Month: April 2016

  • The craft of waking

    The craft of waking

    Rising earlier does not make the day begin before Magnifico would quietly think a small while, before he answered: “But I really do try! It’s just that my eyes won’t open earlier. But really, I try very hard and put all I have into it, but, somehow, I just don’t wake up any earlier”. His father listened to…

  • The dreams of a placid cow

    The dreams of a placid cow

    Where have you gone, when with you eyes closed, you forget the world? After the break, they only had to milk Agustina, a dark brown cow, and Ramona, black on the outside and black with, the virtual queen of bad temper, always disagreeing with the way things were done. Once the milking was done, it was…

  • The first love

    The first love

    As the years went by, he began to lose all his memories, all but one… his first love   Paseo de la Reforma Av.         Chapultepec, Cdmex, Mexico The time for the coffee break was after having milked Lencha, followed by Eugenia, and concluding with Maria Camila. This last cow, was Lencha’s youngest…

  • And a black mule called Georgina

    And a black mule called Georgina

    His dream was very simple… before dying spend a never ending summer beneath its sun, in a house with an orange clay-tiled pitched roof      And sometimes during the coffee break, Magnifico, who at the time was known by a different name, the name of his childhood days, asked his father: “Daddy, sir. How is…

  • The little village school

    Outside,  a universe was waiting… until the day he learned to read A daily routine, possibly simple and straightforward, but still, it gave a meaning to his life. Certainly, it also gave him the possibility of earning the bread he ate at breakfast, which he would later enjoy together with his parents at home. By…