Mente Sana

  Lo que comparto con Esteban es mucho, desde que nació hasta el día de hoy. Él ha cambiado mi vida y la manera en que veo las cosas. Es una perfección, porque cada día quiero asimilarme su manera de ser, callado, en su mundo, impenetrable. Todas estas cosas en el trajín de vida ultrasocial que llevamos tienen sus detractores y enemigos. Los padres naturalmente somos menos apegados a los hijos que las madres, porque tenemos diferentes funciones: ustedes se preocupan más por ellos, y temen más, y a veces esa neurosis afecta a los hijos, por lo que la naturaleza lo balancea haciendo que los padres empujen a sus hijos a ser más autónomos y seguros de sí mismos. De hecho, muchos estudios demuestran que los criminales provienen mayormente de hogares donde hay ausencia de padre. Cierto que cuando vivía bajo el mismo techo, no era que “parrandeara” a diario; a diario, trabajaba y era lo único que sabía hacer. Más que escritor, trabajador. Y eso no lo puedes negar. Que bebiera, no era cues...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwjZAVrybsA  Mr. Gabor Mate is a must. 

I've always worked more than forty hours a week for more than thirty long years, 17 of which I spent at a prestigious site working for a contract company. I won't mention names, because the idea is not to spite those who currently tag along my every step and obfuscate me everywhere I go. They, too, have changed and I cannot in all fairness say that things have not gotten slightly better. I was demoted, taken off the site I worked at for years, and subsequently fired from the next as the Coronavirus ravished nationwide without as much as a notice. Even before those things unfolded, I realized much later on, I've been targeted as were many others who had worked and lived here in the great U.S. of A.  Following are a list of things that take place in a shelter in Jamaica, Queens, where I have been staying since late December, 2021. They have, as of yet, not helped with any of the complaints raised. At no point have I felt unsafe, not even when a roommate took a knife out and t...

¨ Life is but a mask worn on the face of death¨ -Joseph Campbell.  Joseph Campbell's quote, that of a mask worn on the face of death, seems apt for the times we live in. Statistically, more than 25,000 people die of hunger each day in the world, the vast majority of these children. Coronavirus kills people with a compromised immune system, roughly 2% of those who are infected, and out of this margin, 2% approximately will die from the disease. It is well-known that people with other serious health risks or those of advanced age, or suffering from preexisting conditions such as diabetes or asthma are at a higher risk; other groups, such as pregnant women , obesity, smoking , heart-disease and sickle cell disease , as well. With a population of over one billion people, China had one million people infected, of which slightly over 5,000 died. In contrast, the U.S., with over 96 million people infected, had more than a million deaths. China's response to the virus, aided by the ...