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Domingo, 08 de Septiembre de 2002 |
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Here's something I had to dig out from a notebook I keep. It's dated Sunday December 2, 2001.
| Hay algo siguiéndome. ¿Qué es? What is it, Daddy? No es una nube negra, ni una bestia voraz. Es una corriente fría, un viento conspicuo (?) que sopla con poca fuerza pero clava sus afiladas agujas en mi corazón. ¿De dónde viene? Siento que lo conozco de toda mi vida, pero no tengo idea de cuándo comenzó a soplar, ni porqué se aferró a mí. Solo sé que siempre está ahí. Y cuando bajo la guardia y creo que se ha ido, sigilosamente vuelve a envolverse a mí, como la mortaja que me cubrirá al final de mis días. |
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There's something following me. What is it? What is it, Daddy? It isn't a black cloud, neither a ravenous beast. It is a cold draft, a conspicuous (?) wind blowing mildly but nailing its sharp claws into my heart. Where does it come from? I feel as if I have known it my whole life, but I have no idea when it began blowing, nor why it holds on to me. All I know is it is always there. And when I lower my guard and think it has left, silently it wraps itself around me once more, like the shroud that will cover me at the end of my days. |
Today I feel that wind blowing through my nerves once again.
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| 6:57:22 PM | | |
I'm of two minds regarding how to understand the September 11 attack. Most everyone outside the US of A (including Latin America and mi México lindo y querido) think the States had it coming. Living here in the States, I just wonder if that is a fair observation, if the people who died that day actually "had it coming."
No doubt there's a need to rework foreign policy in the States. A war with Iraq won't help stop the turmoil in the Middle East. The way the current administration dismisses international agreements only makes the rest of the world more bitter about "the Americans."
But I always return to the duality I see here. There is the Government of the US of A, who were sent a message when the planes went down on the WTC and the Pentagon that day: "We can strike you and you'll never see it coming." And then there is the people of the US of A, who never did anything to earn their fate coming out of the blue that day. No one ever really earns it.
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| 1:39:13 PM | | |
Daniel Gross and Steven Goldstein
September 1, 2002
Daniel Gross, a vice president of GE Capital, and Steven Goldstein, owner of a public affairs consulting firm, will affirm their partnership in Vermont on Sunday.
This is what happens for not checking on the papers for a whole week: Just found out that the NY Times printed their first "Weddings" story for a gay couple last week, and it seems that Slate's Timothy Noah was right when he mused, regarding the aristocratic nature of the nuptials section, there was "little reason to believe that a female telephone receptionist's civil union with a female dental assistant stands any greater chance of getting a Times write-up under the new, more 'inclusive' policy than it ever did under the old." Check the credentials of the happy couple:
Mr. Goldstein, 40, is the founder and owner of Attention America, a public affairs consulting firm in Manhattan. He was a co-manager of Jon S. Corzine's campaign in 2000 for the Senate from New Jersey. A summa cum laude graduate of Brandeis, Mr. Goldstein holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard and a master's in journalism and a law degree from Columbia.
He is a son of Carole and Dennis Goldstein of Bayside, Queens. His mother is a fund-raiser for the Friends of the Lukas Foundation, which she helped found to support the Lukas Community, a village for adults with developmental disabilities in Temple, N.H. His father is the founder and senior partner of the Barrister Reporting Service, a court transcription concern in Manhattan.
Mr. Gross, 32, is a vice president of GE Capital in Stamford, Conn., working on the financing of international projects like power plants and pipelines. He graduated cum laude from Yale, from which he also received an M.B.A. and a master's degree in environmental management. He was a Fulbright scholar in 1994-95 in Thailand, studying and teaching natural resources management at the Asian Institute of Technology near Bangkok.
He is a son of Merle and Barry Gross of Chicago. His mother ran Merle Ltd., a former coat manufacturer in Chicago. His father retired as a partner in Shefsky & Froelich, a Chicago law firm.
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