I'm not in the mood for jokes today. My heart feels heavy after reading the news about the senseless killing spree in Aurora, Colorado.
I feel very sad for the lives cut short and my thoughts go to the families and friends of the victims.
How can we hope this will be the last time such a tragedy happens in the US when the gun lobby is so incredibly powerful?
Friday, 20 July 2012
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Family
I had a strange day today. The weather wasn't all that wonderful, so we decided to stay at home. Billy and Sandra kept themselves busy, working out, cutting the grass and getting on with other exciting chores while I scanned dozens of old photos for a private Facebook group (family only) created by one of my nieces. The family is very large and we live all over the world: Brazil, Spain, France, the States, England and Australia. Everybody has been very busy posting their photos, which made us miss our dear departed relatives and also sparked some lively discussions about the identity of one particular baby. After a lot of detective work, we decided it was a photo of my eldest niece. That was fun!
One particular picture brought back very fond memories of a remarkable man, my proudly Spanish grandfather:
Needless to say, I'm incredibly homesick, but the word is not quite accurate, what I miss right now is not a place, it's a different time, a time when the people I still love very dearly were still around... which brings me to a paradox: If I were to go back in time, quite a number of people who are here now wouldn't exist! If only we could merge the past and the present (only for a while), we could all have a big family party. That would be something!
One particular picture brought back very fond memories of a remarkable man, my proudly Spanish grandfather:
Needless to say, I'm incredibly homesick, but the word is not quite accurate, what I miss right now is not a place, it's a different time, a time when the people I still love very dearly were still around... which brings me to a paradox: If I were to go back in time, quite a number of people who are here now wouldn't exist! If only we could merge the past and the present (only for a while), we could all have a big family party. That would be something!
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Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Having fun
The posts will be patchy, as I expected. We had a nice day at our lake beach. The weather should be nice for the next few days, so we have to make the most of it.
Chat away, my friends.
[No, Pallottine, you can't carry over a "first" from the last post...]
Monday, 16 July 2012
The power of positive thinking
We'll have a guest for the next couple of weeks, so the posts may get a bit patchy. Actually, we'll have two guests, as Billy is already here. His on-off-on-off girlfriend arrives tomorrow.
We're great believers in the powers of positive thinking, aren't we? The next task is to concentrate our powers into helping Billy see that this gorgeous girl is definitely ON!
We're great believers in the powers of positive thinking, aren't we? The next task is to concentrate our powers into helping Billy see that this gorgeous girl is definitely ON!
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