THE SINISTER HAND

What an equivalence....Broken humerus=new skills.

Despite the pain and the inconvenience of having just one arm+hand available (functional), I feel
rather positive and optimistic since I got a chance to get new skills. I need challenges, either big or
small, to make my days more complete and meaningful, to keep going forward. In fact, I’d say
challenges are directions, impulses, strength.

Try, using just 1 hand, to....

...peel tangerines
...fold t-shirts
...open pots
...peel and eat bananas,
...put pantyhose on (easier than slim-fit jeans, actually)
...press ALT and ENTER keys at the same time (I use it often when working with MS Excel)
...knit (holding somewhere the needle with the work...and knitting left-handedly)...and cast on, of
course.

The so-called sinister hand is not that sinister when it becomes dextrous. What a pair of
adjectives. I read at Wikipedia about left-handedness and there was a lot of pretty interesting
information linking linguistics and prejudices and stigmas against left-handed people.

DIE ZEIT LÄUFT....ICH AUCH

In dieser neuen Zeit ist das Laufen nicht nur eine Idee, eine Chance zu haben sondern auch Etwas notwendiges. Freiheit durch Körperbewegung nach Freiheit nur durch Ideenbewegung. Diese neue Möglichkeit, die ich schon früher hatte glänzt heute, als eine neue und als die beste Möglichkeit.

Das Laufen der Zeit ist jetzt anders geworden, nicht mehr wie früher. Sie läuft jetzt neben mir, nicht davon und weitentfernt.

HI HAURIA TANT PER ABOCAR-HI...

En la visita al Cosmocaixa amb en Huang-lags (a.k.a. Jón), la curiositat va romandre fins el moment de travessar la sortida (bé, encara quedava entrar a la botiga del museu). Com un element més de les exposicions vam observar i comentar els contenidors de brossa ordenadament col·locats a l’edifici.

En comptes de “rebuig”, a un dels contenidors el text era “banal”. Ah...massa petit el contenidor si s’hi ha de poder abocar totes les banalitats....

Time beyond watches

Over 1 year ago, one day, suddenly I remembered an old watch that belonged to my mother.
Unfortunately there was nothing to do to have it working again. I ended up buying a similar
model: a Casio, instead of a Radiant (that was in mid June 2009).

Curiously, later on, it seemed that such kind of digital watches, were kind of “trendy”. I had just
followed a desire to wear something that had belonged to my mother, after the strange feelings
one goes across after some days at the hospital and later on, having to deal with an illness. We all
seek closeness to certain people in hard moments. Some material things do help, no matter how
expensive or cheap they were or they are.

There’s some time beyond watches flowing differently, where the present is blurry, where those
who were gone are back, where greener trees seem to grow inside oneself.

TRANS-LÚCIDA

teràpia

Passeja el cos, passeja l'ànima. Quina plenitud amb els peus dins aigües mediterrànies dòcils i transparents. Ni multituds ni cridòries; onades i esquitxos del caminar trencant el silenci.

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Passeig meditatiu, deixant que els pensaments vinguessin i anessin quedant-se amb les petjades, emportats tots per les onades.

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Vacuïtats i cadàvers de petits peixos víctimes de les dinàmiques marines. Pedres i trossos de vidre arrodonits. Els propis peus a través de les aigües. Mantenir l'equilibri en cada passa.

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Esdevinc translúcida.

no longer....

Some products impossible to find at stores.....and some stores that are no longer the same or don't even exist.

• Continente (among others, such as Pryca) became carrefour.

I kept a packet of odd paper: 63 g! It's even hard to find 70 g paper...

• Caprabo merged (sort of) with eroski and became caprabo amb eroski oder eroski.

I liked seeing the names and information about the products in catalan (well, Bonpreu supermarkets do so)...but seeing names and texts on products in basque, galician, spanish and catalan is interesting and one can learn some basic daily-life vocabulary.

아 ~, 진싸!!!

Really....these are scary times....What have people done to deserve such a govenrment?? Finally, yesterday there was a reaction to the situation, I mean, a real reaction, since the measures since then had been rather random and uneffective. However, such measures aren't the best at all...and it feels that they're taken too late, under pressure and rushing. Other parties had been saying to do changes and adopt certain policies for a long time but that useless politician the citizens have to suffer as head of the executive, was too stubborn and childish to accept them, to admit the situation was bad. It's never been a sign of intelligence to cover one's ears so as to ignore suggestions. It felt like "since it's x, who is bad, the enemy, who makes the suggestion, it's a bad suggestion and I'm going to ignore it". It's healthy and enriching to listen to different and even contrary opinions or to thoughts from those who think differently and then think about it.

아, 진싸...

The time when the ruling party boastfully talked about protecting the worker and avoiding cuts in social expenditure is not far away. The time when they boastfully called themselves socialist is neither far away from now....Worker's party? socialist party? Just seeing their salaries, the way they dress and the way they act places them far away from such adjectives...And how they love to waste money on useless things and trips....and how they love to appear smiling at some meetings and photographs.

Really.....there's a lot to say, a lot to be fed up with and too much to feel just too disappointed. Fortunately I didn't vote for them but for a party who got no representation in the Parliament.

Really....it's still too long until the next general election.

QUI VOL BESTIOLES LLIURES?

Fa poc han estat les consultes sobiranistes, en un moment en què hi ha qüestions més rellevants
en què pensar i temes pendents de resoldre o millorar. La identitat no servirà com a crostó de pa
per la gana. Només ens fa menys lliures i ens tanca...però és interessant ficar en els caps idees
sobre identitats (ja poden ser nacionalismes, idolatries a marques o imatges, adoracions diverses)
per fer que les criatures humanes actuin sense donar gaires arguments. s'ha de fer això perquè
sóm un grup, un col.lectiu d'iguals, una comunitat diferenciada. Res més.

Diria que és millor veure el que uneix les bestioles humanes: veure la diversitat com riquesa, no
pas com trets diferenciadors. Per què les cultures han de ser patrimoni de comunitats concretes?
Tant per aprendre i per compartir que hi ha...

Les banderes no són més que draps pintats. Sense draps, nus, tots esdevindriem iguals. Nus,
sense etiquetes ni aferraments, més feliços i menys cecs.

en els temps que corren....

...mocadors en packaging estilós.

M'han agradat els mocadors del bonpreu. Són diverses les marques blanques que presenten dissenys allunyats del que podria considerar-se cutre o hortera. Al marge de la situació econòmica i la bona opció que són els preus de les marques de les distribuidores i les marques blanques, aquestes van presentant cada cop més dissenys més agradables. Molts han anat canviant els dissenys millorant (ex: els productes d'higiene i cosmètica del Mercadona, diversos productes de l'Alcampo, canviant-li els colors cridaners a l'ocell del logo...)

Yellow-Forward

A brand-new age? It seems so. This time it might feel different since so many things have been changing inside and out. Illness, new projects, different perspectives and finally, the feeling of having found a path. Having started with advertising studies seems to be the right decision. I wonder why couldn’t I see it before. I always liked to think and remember ads, I even cut ads from magazines....and recorded or downloaded some, enjoyed watching tv programmes about adverts (the last one I remember was “La Rentadora”, on Tv3). What kind of blindness is that? Turning 28 and seeing clearly things about oneself and paths to take in life is better than keeping blind in that sense and keep going nowhere, keep losing energy, fading because of lacking dreams.

Stop, think, pick up something and choose a more suitable way. It won’t mean going backwards but getting better prepared instead, so as to keep moving better, smoothly. On yellow high-heel boots. a Bright and vivid colour to make steps shinier, more pleasant.