LETRA DE LA CANCIÓN
Por la blanda arena
Que lame el mar
Su pequeña huella
No vuelve más
Un sendero solo
De pena y silencio llegó
Hasta el agua profunda
Un sendero solo
De penas mudas llegó
Hasta la espuma.
Sabe Dios qué angustia
Te acompañó
Qué dolores viejos
Calló tu voz
Para recostarte
Arrullada en el canto
De las caracolas marinas
La canción que canta
En el fondo oscuro del mar
La caracola.
Te vas Alfonsina
Con tu soledad
¿Qué poemas nuevos
Fuíste a buscar?
Una voz antigüa
De viento y de sal
Te requiebra el alma
Y la está llevando
Y te vas hacia allá
Como en sueños
Dormida, Alfonsina
Vestida de mar.
Cinco sirenitas
Te llevarán
Por caminos de algas
Y de coral
Y fosforescentes
Caballos marinos harán
Una ronda a tu lado
Y los habitantes
Del agua van a jugar
Pronto a tu lado.
Bájame la lámpara
Un poco más
Déjame que duerma
Nodriza, en paz
Y si llama él
No le digas que estoy
Dile que Alfonsina no vuelve
Y si llama él
No le digas nunca que estoy
Di que me he ido.
Te vas Alfonsina
Con tu soledad
¿Qué poemas nuevos
Fueste a buscar?
Una voz antigua
De viento y de sal
Te requiebra el alma
Y la está llevando
Y te vas hacia allá
Como en sueños
Dormida, Alfonsina
Vestida de mar.
Alfonsina y el mar es una zamba compuesta por los argentinos Ariel Ramírez y Félix Luna, publicada por primera vez en el disco de Mercedes Sosa Mujeres argentinas, de 1969. La canción es un homenaje a la poetisa de la misma nacionalidad Alfonsina Storni, que se suicidó en 1938 en el Mar del Plata, saltando al agua desde una escollera (aunque según la canción se internó lentamente en el mar).
Aunque Ariel Ramírez no conoció directamente a la poetisa, ésta fue alumna del padre de Ariel, Zenón Ramírez, que trasmitió a su hijo el drama de Storni. Impresionado por estos recuerdos y por las poesías de Storni, que le trajo Luna, Ramírez compuso la música, y Luna aportó después la letra.[1]
Breve Historia
El sábado 22 de octubre de 1938 una mujer -46 años- deambula en Buenos Aires hacia la estación de trenes, saca un billete, sólo de ida, para Mar del Plata. Se instala en una modesta residencial con el borroso designio de suicidarse. Se dice -la anécdota es oscura- que está enferma, cansada y anhela la muerte como una liberación. Quizás, en un banco desmantelado ocupa largas horas en repasar su vida. Tal vez emplea su tiempo en redactar el poema "Voy a dormir":
Voy a dormir, nodriza mía, acuéstame.
Ponme una lámpara a la cabecera;
una constelación; la que te guste;
todas son buenas; bájala un poquito.
Va al correo y envía el poema a La Nación. El lunes permanece la noche en vela con su confusión moral. Es probable que se escucharan gritos de rebeldía y palabras de sumisión. Habla consigo misma. Redacta una carta a su único hijo, Alejandro, de 26 años. A la una de la noche sale y va hacia el mar. Sus biógrafos aseguran que saltó al agua desde una escollera. El mito, sin embargo, más poético y más lleno de espíritu, que se internó lentamente en el mar.
Horas más tarde, dos jóvenes obreros que paseaban por la playa La Perla encontraron su cuerpo. Era Alfonsina Storni, una de las más importantes poetas del siglo.
Alfonsina Storni quedó inmortalizada en la canción "Alfonsina y el mar", de Luna y Ramírez:
Por la blanda arena que lame el mar
su pequeña huella no vuelve más,
un sendero solo de pena y silencio llegó
hasta el agua profunda.
Un sendero solo de penas mudas
llegó hasta la espuma.
Alfonsina Storni era géminis del año 1892. Dragón de fuego. Dijo alguna vez: «me llamaron Alfonsina, que quiere decir dispuesta a todo». Nació en un cantón de la Suiza italiana. Su familia se estableció en San Juan y más tarde, en 1901, se mudan a Rosario. Cuando Alfonsina tiene diez años, el negocio familiar es el "Café suizo", donde la niña lava platos y sirve las mesas. Su padre, depresivo y alcohólico, fallece en 1906. Alfonsina, que no para de escribir poemas, trabajó como cocinera y obrera de un taller de gorras. Se dedicó un poco al teatro. Terminó por recibirse de maestra.
A los 19 años ya escribe, recita, y publica en revistas. Y entonces, el amor. Dicen que de una velada literaria en Santa Fe Alfonsina obtuvo un romance y del romance obtuvo, como ocurre con mujeres jóvenes, un hijo, Alejandro, en 1912. Del parto nació otro verso celebrado: Yo soy como la loba, ando sola y me río... El hijo y después yo, y después,...¡lo que sea!
El padre de Alejandro -a pesar de los años, su nombre sigue oculto-, era casado, mayor y periodista.
Madre soltera y feminista, se traslada a Buenos Aires. En 1920 gana el Primer Premio Municipal de Poesía y el Segundo Premio Nacional de Literatura por Languidez. En 1925 sale Ocre. En 1926 se editan Poemas de amor. En 1934, publica Mundo de siete pozos y en 1938, Mascarilla y trébol, el último libro.
Alfonsina Storni, brava vocera de los derechos civiles de la mujer e impulsora de la Sociedad Argentina de Escritores, es generosa en amistades. En 1915 le pide al escritor Leopoldo Lugones que lea unos versos suyos: "Esto que me permito pedirle -escribe- tiene una razón. Mi libro se va a publicar en breve. Yo sé que se me tildará de inmoral".
En 1919 Amado Nervo llega a la Argentina como embajador de su país, y frecuenta las mismas reuniones que Alfonsina. Ella le dedica un ejemplar de La inquietud del rosal. «poeta divino», le escribe.
A Juana de Ibarbourou, a quien conoció en 1920 en Montevideo, le pareció alegre, chispeante, a veces aguda y sarcástica.
En 1922 se cruzó con el cuentista Horacio Quiroga. Aquí hay que detenerse un poco. Le gustó Quiroga. Obvio. La mezcla de desfachatado y bestia trágica de Quiroga era un imán que atraía a las mujeres. Sus biógrafos chismean también sobre la fama de conquistador de doncellas. ¿Calumnias? Observen esta carta de Quiroga: "Anda por Buenos Aires una admirable criatura de dieciséis años, a cuyo recuerdo soy fiel en razón de una noche que cené en su casa, ocupando la larga hora en buscar con mi pie debajo de la mesa lo que, ¡oh Dios!, me fue acordado encontrar con ajeno beneplácito. Aun llegué a bajar la mano, en pretexto de corregir la servilleta, y la coloqué, con la curva precisa, sobre su rodilla, un momento, un solo momento".
Se les vio juntos. Las fotos los muestran divertidos. Su amiga Norah Lange chismea que fue testigo de un juego erótico para chiquillos: Quiroga sostiene en el aire un reloj de cadena al que ambos tienen que besar por sus caras opuestas. En el momento preciso, Quiroga levantó el reloj. Pillín.
Un día la llamó por teléfono la chilena Gabriela Mistral. Deseaba conocerla. Al verla Gabriela quedó sorprendida: «Extraordinaria la cabeza, pero no por rasgos ingratos, sino por un cabello enteramente plateado, que hace el marco de un rostro de veinticinco años». Insiste la poetisa de Vicuña: «Cabello más hermoso no he visto, es extraño como lo fuera la luz de la luna a mediodía. Era dorado, y alguna dulzura rubia quedaba todavía en los gajos blancos. El ojo azul, la empinada nariz francesa, muy graciosa, y la piel rosada, le dan alguna cosa infantil que desmiente la conversación sagaz y de mujer madura».
En el famoso café Tortoni conoció a Federico García Lorca, cuando este fue a Buenos Aires a dirigir su obra Bodas de Sangre, entre 1933 y 1934. Le dedicó un poema, «Retrato de García Lorca»: «Irrumpe un griego /por sus ojos distantes (…). Salta su garganta /hacia afuera /pidiendo /la navaja lunada /aguas filosas (…). Dejad volar la cabeza, /la cabeza sola /herida de hondas marinas /negras…».
En el verano del 1935, supo la temible noticia: tenía cáncer de mama. Fue operada, pero el cáncer continuó. Pasó depresiones. Desde entonces llama al mar en sus poemas y habla del abrazo de la mar y de la casa de cristal que la espera allá en el fondo, en la avenida de las madréporas. El suicidio contagia el ambiente. En 1937 Horacio Quiroga también se enferma de cáncer. Una medianoche toma su ración de cianuro. Alfonsina Storni lo despidió con versos conmovedores: "Morir como tú, Horacio,/en tus cabales, Y así como en tus cuentos, no está mal". Luego Leopoldo Lugones se envenena.
Storni, dragón de fuego, le ruega al mar, su cólera, su fiereza:
Oh mar, dame tu cólera tremenda,
Yo me pasé la vida perdonando,
Porque entendía, mar, yo me fui dando:
"Piedad, piedad para el que más ofenda".
Dame tu sal, tu yodo, tu fiereza,
¡Aire de mar!... ¡Oh tempestad, oh enojo!
Desdichada de mí, soy un abrojo,
Y muero, mar, sucumbo en mi pobreza.
Al fin, el mar la pidió a ella. Y, en el lugar donde bajó dispuesta a todo, un lunes por la noche, hay una estatua en su honor, que mira el mar.
7/14/2010
ALFONSINA STORNI
THE HAPPINESS PROJECT by GRETCHEN RUBIN
Gretchen Rubin, author of "The happiness Project". She talks about strong relationships as a key to be happier, Know thyself, make your bed, imitate your spiritual master, write one sentence journal, For St. Theresa by doing small things you may achieve great and big goals, Does Blogging make you happier?, when people have reached a certain level of prosperity they think about higher things, being surrounded by an atmosphere growth, stop hating happy people, it is more social encouraging to be enthusiastic thant being critical,...........
7/12/2010
SOMOS CAMPEONES DEL MUNDO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Esa copa que tantos campeonatos hemos visto desde la distancia levantar a Maradona, Cannavaro, Ronaldo o Zidane, ahora es nuestra.
7/09/2010
YOU CANNOT INSTALL NEW CORE VALUES IN PEOPLE
Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, Built to Last and How the Mighty Fall talks in this video about the Six Attributes Every Employee Needs.
7/08/2010
The Cove Film - Has nothing to do with Flipper´s Story
Academy Award® Winner for Best Documentary of 2009, THE COVE follows an elite team of activists, filmmakers and freedivers as they embark on a covert mission to penetrate a remote and hidden cove in Taiji, Japan, shining a light on a dark and deadly secret. Utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras in fake rocks, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide. The result is a provocative mix of investigative journalism, eco-adventure and arresting imagery, adding up to an unforgettable story that has inspired audiences worldwide to action.
6/30/2010
IGNITE YOUR GENIUS
Developed nations are worried about the current economic situation even more than developing countries and fast growing economies. It is hard to understand that highly skilled and well trained peers, with degrees, post-graduates, and years of working experience are shaking to death about their future. Finding ourselves surrounded by welfare and a healthy business fabric confers a sense of security and stability, that in a sudden, has melted away. I therefore infer that in countries where education, health system, justice and employment are not granted rights but an exception, they are not worried at all, as they are in the same place they were before the crisis started.
When the media writes or broadcasts the financial situation as if the whole world should be mourning the economical downward that developed countries are going through, I imagine the citizens from Mali, India, Senegal, Mexico, Bolivia or Camboya lighting their candles and praying, hoping their “developed brothers” may recover fast from such an awkward moment. I called up from Spain to my friend living in Mexico and my comment was, “well yes.. we have beaten the unemployment threshold of 4 million persons”, and he answered “ do not worry about it man, in Mexico there are 40 million persons trying to climb up the ladder out of poverty and the economic rhythm has not plummeted at all, what crisis are you talking about?”.
If we do examine an average education process of a person in a developed country, we do obtain the following phasing, 10 years for basic education, 4 years in high-school, 6 years in University, 2 years with a post-graduate degree, and assuming we are talking of a good student, we come out with 22 years devoting ourselves so to acquire “knowledge and wisdom” that will supposedly provide us with a survival – kit so to take part in recruitment processess launched by private companies, that are happy to get the most qualified professional for their companies. If the system worked out well, in 22 years of dedication to learning we all should be prepared to construct airplanes, vessels, cars, and sometimes we hardly know how to write certain words.
APJ Abdul Kalam writes in the preface of his book “Ignited Minds”, [ I am writing this book to make my young readers hear a voice that says, Start Moving]…[As it is said, Thinking is the Capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution]. Traditional education structures established in developed countries, paradoxically underpin a system where thinking and enterprise or private initiative, as a tool to accomplish personal and professional goals, are completely forgotten and ignored, advocating as the main premise “hard work”, that most of the times is nonsense as the effort is not properly focused. Developed countries need to realize that the leit-motif to gear their government bodies is in reverese order, and it is urgent to put back in order and coordinate in an harmonious way Thinking, Enterprise and Hard Work.
It is well known there are “External Forces” blocking the entry of genius into certain business environments as it is perceived with fear whatever and whoever is not under control. Qualification and sharpness cannot be considered a menace neither for a company that leads a business segment or for a person or group of persons who are in charge of certain tasks within an organization. Mediocrity should not prevent brilliance and witty to blossom from within as nowdays world economies are waiting for a Renaissance Movement that could unleash that hidden genius, which will play a key role so to untangle the chaos the market economy is involved at.
But there are also “Internal Forces” that impedes genius to spring up in each and every corner of our streets, cities and countries. Within layers of society flow biassed concepts on what to do for a living. It would be great to earn money from something we love to do, but sometimes we are driven to study or work at things so to follow a social stream, meeting a certain stereotype obtaining some sort of approval or recognition. Ken Robinson describes in his book “The Element” the art of connecting with our passions and individual talents as “the place where the things we love to do and the things we are good at come together.” You find persons complaining about their line of work and I firmly believe this is the moment to pull up strenght from within and undertake those projects that have been settled on our inner thoughts waiting for a bold moment to be awaken and put them into action. If a person studies humanities and he discovers his real passion is to grow tomatoes or cucumbers and would love to have grocery stores round the country to sell its products, good for him!.
Hence if we do expell from our social framework, the external and internal forces that lay in a business environment, we come to the point that there are good opportunities for those with talent, education, decision making – authority and the passion to perform whatever they have always dreamt with. Human beings tend to find sparks in the outside world so to kick off their personal projects, and many times those clues come from insight thoughts during a time for reflection.
If citizens that belong to that group of developing nations have had the ability and have activated their creativity to run their own business or performed an inner-art for a living, professionals who live in developing nations, that have been provided with the survival-kit mentioned above, should at least open it and try it before it expires. If we, the professionals who live in developing nations keep blaming the state, nothing is going to happen, nobody will bring the bacon home and will solve out our problems. As I said before we have been given lots of years of educaction and now has come the moment to put into practice all we have been taught so to generate wealth. We have been behaving in an inactive manner, receiving public education, being assisted by a public health system, being protected by the state police, and now has come the time to generate wealth and profit on our benefit, wich will at the same time stimulate market economies.
Regarding Politicians they do not deceive people anymore as they have restricted credibility and this is a big problem becauase citizens worldwide will not step forward to put into action projects and plans unless they believe in a state that is responsible and likely to manage properly their needs and resources. Bail out plans to cover banks´ missmanagments should come along with a cost-cutting plan over government bodies as they have become too big for its boots. The math here is simple, income generating sums are lower than the bill amount that has to be paid by the state.
And now the problem is time, there is none to restructure government bodies or market economies from its roots, we have to react and the most selfish way to benefit ourselves is to start thinking on generating income from our own skills, as if we keep still, waiting for a personal bail out plan to be received at our mail-box, I can tell you, that moment will not come. To have the philosophy of reconstructing our countries as if we had had the third world war and have to build up the whole thing again would not be an exaggeration, as the market economy as we did know it till now has been destroyed by a whirlpool of errors and missmanagments.
The current situation brings a time of reflection that shall allow us to spend time thinking and planning what to do next. The hardest we fight individually so to squeeze at the utmost our strengths and skills, the faster we will lift our situation out of this economic turmoil we are sunken at. The time for a Renaissance is yet to come in each and every field that has lost the least level, progress and evolution demands, and such phenomenon shall not be accomplished unless we all push hard and forward, as if we had to attack the problem at the grass roots.
Spend some time thinking, searching for the project, setting the plan, choosing the tools, marketing your ideas, fitting the budget, reading books and magazines, listening to renowned people with background in the specific field you will be focused at, writing articles, essays, and pour into your project passion, and by doing this, you´ll find that niche or that place in the market you are comfortable with.
As a conclusion I encourage professionals to find their “Element” and to feel the fear of being competing in the pitch with other players. Do not get scare as by performing with ethics and effort you will always feel satisfied, but by not doing anything you will be lagged behind.
Lastly I would like to quote Sir. W. Churchill writting, in his renowned article called Never Give In, [“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.].. [Failure is not so much a physical state as a state of mind; success is falling down, and getting up one more time, without end].
When the media writes or broadcasts the financial situation as if the whole world should be mourning the economical downward that developed countries are going through, I imagine the citizens from Mali, India, Senegal, Mexico, Bolivia or Camboya lighting their candles and praying, hoping their “developed brothers” may recover fast from such an awkward moment. I called up from Spain to my friend living in Mexico and my comment was, “well yes.. we have beaten the unemployment threshold of 4 million persons”, and he answered “ do not worry about it man, in Mexico there are 40 million persons trying to climb up the ladder out of poverty and the economic rhythm has not plummeted at all, what crisis are you talking about?”.
If we do examine an average education process of a person in a developed country, we do obtain the following phasing, 10 years for basic education, 4 years in high-school, 6 years in University, 2 years with a post-graduate degree, and assuming we are talking of a good student, we come out with 22 years devoting ourselves so to acquire “knowledge and wisdom” that will supposedly provide us with a survival – kit so to take part in recruitment processess launched by private companies, that are happy to get the most qualified professional for their companies. If the system worked out well, in 22 years of dedication to learning we all should be prepared to construct airplanes, vessels, cars, and sometimes we hardly know how to write certain words.
APJ Abdul Kalam writes in the preface of his book “Ignited Minds”, [ I am writing this book to make my young readers hear a voice that says, Start Moving]…[As it is said, Thinking is the Capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution]. Traditional education structures established in developed countries, paradoxically underpin a system where thinking and enterprise or private initiative, as a tool to accomplish personal and professional goals, are completely forgotten and ignored, advocating as the main premise “hard work”, that most of the times is nonsense as the effort is not properly focused. Developed countries need to realize that the leit-motif to gear their government bodies is in reverese order, and it is urgent to put back in order and coordinate in an harmonious way Thinking, Enterprise and Hard Work.
It is well known there are “External Forces” blocking the entry of genius into certain business environments as it is perceived with fear whatever and whoever is not under control. Qualification and sharpness cannot be considered a menace neither for a company that leads a business segment or for a person or group of persons who are in charge of certain tasks within an organization. Mediocrity should not prevent brilliance and witty to blossom from within as nowdays world economies are waiting for a Renaissance Movement that could unleash that hidden genius, which will play a key role so to untangle the chaos the market economy is involved at.
But there are also “Internal Forces” that impedes genius to spring up in each and every corner of our streets, cities and countries. Within layers of society flow biassed concepts on what to do for a living. It would be great to earn money from something we love to do, but sometimes we are driven to study or work at things so to follow a social stream, meeting a certain stereotype obtaining some sort of approval or recognition. Ken Robinson describes in his book “The Element” the art of connecting with our passions and individual talents as “the place where the things we love to do and the things we are good at come together.” You find persons complaining about their line of work and I firmly believe this is the moment to pull up strenght from within and undertake those projects that have been settled on our inner thoughts waiting for a bold moment to be awaken and put them into action. If a person studies humanities and he discovers his real passion is to grow tomatoes or cucumbers and would love to have grocery stores round the country to sell its products, good for him!.
Hence if we do expell from our social framework, the external and internal forces that lay in a business environment, we come to the point that there are good opportunities for those with talent, education, decision making – authority and the passion to perform whatever they have always dreamt with. Human beings tend to find sparks in the outside world so to kick off their personal projects, and many times those clues come from insight thoughts during a time for reflection.
If citizens that belong to that group of developing nations have had the ability and have activated their creativity to run their own business or performed an inner-art for a living, professionals who live in developing nations, that have been provided with the survival-kit mentioned above, should at least open it and try it before it expires. If we, the professionals who live in developing nations keep blaming the state, nothing is going to happen, nobody will bring the bacon home and will solve out our problems. As I said before we have been given lots of years of educaction and now has come the moment to put into practice all we have been taught so to generate wealth. We have been behaving in an inactive manner, receiving public education, being assisted by a public health system, being protected by the state police, and now has come the time to generate wealth and profit on our benefit, wich will at the same time stimulate market economies.
Regarding Politicians they do not deceive people anymore as they have restricted credibility and this is a big problem becauase citizens worldwide will not step forward to put into action projects and plans unless they believe in a state that is responsible and likely to manage properly their needs and resources. Bail out plans to cover banks´ missmanagments should come along with a cost-cutting plan over government bodies as they have become too big for its boots. The math here is simple, income generating sums are lower than the bill amount that has to be paid by the state.
And now the problem is time, there is none to restructure government bodies or market economies from its roots, we have to react and the most selfish way to benefit ourselves is to start thinking on generating income from our own skills, as if we keep still, waiting for a personal bail out plan to be received at our mail-box, I can tell you, that moment will not come. To have the philosophy of reconstructing our countries as if we had had the third world war and have to build up the whole thing again would not be an exaggeration, as the market economy as we did know it till now has been destroyed by a whirlpool of errors and missmanagments.
The current situation brings a time of reflection that shall allow us to spend time thinking and planning what to do next. The hardest we fight individually so to squeeze at the utmost our strengths and skills, the faster we will lift our situation out of this economic turmoil we are sunken at. The time for a Renaissance is yet to come in each and every field that has lost the least level, progress and evolution demands, and such phenomenon shall not be accomplished unless we all push hard and forward, as if we had to attack the problem at the grass roots.
Spend some time thinking, searching for the project, setting the plan, choosing the tools, marketing your ideas, fitting the budget, reading books and magazines, listening to renowned people with background in the specific field you will be focused at, writing articles, essays, and pour into your project passion, and by doing this, you´ll find that niche or that place in the market you are comfortable with.
As a conclusion I encourage professionals to find their “Element” and to feel the fear of being competing in the pitch with other players. Do not get scare as by performing with ethics and effort you will always feel satisfied, but by not doing anything you will be lagged behind.
Lastly I would like to quote Sir. W. Churchill writting, in his renowned article called Never Give In, [“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.].. [Failure is not so much a physical state as a state of mind; success is falling down, and getting up one more time, without end].
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