TURNING POINT

 Galaxy

By: Sylvia Davila MM

Bogotá/Copyright

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Illustrations: Google Images
March 12/2011

                                                  

Hurricane 

Whirlpool 

                                                                                                 

Tornado

(Photos: Google)

To see that wave washing away highly industrialized Nippon efforts, so easily… so unstoppable, so determined, makes us think. The world’s third economy’s production floating, drifting away like toys. When Nature speaks nothing else counts and, recently, it has been talking often and loud. Perhaps we should give it more attention and figure out a different aim to our efforts. Global warming with all its consequences is just beginning to show a profound universal change that is, in fact, taking place. Some see it. Others call it an unnecessary fuss. Japan’s tragedy arrives to make a point at a very high cost: industrialization hits a wall when Nature is concerned and nature’s havoc cannot be denied these days. Perhaps a new global vision is required for a world that is at the threshold of a turning point.

March 12/2011 - SILVIA DAVILA MORALES® 

EL DISCURSO DEL REY

By: Sylvia Davila MM

Bogotá/Copyright

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Illustration: Google Images
Marzo 9/2011

ENGLISH VERSION

THE KING SPEACH

http://www.pipolmagazine.com/2011/03/king-speach.html

Nunca deja de sorprender cuando la vida exhibe sus facetas más crueles en personas excepcionales. Beethoven sordo… Cervantes manco… O en figuras de la ficción, Christopher Reeves, Superman… parapléjico. O en un hombre tartamudo que crece seguro de que vivirá siempre a la sombra de su hermano, enfrentando la víspera de la Segunda Guerra Mundial  que pondría a su pueblo en la primera línea de fuego, y en el momento exacto en que la comunicación masiva despegaba con la radio. Un tartamudo…

Es como si la vida en sus complejos giros, quisiera enfatizar que es precisamente cuando es difícil - cuando parece imposible - cuando lo más fino del tejido humano surge. Beethoven escribió e inauguró la Novena Sinfonía cuando ya estaba totalmente sordo. La escribió sordo. Cervantes perdió el brazo izquierdo en la batalla de Lepanto. Con la mano que le quedó escribió El Quijote. El esfuerzo que hizo el Rey Jorge VI para hablar por la radio lo convirtió en símbolo de valor y determinación, virtudes que usaron los Británicos, los norteamericanos, los aliados para vencer a Hitler.

La ley de los extremos. Para estar a la altura del reto hay que estirarse. Siendo así, supongo que deberíamos preguntarnos cuál de todos nuestros defectos es el que mejor nos sirve bien./ Marzo 9/2011 - Silvia Davila Morales ®

THE KING SPEECH

By: Sylvia Davila MM

Bogotá/Copyright

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Illustration: Google Images
March 2/2011

It is always surprising when life displays its cruellest facets on remarkable people. Beethoven deaf, Cervantes lacked an arm. Or on fiction characters Christopher Reeves, Superman, quadriplegic. Or on a stammering man that grew up certain that he would always live under his brother’s shadow, facing the eve of the Second World War where his people was to be on the fire line, and precisely the moment when massive communications were being born, it’s first child, radio. A stammer…

It seems as if life whished to stress that it is precisely when hard - when it seems impossible - that human fine tissues surface. Beethoven wrote and performed the Ninth Symphony absolutely deaf. He wrote it deaf. Cervantes lost his left arm in battle at Lepanto with the hand left he wrote El Quixote. King George efforts to speak to his people on the radio made him a symbol of courage and determination, virtues used by the British to defeat Hitler.

Extremes law. To be up to the challenge it is needed to stretch. Being so, I guess we should stop worrying about defects and ask ourselves which one of them serves us well. / March 2/2011 - SILVIA DAVILA MORALES ®