#bookmark 2018

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Leído en "Dos veces única" Elena Poniatowska

"México huele a pan. Con sus grandes canastas en la cabeza, montados en su bicicleta, los panaderos lo reparten y no se les cae ni una telera ni una concha ni una oreja ni una flauta. Las mujeres jamás se quejan ante su metate y muelen de rodillas hasta que la masa queda lista para palmearla y volverla una tortilla redonda. Quince millones de mexicanos van a la Villa cada 12 de diciembre a cubrir a la Morenita de nardos y alcatraces, tamales, tostadas de pata y garnachas, y a pedirle que la Electropura siga repartiendo botellones de agua para sus aguas de jamaica, limón y tamarindo y que siempre haya leche. Y maíz. Y frijoles, y, y, y…"

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People are so removed from food animals now. When I grew up, the animals were taken care of first. You did chores before you ate breakfast. We were told that if we didn’t take care of the animals, we weren’t going to eat. We never went on vacations. Somebody always had to be here. I remember we had day trips, but we always hated them because if we didn’t get home before dark, we knew we’d be out in the pasture trying to get the cows in, and we’d be milking cows in the dark. It had to be done no matter what. If you don’t want that responsibility, don’t become a farmer. Because that’s what it takes to do it right. And if you can’t do it right, don’t do it. It’s that simple. And I’ll tell you another thing: if consumers don’t want to pay the farmer to do it right, they shouldn’t eat meat.

Frank Reese in Eating Animals

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leído en: "Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It" por Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

"That’s when I realized that Mojo is not merely about the rush we feel when we’re on a winning streak. It’s not only about the direction we’re heading in, nor is it about the pace of change we’re creating around us. Mojo is an expression of the harmony—or lack of harmony—between what we feel inside about whatever we are doing and what we show on the outside."

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leído en "Los besos en el pan" por Almudena Grandes

"Ahora, cuando ha llegado el momento de elegir, se da cuenta de que las cosas buenas, las personas a las que ha querido, las que le han querido a él, los momentos y los lugares donde ha sido feliz, la memoria de las risas, de los besos, la complicidad de sus amigos, la emoción del amor, el vértigo del sexo, ocupan casi la totalidad de su memoria. Lo bueno ha invadido el espacio de lo malo, los huecos del rencor, del dolor, de la rabia, todas esas viejas cuentas pendientes que ha ido acumulando a lo largo de los años como un equipaje incómodo pero imprescindible, y que ahora, de pronto, le dan igual. Es mejor empezar por la alegría, y eso hace."

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carl Sagan on "a pale blue dot..."

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

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haruki murakami (translated by jay rubin) en The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

So now I had to go cat hunting. I had always liked cats. And I liked this particular cat. But cats have their own way of living. They’re not stupid. If a cat stopped living where you happened to be, that meant it had decided to go somewhere else. If it got tired and hungry, it would come back. Finally, though, to keep Kumiko happy, I would have to go looking for our cat. I had nothing better to do.

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Among the !Kung San hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert, when two men, perhaps testosterone-inflamed, would begin to argue, the women would reach for their poison arrows and put the weapons out of harm’s way. Today our poison arrows can destroy the global civilization and just possibly annihilate our species. The price of moral ambiguity is now too high. For this reason—and not because of its approach to knowledge—the ethical responsibility of scientists must also be high, extraordinarily high, unprecedentedly high. I wish graduate science programs explicitly and systematically raised these questions with fledgling scientists and engineers. And sometimes I wonder whether in our society, too, the women—and the children—will eventually put the poison arrows out of harm’s way.

Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Kindle Locations 4715-4721). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. 

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ursula k. le guin en "the lef hand of darkness"

"to learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness"