I don't know where to begin, nor if I should comment on it. Perhaps by warning that this narrative is unsuitable for every reader, especially younger ones. Although, if you think about it, maybe it is? If you want to eradicate moral connotations that end up reinforcing that which is to be avoided. Nevertheless, I confess, I find it hard to see teenagers engrossed in this reading without wise guidance on intimate relationships between women and men. I confess that I, approaching sixty years of age, found some passages uncomfortable. Not because I am puritanical in spirit. On the contrary, I think it is commendable for the audacity to expose some realities (contrasted by more than one in the diffuse daily life) that, conveniently, are looked at with a sidelong glance.

Celebro los resultados de la iniciativa número 19 (Amarnos es Arte – Una declaración de fe de nosotros mismos) en la columna del séptimo día de nuestro amigo @emiliorios de #HolosLotus. Sin duda, la síntesis de todas las declaraciones ancladas en reafirmar el amor propio y el despojarse de las culpas, nos lleva al primer paso hacia la maestría en el arte de amar.

Near the end of the month of love and friendship, I would like to share my thoughts on “Clarimonde” (The Dead Woman in Love) by Théophile Gautier. This short narrative is not to be missed for its themes and the splendid narrative style of the 19th-century French author.

I thought with some reservations about participating in this #HiveBookClub call for comments on the book that best captures unconventional loves. There will be many candidates out there. But, it seems reckless to point out a specific one, more so when it implies having read too much or being a good connoisseur of this theme within the literature. I admit to lacking such competence.

Desde que tengo memoria, he sido un cinéfilo y amante de la televisión. Incluso, en ocasiones, recibí merecidas críticas por abstraerme del mundo al ver películas. Quizás, una forma de evitar u olvidar momentáneamente, en el mejor de los casos, los problemas cotidianos. Ahora, soy más comedido, sigo disfrutando de este arte, en especial, si tratan temas de ciencia ficción, pero sin escapar de la realidad. Al contrario, intentó descubrir los propósitos subyacentes más allá de los mensajes denotados y connotados.

These days, much of the headlines are focused on advances in artificial intelligence. A technology that is more than seventy years in development, and which, now, thanks to the internet and computational and portable devices are within reach of the general public. In a way, it has eclipsed, not to say replaced, the boom of Blockchain-based decentralized ecosystems driven by an anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto when he launched Bitcoin, back in 2009, as a reaction to the real estate crisis that stripped many people of their homes.