Minerva: prow to the future

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We are less than a week away from the start of the season of Vela Latina Canaria and the boats are getting ready, soaking their hulls and maneuvers, with the first edges against the wind, pulling the sheet, to get as close as possible to the wind to seek the spirit and soul of the boats, which were born to face the wind and become the first.

The Minerva has not been left behind. This season we have been in the water since the second week of February, with the renewed hopes of going to the Tunnel to compete as we have always done, with the humility and veteranship that the 85 years of existence have given us, in which we have been up, in the middle and, also, down, but we have never lost the attitude of going out to compete no matter how strong the winds were; the Minerva has always been, is and will be there.

So here we are with the bow looking to the future, but also looking to the past to learn from our mistakes and know that objectives and goals are achieved with work, with a lot of teamwork. There is no other choice.

In the end we are left with the moments lived, those that led us to victory, but also to defeat, and those moments will continue to shape our history, that history of which we feel so proud.

Natural embrace

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On other occasions I have commented that nature never ceases to amaze me and some time ago I came across this image in a park of Ingenio.

The image is clear, a tree that hugged a palm tree to stay standing and not lose its balance and continue living and growing, although later, with the passage of time, ended up dying and the palm tree continued its way to the skies.

How many times have we needed someone like that palm tree! A friendly hand to help us, to hold us when we are about to fall into the abyss and to save us.

The sad thing is that we don't always find that log to hold on to, to keep us on our feet and follow our way with a firm floor and we get lost and, many times, we don't know how to get back.

Although it can also have another reading, that of impossible love, that misunderstood love, in the style of Romeo and Juliet; Montescos and Capuletos who did the unspeakable to prevent their love.

That embrace can mean the unconditional love of the tree for the palm tree, a love without any condition; only the natural and great love.

In short, nature gives us lessons because it knew, they have been learning from their mistakes for millions of years and we must learn from it.

Fronteras

Fuente: propia

Ya estamos frente a frente,
tú con tus ganas de perderte dentro de mí,
yo con las ganas de romper el frío
y dejarme llevar por el desenfreno,
rompiendo las fronteras invisibles,
y los muros del no lo entiendo.

Dejarte llevar, acercarte a mí,
romper el tiempo del café,
saltar el abismo de la mirada del sí, pero no,
recoger el roce furtivo y darle el debido abrigo,
que crezca como una onda en el mar
y sea un maremoto del que no pueda escapar.

Soñar con atravesar tus labios,
rescatar un beso, luego otro,
y así hasta conquistar las montañas que te cobijan, 
hasta quedarme a dormir en tus praderas.

Al final seguirá el tiempo del café,
de las miradas perdidas,
de los ojos que dicen,
de los roces que van y que se escapan,
y tú seguirás.

The 11M and the miserable

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March 11, 2004 was a sad day for all Spaniards, a day that was engraved with bombs, blood and dead in the minds and hearts of all of us who live in this country.

I still remember the first moments of bombing, nobody knew who had planted the bombs and why. We were all listening on the radio, waiting for the number of fatalities to stop, but it did not stop, and the figure continued to rise until it reached the terrifying figure of 193 people and almost two thousand people suffered injuries of varying degrees.

We all look towards ETA because you will have from the terrorist group there were very bloody and despicable attacks, like the one in Hipercor, but when Arnaldo Otegi said that ETA had not been, we wondered who was behind the attacks.

The government, headed by Interior Minister Ángel Acebes, insisted that ETA was the author of the attacks, when the media, headed by the SER network, claimed that those responsible could be jihadists. This was confirmed.

The government maintained its position that those responsible should be sought in the terrorist group ETA, because the elections were just a stone's throw away. On March 14 there were elections and the government did not want the attacks to be related to Spain's intervention in the war in Iraq, but there is no doubt that this was the reason.

However, the lie cost them dearly. The Popular Party lost the elections of March 14, 2004, for trying to manipulate the bloodiest attack that has occurred in Spain to win an election.

Fifteen years later, with a police investigation of the most arduous, with a trial with thousands of pages and two judgments, one from the National High Court and the other from the Supreme Court, some still maintain that everything is still unclear in relation to the 11M attacks, which are still loose ends. These approaches are miserable and are an insult first to justice and then to each and every one of the victims of that terrible attack.

Yes, those who still doubt the authorship of the 11M attacks are miserable, because they only look for the electoral revenue, without thinking about the pain they cause to the victims and the damage they cause to the prestige of the Spanish justice system. It seems, like then, that they are only interested in winning an election, importing very little of the truth of what happened on March 11, 2004.

¿Qué audiolibro he escuchado? Basura de Héctor Abad Faciolince

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OPINIÓN

El pasado lunes terminé de escuchar Basura Héctor Abad Faciolince, una novela que ganó el I Premio Casa de América a la Narrativa Americana Innovadora. Lo cierto es que la novela está muy bien escrita y uno se percata de que el autor domina el oficio de escritor, porque usa multitud de recursos literarios para presentarte al personaje, Davanzati, que es el autor que tira casi todo lo que escribe y que el narrador recoge de la basura.

También es bien cierto que la novela, al estar construida con trozos recogidos aquí y allá, por momentos se convierte en un galimatías y tienes que estar muy atento para no perderte y, al tiempo, desesperarte o aburrirte de la lectura.

FICHA TÉCNICA

Formato: Audiolibro.
Editorial: Libervox.
Lengua: CASTELLANO.
ISBN: 9788416526208.

SINOPSIS

Bernardo Davanzati es un escritor desencantado y que todo lo que escribe lo tira a la basura porque entiende que no merece ser leído ni publicado. Sin embargo, un vecino comienza a recoger de la basura todos sus escritos, a leerlos y, de alguna manera, a criticarlos.

What have I seen on Netflix? The Boy who harnessed the wind

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Last Sunday I finished watching The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, a BBC production distributed by Netflix and based on a true story. A film that impressed me very much because it talks about some realities of Africa that we don't know, about how technology can help to solve many of the difficulties that are happening there and that makes you think about that other world that is there, but that we don't know.

he Boy Who Harnessed The Wind is also a song for perseverance in an idea, which you know can work and can end up helping the community in which you live.

A film not to be missed and to be watched in peace.

TECHNICAL DATA SHEET

Production company: BBC Films / BFI Film Fund / Blue Sky Films / Head Gear Films / Lipsync Post / Metrol Technology / Participant Media / Potboiler Productions. Distributed by Netflix.

Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Script: Chiwetel Ejiofor 

Date: 2019.

Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Joseph Marcell, Aïssa Maiga 

Duration: 113 minutes.

SYNOPSIS

A boy lives in his flesh the hardships that his family and his village are suffering because of the lack of water, which makes his family unable to cultivate. So he decides to build an air-generator to draw water from the well on his farm. The idea is a good one, but it is very complicated to carry it out.

Useful waste

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Sometimes only the waste remains, which, at first glance, is of no use at all, only to increase the volume of the rubbish bin.

In nature almost everything has a second use, even a third and a fourth and we have to learn from it, observe how everything is recycled in it: the organic is transformed and becomes part of the life cycle.

Humans must learn from it, to understand that everything can be reused and recycled, trying, by all possible means, to reduce the ecological impact of our passage through this earth.

In my house I have a small bucket with soil and there go all the organic remains. Over time I see how nature puts itself into action and transforms an egg shell into fertilizer for my garden.

Nature is wise and it is clear; the only way to maintain itself without collapsing is to reuse and recycle all that it produces and for this it has millions of pieces of equipment that do nothing but dedicate themselves to this task, from the microscopic bacteria to the vultures.

However, humans do nothing but consume and consume, without stopping to think that the earth we inhabit has a limit and needs an intelligent response and that response is at our fingertips. We only have to observe and act.

In all this I thought when I finished peeling and eating the orange.