JaZzArt en València

Ana de Lacalle, licenciada en filosofía y profesora, nos habla de la cultura, de la filosofía y del arte y la literatura mientras compartimos una …

Hablando hoy con Ana de Lacalle

Now I have known Cindy’s work for a few years and I am always delighted with her poetry and her wonderful, uplifting and positive advice. As she has …

A Casual Chat With Cindy…

Edwin Starr dijo: «¡Guerra, para qué sirve, absolutamente para nada!». Frase fenomenal para una canción, («War«/Edwin Starr), pero no se ajusta para nada a la realidad. La guerra es, sin duda, la invención más estúpida del hombre, pero es y ha sido una realidad para la humanidad desde la Creación. La guerra provoca sufrimiento, muerte, destrucción, desplaza a las personas, cuesta dinero y, ¿qué logra?

Bueno, algunas guerras son un total y completo sinsentido y hemos visto demasiadas de esas en las últimas décadas. Si tienes que gastar más de una breve oración explicando las razones de una guerra, (como que son para evitar el llamado «efecto dominó»), no tienes una razón válida. Una guerra justa puede y debe ser explicada con una o dos palabras. La Segunda Guerra Mundial fue una guerra para liberar al mundo de la locura de Hitler y los nazis. Fácil de explicar, pero intenta explicar la guerra entre EEUU. e Irak. No es tan fácil…

Ahora hay nuevas guerras en nuestro plano de existencia y uno puede preguntarse con razón «¿cuándo terminará esto?» y sospecho que nunca. Mientras exista la maldad, habrá guerra: Guerras por conquista territorial, guerras para exaltar ideologías, por exterminio racial o afán religioso, por venerar el odio, y todas se ajustan al denominador común, por lucro. Creo que esas son las principales razones de hoy en día y lo defino simplemente diciendo que causan sufrimiento para que otros se forren.

Hay demasiadas armas en este mundo y demasiado ambición de poder. La humanidad no está interesada en el amor, y me pregunto si los hombres alguna vez lo han estado.

Démosle una oportunidad a la paz, como dijo John Lennon…

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Edwin Starr said «War, what is it good for, absolutely nothing!». It was a great line for a song, but not a rather realistic statement. War is the stupidest invention of mankind, for sure, but it is and has been a reality for mankind since Creation. War creates suffering, death, destruction, displaces people, costs money and what does it accomplish?

Well, some wars are total and complete nonsense and we have seen too many of those in the last few decades. If you have to spend more than a brief sentence explaining the reasons for a war, (like a domino effect), you have no valid reason. A rightful war can, and should, be explained with a word or two. WWII was a war to free the world from the madness of Hitler and the Nazis. Easy to explain, but try to explain the war between the US and Iraq? Not too easy…

Now there are new wars, in our plane of existence and one will be quite justified asking «when will it ever end» and I suspect never. As long as there is evil in the world there will be war. Wars for conquest, war to justify political, racial or religious bigotry and hatred, and war for gain. Those seem to be the primary reasons in this day and age. Suffering generated for someone’s gain. There are too many weapons in this world and too much ambition of power. Mankind is not interested in love, and I wonder have men ever been?

Let’s give peace a chance like John Lennon said…

Francisco Bravo Cabrera, Turkey, 2024.

Bueno, pasaron muchas cosas extraordinarias ese año pero para mi la más importante fue que John Lennon y Paul McCartney se conocieron y eso hizo posible la creación de The Beatles…

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A lot of great things happened in 1957 but for me the most important one was the meeting between John and Paul that led to the eventual creation of The Beatles…

GRACIAS – CHEERS

Ok so this band is classified as American-British, so what? Who makes the bloody rules? Anyways, Chrissie Hynde is from Ohio. In 1973 she moved to London and then, eventually, The Pretenders happened. I loved this band in the early 1980’s. Hits? Wow! They’ve a million! Some of my faves is «Back on the Chaingang» (1982); «Brass in Pocket» (1979) and «Don’t Get Me Wrong» (1986) and all the rest. I think you get it.

It was 1979 and the band released their first single, a Kink’s song «Stop Your Sobbing«, then «Kid» and in January 1980, (forty five years ago!) they had their first No. 1 (UK), «Brass in Pocket«, and number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 (US).

So, you, yes you, did you like the Pretenders?

CHEERS

El Francisco que veis no es el Francisco, ni el Bodo Vespaciano, verdadero, pero estas obras si lo son…

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Bailar sin mover el culo es como comer sin mover los dientes…

La dinámica del baile se nutre de nuestros pensamientos más íntimos y de nuestros sueños…

El cuerpo determina el limite de nuestros movimientos porque la cabeza sigue girando, vacilando y creando nuevos pensamientos…

Bailar es entrar en otra dimension, pasear por el multiverso, conversar con los estímulos más básicos, pero relegados a la oscuridad hasta que los pies se empiezan a mover y el culo a girar,

¡Venga, que estamos bailando!

Pero bailando sobre las tenues tablas que cubren el estercolero. La corrupción ha llevado a tantos al cubo de basura de la historia y lo estamos viendo, o sea estamos viviendo esa historia en estos momentos. Parece mentira que todavía podamos bailar, pero nos hace falta hacerlo para ver si no salen más de allí dentro los culpables y los traidores.

Dos besos y un abrazo a todos,

GRACIAS

El Francisco que veis no es el Francisco, ni el Bodo Vespaciano, verdadero, pero estas obras si lo son…

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The Torah commands us to love God above all things, our neighbour, and to love the stranger. And although it does not say to love our parents it does say that we are commanded to respect and honor them. Well, you cannot respect someone that you do not love and love ultimately leads you to honour the loved one, so it went without saying in the Torah, but we are indirectly commended to love our parents as well…

Then he said «love is not jealous…»

Jealousy is a disease that corrupts the mind of the jealous person, disturbs the peace of mind of the object person and destroys relationships. Jealousy is insecurity, lack of self-control and lack of self-worth. Those deficiencies can lead one to a very rocky existence and drive most others around away. Jealousy is not love as it is not giving. It is an obsession and a desire for control. The jealous person senses that he/she is unworthy of the other person’s respect and love and fidelity, therefore he/she suffers the pain of their insecurity and the distress it causes.

Saint Paul, in his epistle, to the Corinthians (I Corinthians 13) clearly states what love is and his definition/explanation cannot be surpassed. We will discuss the various aspects of love as defined in I Corinthians 13:4-7 and I would suggest that you take a look at those verses as they can make a positive impression on your life and improve the quality of your relationships. We should remember that the Bible is a holy book.

As we learn and live we should strive to love more. To love God (whichever way you conceive God to be) and to love your neighbour. And if you do not know who your neighbour is, well think of anyone in need as your neighbour, needing your love and your succour. And I would remind everybody in every country of the world that we must include, among those we love, the stranger, the refugee, the desperate ones that have travelled far and crossed many borders to get to your «home» which is now their home for God made the world for all His children.

Chapter 3 is forthcoming with the rest of I Corinthians 13:4-7. Many blessings

CHEERS

Que poco Casio le hacen a esto los legisladores, madre mía!