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"Because memory is what resists time and its powers of destruction, and it is something like the form that eternity can assume in that incessant transit. And although we (our conscience, our feelings, our harsh experience) are changing as the years go by, and also our skin and our wrinkles are becoming proof and testimony of this transition, there is something in us, deep inside, there in very dark regions, clinging tooth and nail to our childhood and to the past, to the people and to the land, to tradition and to the dreams, which seem to resist that tragic process: memory, the mysterious memory of ourselves, of what we are and what we were"

Translated from the Original Spanish version: La Resistencia  /  Ernesto Sábato  /  Seix Barral,  2000

"Porque la memoria es lo que resiste al tiempo y a sus poderes de destrucción, y es algo así como la forma que la eternidad puede asumir en ese incesante tránsito. Y aunque nosotros (nuestra conciencia, nuestros sentimientos, nuestra dura experiencia) vamos cambiando con los años, y también nuestra piel y nuestras arrugas van convirtiéndose en prueba y testimonio de ese tránsito, hay algo en nosotros, allá muy dentro, allá en regiones muy oscuras, aferrado con uñas y dientes a la infancia y al pasado, a la raza y a la tierra, a la tradición y a los sueños, que parece resistir a ese trágico proceso: la memoria, la misteriosa memoria de nosotros mismos, de lo que somos y de lo que fuimos”

"I’m not sure when I first encountered the Serenity Prayer, or when it first occurred to me to ask who wrote it. For much of my life it never occurred to me that prayers were the kind of things that people actually wrote down, especially something as popular as the Serenity Prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to tell the difference.....” More at The Conversation ➜

"After many years of steady decline, the share of Americans who identify as Christians shows signs of leveling off – at least temporarily – at slightly above six-in-ten, according to a massive new Pew Research Center survey of 36,908 U.S. adults." More at Pew Research ➜

"On this 18th anniversary of the birth of The Marginalian, here are all of these learnings so far as they were originally written in years past, beginning with the present year’s — the most challenging and most transformative of my life.". Read more at The Marginalian

Step into the light.
Seize the day.
Don't let your wonder,
take away your freedom.

Life is too short,
hear what I say,
Tomorrow won't be here,
it will have gone away.

when the love,
of which you have spoken,
has been replaced by,
an aged, tarnished token,

then you too,
will have found love,
through the blessing,
of God above.

Think ye not,
of worldly claim.
Be at peace
staying the same.

If you would care
to come to me,
be the person,
you want to be.

When the Owl, leaves its nest,
beneath the Willow tree.
When all of the animals,
begin their migratory flee,

it will be time to resurrect,
how our quiet life, used to be.
When do you suppose, the love of another,
will bring forth a new reverie?

When you are offering to help
and there is no response.
Should you pursue or abandon,
a good relationship?

It's not what I want to do.
It's an obligation, to help.
There is nothing, Nada, included.
A life's commitment will be that,

simply that, nothing more.
I want to aide someone in
these, my last days, of life.
Why is that so difficult?

In early evening,
I fear the light,
when nighttime falls
and stars are bright.

What fear is there,
which lives in man,
when we must begin,
over and over, again?

A fear of the unknown,
or what lies ahead,
are often manifestations,
within our head.

To was philosophically,
in this place we dwell,
is most usually something,
on the Perdition Road to Hell.

Step up to the plate,
sharing your concerns,
but always remember,
it's how the world turns.

Life moves on,
away from here,
to another place.
Some place dear.

When the Worldly
places, where we live,
are no longer here,
then move to land above.

Topics change
as life advances,
to a different place,
with fewer chances.

Adapt you should,
for its best for you,
to understand what,
in life, you will do.