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Monday, February 14, 2011

THE HUMAN HEART - EL CORAZON HUMANO


FELIZ DIA DEL AMOR Y LA AMISTAD

HAPPY LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP DAY

JOUR HEUREUX D'AMOUR ET D'AMITIÉ

GIORNO FELICE DI AMORE E DI AMICIZIA

DIA FELIZ DO AMOR E DA AMIZADE

GLÜCKLICHER LIEBES-UND FREUNDSCHAFT-TAG

DE GELUKKIGE LIEFDE EN DAG VAN DE VRIENDSCHAP

ΕΥΤΥΧΕΙΣ ΑΓΑΠΗ ΚΑΙ ΗΜΕΡΑ ΦΙΛΙΑΣ

СЧАСТЛИВЫЙ ДЕНЬ ВЛЮБЛЕННОСТИ И ПРИЯТЕЛЬСТВА

幸せな愛および友情日

愉快的爱和友谊天

愉快的愛和友誼天

행복한 사랑과 친교 일

 

Friday, February 4, 2011

PRAY IF YOU WANT TO!


PRAY IF YOU WANT TO!

Andy Rooney says:

I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I'm not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. I don't agree with Darwin, but I didn't go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his Theory of Evolution.

Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game. So what's the big deal? It's not like somebody is up there reading the entire Book of Acts. They're just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant safety to the players on the field and the fans going home from the game.

But it's a Christian prayer, some will argue. Yes, and this is the United States of America and Canada, countries founded on Christian principles. According to our very own phone book, Christian churches outnumber all others better than 200-to-1. So what would you expect, somebody chanting Hare Krishna? If I went to a football game in Jerusalem, I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer. If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad, I would expect to hear a Muslim prayer. If I went to a ping pong match in China, I would expect to hear someone pray to Buddha. And I wouldn't be offended. It wouldn't bother me one bit. When in Rome...

But what about the atheists? Is another argument. What about them? Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We're not going to pass the collection plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds. If that's asking too much, bring a pair of ear plugs. Go to the bathroom. Visit the concession stand. Call your lawyer! Unfortunately, one or two will make that call. One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don't think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world's foundations.

Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray before we go to sleep. Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing. Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease praying.

God, help us. And if the last 3 sentence offends you, well, just sue me.

The silent majority has been silent too long. It's time we tell that one or two who scream loud enough to be heard that the vast majority doesn't care what they want. It is time that the majority rules! It's time we tell them, “You don't have to pray; you don't have to say the Pledge of Allegiance; you don't have to believe in God or attend services that honor Him. That is your right, and we will honor your right; but by golly, you are no longer going to take our rights away. We are fighting back, and we WILL WIN!”

God bless us one and all... especially those who denounce Him, God bless America and Canada, despite all our faults, we are still the greatest nations of all. God bless our service men who are fighting to protect our right to pray and worship God.


Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Habana - Arte Nuevo de Hacer Ruinas


Habana - Arte Nuevo de Hacer Ruinas
Documental del director alemán Florian Borchmeyer.
Producido por Matthias Hentschler, 2005-2006.








Tuesday, February 1, 2011

OTRA ELEGÍA NECESARIA


(En Cuba, su tierra y la mía, ha nacido a la inmortalidad, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a quien no conocía)

Aun sin conocerte fui tu hermano
en la causa que hoy guías y enarbolas
erguido como palma, buen cubano.

Tu ejemplo como el golpe de las olas
ha servido de reconocimiento
y hoy Las Damas de Blanco no están solas.

Se convierte en valor el sufrimiento
y el pueblo se revela esperanzado,
y amenaza con un levantamiento.

Ya no quiere seguir esclavizado
por un régimen ruin y patricida,
y el tirano se siente acorralado.

No hay nada más preciado que la vida,
y tú la diste para vernos juntos
en la patria por todos tan querida.

Hoy te levantas junto a los difuntos
que han vertido su sangre en nuestro suelo,
para dar referencias como puntos

de estrellas que iluminan desde el cielo,
en la hora que asoma la alborada,
de ver al fin logrado nuestro anhelo.

Con una patria digna y liberada,
donde la gente pueda estar contenta
sin tener que sentirse pisoteada.

De tu ejemplo el cubano se alimenta
y protesta de oriente hasta occidente,
por una dictadura tan sangrienta.

Ya nadie puede estar indiferente,
no pueden los incautos ignorarte,
ascendiste de preso a disidente.

Dios te ha escogido para iluminarte
con la luz de una nueva primavera,
y para convertirte en un baluarte.

El quiere derribar esa frontera
de división, de odio y de rencores
y que vivamos una nueva era,

con una nueva escala de valores,
donde no sea delito hablar de quejas,
ni se premie la acción de los traidores.

A un héroe de leyenda te asemejas,
aunque el rango de héroe te has ganado
al desafiar las estructuras viejas.

Es por eso que honramos tu legado,
escrito en esas páginas gloriosas
de la historia de un pueblo renovado.

Pondremos en tu tumba Mariposas,
cuando llegue cada mes de febrero,
cantaremos tu historia en nuestras prosas,
para que te recuerde el mundo entero.



Hoy, casi a un año de la desaparición física de Zapata, escogí la poesía “Elegía”, de Miguel Hernández, como base para escribirle esta elegía a ese cubano que marcó la diferencia el día 23 de febrero de 2010. No merece el sacrificio de Orlando menos homenaje, ni el dolor que nos deja su repentina partida causa menos luto.

¡ZAPATA VIVE!

Sergio Jesús Fernández
1ro de febrero de 2010