, is the greatest gift. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I, myself, find it difficult to understand that one can achieve a sense of identity and of</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">purpose in one's own life without silence and introspection. And yet, I know that it is not</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">only in the desert, or the empty spaces that this sense of identity and this sense of bein</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">g is</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">found, it is also possible to recognize quietude in the multitude, quietude within the</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">noise, and to rejoice in this silent space, where we can stand or sit as on a prayer rug, an</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">d </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">enjoy the feelings in our hearts and, or, the thoughts in our minds.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; font-weight: bold; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Contemporary silence</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; font-weight: bold; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The child in a busy street has learnt to look for sounds, to pay attention to sounds that may imply pleasure - a street vendor selling something nice to eat - or danger, - a bus down the road at full speed. The background noise works out as a sort of screen on which other noises take shape. This background noise is his equivalent of silence. This </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">street wise child will obviously have a different appreciation </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">of silence and sound than our child in the countryside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">half paying attention to what is going on and what is said on the screen. This may be th</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">e</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">new contemporary concept of silence.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; font-weight: bold; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Silence as anguish and drama </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; font-weight: bold; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">in Spanish : </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; font-style: italic; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Los gritos del silencio</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. A people brainwahed into silence, into denial, int</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">o</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">repetition of arbitrary statements, cry out their anguish in silence.</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">the drug barons are given for their work a large sum of money, which will fullfill their</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">own needs in an extravagant way, and the basic needs of their families for a generation or</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">two. Most of them die very young, and they know it may be so beforehand. If caught, </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">they cannot be held prisoners for they are legally too young to go to prison, some as </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">young as ten years old. Few survive. The first cases of children who have been caught </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">and released are being studied by psychologists and other specialists now. These children </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">answer no questions, they refuse to talk. They were brainwashed into silence. They are </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">called : </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; font-style: italic; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">los chicos del silencio</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> : the children of silence. It is only through unfinished </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">arrive at the first conclusions. These first cases have turned out to be eldest boys of </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">extremely poor, fatherless families. These boys must feel the glamour of the reckless lifes </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">mothers. It is the means to help their families beyond the pale of starvation. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Who do we blame for the fate of these children ? Who is to blame ?</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If I keep silent on these issues when I ought to speak out, my silence shares in the </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">violence done by the drug barons. In our contemporary world issues are everybody's </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">responsibility. To choose to be silent, as we have done many times in Argentina, is to </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">chose to hand out decisions to whoever wants power over others. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If you have seen Camila, or Miss Mary -fimls by María Luisa Bemberg- you may understand</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">what I am talking about. In Camila, the father doest not defend her daughter from death,</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">that if she is guilty,</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; font-weight: bold; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">the others are innocent. Miss Mary, being the outsider, was an easy</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold;">Silence as etiquette - silence as indiscretion</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If someone else came into the room when we were all up and about, and most of us talking away - if a woman came into this room who had been found out having an affair with somebody else's </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 14,0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">compose</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">d </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">entirely of such </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">s</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">ounds. Seeing Rauschenberg's all-white paintings at Black Mountain - </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">canvases painted flat white, on which the only images to be seen were the shadows and reflections of the painting's environment - gave him the encouragement he needed. Cage's 4'33" received its first performance in August of 1952, at the Mverick Concert Hall in Woodstock, New York. David Tudor, who performed it, solved the problem of the piece's division into three parts by closing the cover of the piano keybord at the start of each movement and by opening it at the end of the specified time."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">this depth of unexplored meaning, of meaning that has not come to the surface, that is only partially understood. And yet, this deep silence, this dense and compact structure guides our emotions</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">,</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"> and through our emotions our actions</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-weight: bold;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">The English say : "Least said sooner mended" This is true about small irritating matters, but it is certainly not true aout things that matter. To be silent or to keep silent about what matters is very costly. It is the root of pain and evil. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">There is an Argentine saying, </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">“</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Mejor ponerse colorado de entrada que </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">verde</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"> despues</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">”</span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">. </span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">It is healthier to speak out to start with. </span></div>
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Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-73411649767345481522018-04-02T09:05:00.003-07:002018-04-02T09:07:16.528-07:002 de abril 1982 *<br />
No entendí bien<br />
qué pasaba<br />
<br />
cuando comprendí<br />
sentí miedo<br />
<br />
nos habíamos lanzado al vacío<br />
gritando y agitando banderas.<br />
<br />
* de "Las piedras bajo el agua" - 1992, y de la antología " El tiempo en el tiempo" - 2015<br />
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<br />Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-14590724078293299952018-03-20T05:30:00.000-07:002018-03-20T05:30:19.572-07:00Me pierdo en el sentido de un sentir<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12,0000pt; mso-hyphenate: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-63725232404640199262018-03-17T02:12:00.002-07:002018-03-17T02:12:42.323-07:00If I could back in time<div class="MsoNormal">
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Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-56977465314521504962018-03-14T08:20:00.000-07:002018-03-14T08:20:20.917-07:00On time<div class="MsoNormal">
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Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-41610603387072648352018-02-03T10:40:00.000-08:002018-02-03T10:40:43.595-08:00Hiroshima 1977<br />
Imágenes translúcidas<br />
de desperanza y fe<br />
se superponen y dibujan<br />
la ciudad desdibujada<br />
<br />
fuego que fue aire<br />
aire que fue fuego<br />
<br />
no hago preguntas<br />
escucho<br />
<br />
la gente parece haber olvidado.<br />
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<br />Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-28989671358513665022018-01-28T05:14:00.000-08:002018-01-28T05:15:38.230-08:00Another question<br />
To understand<br />
is to be able<br />
to ask<br />
another question. *<br />
<br />
<br />
* fom Autobiogardens and other poems / Sifipublishing / 2015<br />
available in Amazon and world wide in print and kindle editions.<br />
<br />Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-45585810060915702082018-01-19T11:19:00.000-08:002018-01-19T11:27:35.144-08:00On believing<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14 0000pt;"> my favourite believers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Faith is a gift</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14 0000pt;">we may believe</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14 0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14 0000pt;">and yet</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14 0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14 0000pt;">learning is not believing</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14 0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14 0000pt;">there are layers</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14 0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12 0000pt;">No lo imaginé. Fui llegando sin darme cuenta que iba. Lo conocía como un lugar más, no lo había visto como lo que realmente sería: mi lugar en el mundo. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12 0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12 0000pt;">Quienes me visitan por primera vez pueden sentirse deslumbrados por el paisaje o desalentados por el aislamiento físico geográfico. Entrando, a la izquierda un cerro sube intercalando piedras, hierba, vertientes, coronillas y matas de espina de cruz. A la derecha, se abre un </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">puerta de mi dormitorio para que las deje salir al campo. De noche se escucha la voz </span></div>
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Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-79212126392691618792017-09-21T03:59:00.000-07:002017-09-21T03:59:20.955-07:00It grows on you the land<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -36.0pt; text-align: justify;">
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A los 12 años pensé espontaneamente este poema cándido, sin saber que la poesía podía ser una ocupación vital y central a lo largo de la vida<br />
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Primavera<br />
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Se acerca la primavera<br />
Con sus pájaros y flores,<br />
Se acerca la primavera<br />
Con sus vívidos colores.<br />
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Es que el mundo se renueva<br />
Con alegría y esplendor,<br />
La felicidad reemplaza<br />
A la tristeza y al dolor.<br />
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Es una luz subyugante<br />
Que se esparce por doquier,<br />
Hace a la felicidad reinante<br />
Y al olvido del ayer.<br />
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Si el ayer fue doloroso<br />
Con sus noches inciertas<br />
Hoy serpa más que glorioso<br />
La felicidad despierta.<br />
<br />Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-69180051558161911972017-08-01T04:04:00.001-07:002017-08-01T04:04:33.027-07:00The Caillebotte legacy<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For the Herald
Sunday. September 10, 2000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">There is that quota of anguish in the appreciation of contemporary art
for the non initiated that causes them to look away, to withdraw, or to ignore
it. They may find it hard to come to
terms with life as it is today, and do not want to be reminded of the hard
edges. A commited and talented artist
has feelers that will interpret <i>reality</i>
for him, before it becomes real to most people. The work may appear far fetched or obsessed
because he has consciously or uncousciously understood social, historical and
biological processes ahead of most of his contemporaries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In restrospect, the work of the
Impressionists seems harmless enough
today. Yet in its own
time it caused a major outroar.
To most people today,
Impressionsism is a sort of aesthetic oasis.
It was not like that at the time.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">An interesting example is what
the french call "le leg. Caillebotte". Gustave Caillebotte, one of the until
recently less known impressionists, when
he died in 1984 left his art collection to the French nation "on condition
that 'it should go neither to an attic, nor a provincial museum, but straight
to the Luxembourg [the museum then devoted to the work of living artists} and
later to the Louvre' "</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Usuario/Desktop/Alina/Trabajos%20publicados%20y%20presentaciones/Buenos%20Aires%20Herald/The%20Caillebotte%20legacy.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.15pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">. The
collection was made up of nineteen Pissarros, fourteen Monets, ten Renoirs, nine Sisleys, seven Degas, five
Cézannes and four Mannets. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Renoir, who together with Martial Caillebote, Gustave's brother, was the executor of the
legacy, wrote to Henri Roujon, the
Director of Fine Arts, informing him of the bequest. As
Roujon was unsure of how to proceed, he asked for advise from
established artists, and from his coleagues.
Jean-Léon Gerôme, one of the
official artists said that to accept the legacy
would be a sign of "moral turpitude" and the end of the nation. The burocrats, Roujon included, argued that "they did not have space to hang
the collection, and some artists (such as monet and Pisarro) would be heavily
over-represented"</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Usuario/Desktop/Alina/Trabajos%20publicados%20y%20presentaciones/Buenos%20Aires%20Herald/The%20Caillebotte%20legacy.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -.15pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">It took a long time for the French State to agree to the terms of the
legacy. In 1895 the Musée du Luxembourg
received some of the work. But it was
only in 1928 when the government finally said that they would accept the
remaining twenty-nine paintings. The
widow of Martial Caillebotte's brother then "repudiated the terms of the
bequest". Good for her! And so much for the contemporary appreciation
and success of Impressionist art.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD">Alina Tortosa<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Impressionism<u>, </u></i> Bernard
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Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-20204899582973774252017-05-28T13:20:00.000-07:002017-05-28T13:20:17.875-07:00 El camino del bosque en un día de calor <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-hyphenate: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-42064837917829960492016-11-30T05:19:00.000-08:002016-11-30T05:20:14.506-08:00The rift<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> In memoriam</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> Pablo Molinari</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">There was this rift in the family</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">when two of the dearest died</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">eight years apart</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">then another one died</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">dearest and closest</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">a beacon of light</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">lost in his suffering</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">and his efforts to interpret life</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">and his next of kin</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">tender and brightest he left</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">creating a dark and awkward hiatus</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">leaving behind</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">an area gloomed by questions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">unanswered </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">five more dearest were born </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">into the family</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">other generations</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">as beautiful clever and darling </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">as their elders</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">II</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">life goes on </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">taking its toll it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">goes on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">adding and subtracting</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">whatever took place</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">goes on taking place</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">unawares or conscientiously</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">people react differently</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">to loss and bereavement</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">there are those who turn to God </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">others to their next of kin</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">or friends</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">or turn into another</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">a shadow of themselves</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">inhabited by those</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">who left</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">there are no answers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">and no solutions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">to missing the dead</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">only a whiff of light</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">that turns experience</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">into partial understanding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">into meaning or the lack of it</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">III</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">how can others grasp</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">the feeling of despair</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">of the bereaved</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">before the tragedies</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">that could have been</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">avoided</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">who will concur</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">agree accept</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">with them</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">other than themselves</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">nobody dares</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">there is little</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">they can do</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">other than empathize</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">and people will not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">for it is to enter</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">themselves</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">into the domain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">of gloom</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">IV</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">one does not forget</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">the dearest dead</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">those closest to ourselves</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">siblings and offsprings</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">for were they not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">other versions </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">of ourselves</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">were they not ourselves</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">who partly died with them</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">and live the terms</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">of our separation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">as an ongoing experience</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">their absence as a presence</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">a reminder</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">that we in ourselves</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">are not complete</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">that there are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">depths of meaning</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">layers of understanding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">and misunderstandings</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">unresolved</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">V </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">one does not weep</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">out loud</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">as when they had </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">barely departed</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">there is the lingering</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">feeling of absence</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">of being torn apart</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">from those who should</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">be growing older with us</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">sharing discussing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">planning quarrelling</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">making up</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">trying to come to terms</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">with differences</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">one has lost worlds</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">of compatibility</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">worlds of caring</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">and be cared for</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">VI</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">their absence is still</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">relevant</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">discouraging</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">poignant</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">meaningful</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">their past and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">their unachieved present</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">reel on </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">a film in process</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">every day </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">of every week</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">of every month</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">of every year</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">through different</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">moods and perceptions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">rewinding in real time</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">or fast forward </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.2px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 13.2px;">it reels on.</span>Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-83147616022264799092016-11-24T03:46:00.000-08:002016-11-24T03:51:52.146-08:00On thinking <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -33.6pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">some of us do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">there are those<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alina Tortosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14235221888147464428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658802203167228060.post-73787498566545221692016-11-17T06:40:00.000-08:002016-11-17T06:40:52.285-08:00I am trapped by themI am trapped by them*<br />
my long time lovers<br />
there are too many of them<br />
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even if I ignore them<br />
they are there<br />
overwhelmingly present<br />
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shelves of them<br />
stacks on tables<br />
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how does one do without them<br />
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and how can I live with them<br />
crowding my space.<br />
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* from Autobiogardens and other poems, Sifipublishung, Cornwall, England, 2015<br />
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was through the gardens in literature that I sensed the importance of gardens
in a person's psyche. From the gardens
in fairy tales to Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini by Giorgio Bassani. Umbrous space and quiet brought out a certain
sensibility, central to an individual’s personality. It was also the place where a person could
hide from the world, or disguise her real intentions under other
preoccupations, as in The cherry orchard by Anton Chekov, or in a A voyage
round my father by John Mortimer. My
childhood memories were closely linked to gardens, but it was only when writing
Autobiogardens that I realized that my interest in gardens in literature stemmed
from the experience of my own perception of the gardens I grew up
in. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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