Let's see, it says "Use a #2 pencil to fill in the circles."
Oh this looks like a fun Scantron test. Should I mark A, B, C, D, or E?
Allow no mistakes.
Pass.
Graduate.
el arte de sentir
Let's see, it says "Use a #2 pencil to fill in the circles."
Oh this looks like a fun Scantron test. Should I mark A, B, C, D, or E?
Allow no mistakes.
Pass.
Graduate.
Se que lo peor que puedo hacer ante una mujer 13 años mayor que yo que tiene vibra de mean girl es darle el gusto de verme reaccionar. No me corresponde darle por "su lado" y dejarla ganar aunque no tenga razón, tampoco me corresponde pedirle disculpas cuando no he sido yo la responsable de un problema porque lo que quiere es encontrar un culpable y desquitarse.
Fingiré que no sé que habla mal de mí con mis compañeras, y no me lo tomo personal porque hace lo mismo con ellos.
Fingiré que no entiendo sus intentos de intimidación, porque de lo que se alimenta es del efecto que causan sus comentarios mala leche.
Sinceramente no creo tener armas que me ayuden a librar esta batalla si no estoy tan bien posicionada, solo se trata de cuanto más puedo resistir.
Fingir demencia es un arma que toma a todos por sorpresa y más si aprovechas ese tiempo a tu favor.
Esta táctica de ataque no la aplico con cualquiera, porque no merece la pena fastidiar mi salud mental con preocupaciones. A mí me gustan las relaciones humanas cordiales, pacíficas, de frente y honorables, así como me enseñó mi papá (bueno más o menos, solo por tener palabra de honor).
En mi vida creo sólo haber tenido la necesidad de prepararme para jugar el juego sucio una vez. Back in 2009, pero no me quise envenenar y lo dejé ir, sin embargo me sorprendí de la capacidad que tiene una persona cuando busca justicia.
Ya es tarde para Lilith. Toma rápidamente sus broches y se acomoda el cabello un poco antes de salir de casa. La ciudad, extrañamente vacía... ¿Será que es por el día festivo? ¿Qué ha pasado con los turistas?
Lilith esta por llegar; no hay miedo, solo la acompaña su espíritu aventurero. El chofer que la observa por el espejo retrovisor, la nota un poco impaciente, pero eso no lo disuade de mantenerse por debajo del límite de velocidad.
Va a encontrarse con la mitad que dejó atrás, la que habita del otro lado del espejo.
La cita es en La Flamme de la Liberté. Está lista para romper el pacto que, dicen, le devolverá la dicha de ser una sola.
Al escuchar el nombre, era como si estuviera yo al fondo, como espectadora, pero al mismo tiempo sabía que estaba dormida y que era rarísimo escuchar una voz que dijera el nombre de una compañera laboral con la que ni convivo tanto; si acaso, la veo una vez a la semana.
Esa voz me dio una orden, y probablemente no sé si era en inglés o en español; yo solo sabía que alguien me hablaba, y era la voz de un hombre que me dirigía a hacer algo, y más o menos iba así, porque no fue dictado ni apuntado en papel:
Dile a “Maddie Madison” que, si tiene dudas sobre Él, que me pregunte a mí; yo le voy a responder.
Pero no solo eran las palabras, porque entendí otras cosas que me hicieron sentir seguridad en lo que sentía y escuchaba. El mensaje era espiritual, como si la chica tuviera dudas sobre su pareja y que, en lugar de preguntarle a otros qué opinaban, la invitaba a meditar y entregarle la pregunta a Dios, y que Él le daría la seguridad.
En eso de la telepatía, yo soy la receptora. Esto no me pasa seguido; tengo rachas en las que pueden pasar meses o hasta años y nada, y de repente una semana en la que sueño o sé cosas nada más porque sí.
En fin, un día normal en la vida de Gaby.
Whoever cursed her 10 years ago, the spell is finally broken; her inner magic outgrew the hex.
Long story long...
Ya sé, otra vez les voy a contar una historia más de cuando era estudiante de intercambio en Sevilla, probablemente ya estén hartos, pero esta no se la saben aún.
Como en esos tiempos me gustaba el teatro, y un día encontré una convocatoria para un taller de Teatro ofrecido por el Centro de Iniciativas Culturales (CICUS) de la universidad. Tenía que enviar una solicitud con un curriculum y lo emocionante era que solo se ofrecían 20 plazas. Para mi sorpresa quedé en el taller y siendo sincera considero que estaba en el puesto #20 en cuanto a talento, (todos eran geniales).
Un día de nos dejaron una tarea, estudiar un monólogo para luego presentarlo al grupo. Yo no tenía idea de que hacer o a quien representar pero poco antes acababa de ver un monólogo de Felipe Tututi, un actor que aunque creo es de otro estado, Mexicali es su segundo hojar. El monólogo me fascinó, retrata perfecto la vida en mi ciudad, Mexicali y se llama "Cachanilla", así que fue el elegido.
Llegó el dia de la presentación y creo que fui una de las últimas. Dejé a todos boquiabiertos, pero porque no me entendieron nada porque si lo escuchan (se los dejó aqui), dice muchos regionalismos. Hay una parte en la que Felipe dice "Simón Loco", que para nosotros es como un simple, "Claro, por supuesto" o de mandar mucho muy lejos a alguien cuando te dicen algo.
Obviamente les tuve que explicar de que se trataba, la intensión y que el monólogo ni mi personaje era Simona Loca,
Los días siguientes ya era Simona Loca, apodo que iba perfecto con mi nueva vida y mi nueva yo, descubriendo el mundo, riendo, siendo yo muy auténtica, enamorada de la belleza y el arte!
| En el Rinconcillo |
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| Sala Cero |
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| Teatreros |
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| mi penúltima noche en Sevilla, la noche de Auguste Rodin |
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| Éste fue el día del monólogo |
The art of letting go the clothes that no longer fit your body, that's what I put into practice 2 nights ago.
The heat seems to arrive earlier every year, so it is that time of the year where I am putting away coats, jackets, tons of sweaters and pants. I also went through my summer clothes and realized that most of them no longer fit me so I put all the big clothes in a pile and decided to give it away but before that, I made this type of ritual, I tried them all again. I couldn't believe the new me, the ability of a body to transform, finally I could see the results in the mirror, 24 kilograms off from this journey.
It was 2 a.m., and I was singing and dancing "She´s gone, Dance on" in front of the mirror, trying on new clothes that fit the new me. My gratitude was immense. I never believed I could feel this good again.
But now these questions echoed in my mind: Who am I now? Who was I before? What in me am I masking?
Very quickly, I answered myself with a smile, Venus is finding her way to transpire through my skin.
| Sandro Botticelli: "Birth of Venus" (1484–1486) |
Mexican, Spaniard, Lebanese, quite contrasting but alike.
Men, men, men: Libras, Leos, Virgos, Pisces and Geminis
Fire, water, air and sand,
Midnight walks while being friends with architecture, beach volleyball, tapas and long nights.
Men, men, men:
Brown, blue, black and hazel eyes.
Power, peace, poise, adventure and spicy fights!
Tongue, cologne, beer, wine, capoeira, languages, samba and Brazilian flights.
I hear music: drums playing, a singing voice and bass.
Men, men, men:
Politics, Carolina Herrera, nihilism, Isabel Allende, magic, sensualism, science and arts.
Moon, darkness, sun and light!
Inspiration all around,
Dan Marino, John Lydon, Eduardo del Río, Santiago Calatrava, Oscar Wilde, Niccolo Machiavelli, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eric Prydz and my treasured Auguste Rodin.
The son, the boyfriend, the husband, the dad, the friend, the grandpa, all beautiful inside.
The silence of the birds… flying their own way.
In different trees, each has a cozy nest of their own.
Once or twice a year, they get to share the sky at the same time,
but they still fly with their own flock.
From time to time, their paths cross.
With a subtle glance, they can tell they are growing
and there on the horizon, the only exchange is a silent knowing.
Below the whitest cloud, they recognize one another,
quiet, yet invisibly woven as a child to its the mother.
The short stage of femme fatale is over. The Tower and the Death cards were telling me for weeks that something big was coming, a change, but honestly that is not was I was expecting.
Today I'm beginning this new era that I don't know how many years will take me, and that is being a mother to my 82 year old father.
I can compare this situation to when a girlfriend tells you she’s pregnant with your baby... "Are you sure is mine?", "Is there anything else we can do about it?", absolute denial on my behalf.
But last night, hearing my dad on the phone crying and telling me he is desperate and he doesn't know what else to do, that he is holding on to so many things because he doesn't want to be a burden, but he can take it any longer, he is in constant pain and that is the reason he is not able to sleep at night. It broke me.
What a selfish person I have been, delaying my responsibility until this point.
He has ben a difficult person since I can remember, most of my traumas were probably caused by him, but he was also a present dad, loving and caring. I have no resentment, only love since he has been more in my life than my mom has, so today I'm taking ownership that he is now my baby and I will be the mom he lost at 8 years old.
My dad was born in Sinaloa, he had like 10 siblings (same mom and dad). They were a prosperous family, they had a store, my grandma had a hair salon, the other part of the family had buses like the ones from Greyhound but called GTB... they were financially stabled, but the truth is that my grandpa became an alcoholic and he turned violent, he had music and parties every night, his friends were always over drinking and playing domino, very difficult situation for the kids and for sure for grandma.
One day, my 8 year old dad came home and he saw a lot of suitcases above 2 cars and some of their siblings were already in the car. They told my dad that they were living and that my dad's suitcase was already above the car. He asked: "Are we leaving Dad by himself?" and nobody answered so he started asking one by one: "Are you going to stay?". Nobody was. Then my grandma came out of the house and told my dad to get in the car because they were leaving but he was devastated thinking about how his dad would feel so he said "I'm staying". My grandma coldly said: "Fine, please get your brother's suitcase off the car", they said goodbye and left. It was very late at night and my dad already in bed when he hard his dad arrived drunk and soon realized the silence in the house and begin calling everybody's names with no reply. My dad interrupted him and said: "Se fueron apá" (They left dad). Each one cried during the night on their own bed.
After that, my dad's life got worse as a kid, his dad was constantly drinking, not coming back home. My dad would go out very late at night and look for his father in bars and get him out of there. He would also have different women at home and sometimes offer to feed my little dad, but he would refused, he preferred to eat a piece of bread and drink a Coca-Cola before taking food from a woman that wasn't his mom. Sometimes while my dad was drinking with friends at home with loud music he would tell my dad to take care of the store. Dad told me that it was very late at night and he was so tired and that he would ask his dad that if he could close the store, but my grandpa said: "no, not yet, not yet, a little longer".
Eventually grandpa lost of his money, my dad grew up and at 17 he moved away to pursue a dream.
With all these being said, I understand why my dad is as he is and though I'm pretty sure I am a lot like him and carrying these traumas, I forgive him and love him dearly.
Now that I think about it, I repeated the pattern. My parents separated when I was 12 years old. I knew we were leaving, my mom had all of our stuff ready to give him the news one September 16, 1998. My mom's friend was going to pick us up that day, and was on call. When she told him, they called me in, and she asked me if I could stay with him but I said no. I was kind of offended (perfect millennial). How could she think she could leave me with him if he knew how he was. We left. 2 years later thinking that my mom would come back after she paid everybody the money she owed, I decided to go back with my dad thinking I had to go a few months before school starts again to get all documents ready, so I left my mom at 14. She never came back.
I'm breaking the cycle and not letting my daughter to get away from me at least not for me, just if she wants to go away and experience the world.
Anyway, I started this year focusing on me, me, me, losing weight, going to the gym, protein, healthy meals, beauty... I think is time to rearrange my priorities, and make the most of my dad's life for the rest of his days.
I'm wondering how difficult it will be, but also I get to connect with my spiritual being and trust the process, because at the end I know I'm not alone, I'm protected by God, angels and everything comes to me easily, God provides, I just have to listen in deeper, do my meditations and reconnect with the higher self.
I'm accepting this new phase with love and care.
Sometimes you must stop listening to your friends and start listening to your intuition. I can feel a big change coming soon and I need to hold space for whatever that might bring.
I can help you to understand yourself. Is it difficult to let your guard down right?
How do I know plenty about it? I was raised by a narcissist.
I thought I put this person to to sleep on a drawer, lock it with my memory key and that my process was completed. Somehow it keeps popping into my dreams randomly.
January 1st, I woke up realizing I had a dream with Mrs. Penguin. I was outside a house, on the driveway and she gets out the house with a folded blanket in her arms and she says "Finally! this is yours", like she was okay with returning it now. I picked up the blanket that I let her borrow a long time ago (at least that is how it felt) and left after a hug. Same day at night I saw something on FB that one of her daughters was celebrating with her, I realized it was her Birthday.
Next Day, I dream with Penguin Jr, like I could see you the body but the ghost couldn't see me. I sensed sadness, mourning a loss.
And 3 weeks earlier I dreamt about being at my old grandma's house, the low ceilings, the dark room, the closet and a lot of family members, then all of the sudden it popped into my dream, no talking, Penguin Jr. couldn't see me, but I could see him standing there in between the family members that were listening to a grandma's story, but he looked lost, but I couldn't help, it was like a blurry video in black and white and then it disappear.
January 2nd, I wat taking a look my my Google photos looking for one in particular from my daughter, so just scrolling up and down for quite a bit, then I suddenly stopped at a picture, baby Pily being held by one of our family members, that we haven't seen in a long time, one of the elders, I loved it, and I thought of sharing it to the family chat group but I let it go after staring at it with joy. That uncle past away that night and I was not expecting it.
This other morning while I was washing the dishes I was watching Youtube too and this random girl was talking about "The Red book", this is the first time I think I heard of it. Then afterwards, I sat down on the couch and started watching "My Other Self" on Netflix and the first scene I see is the leading Role "Ada" on her bed reading this same book.
No se siente diferente mi imaginación de lo que si se hace realidad, es cómo si tuviera pequeños adelantos, pero no se sienten especiales. Como la noche que se incendió el departamento de al lado del de mi padre y el de abajo... tuve varios avisos:
1. Escuché una canción muy ñoña que me pone de muy buen humor cuando quiero empezar algo (Fuego de Bomba Estéreo), pero esa dia detuve la canción porque sentía que iba a atraer bad vibes.
2. Luego fui a dejar a mi papá a su depa esa tarde y mientras se bajaba del carro, vi al fondo mucho humo de un incendio que se veía muy detrás de Ícono y me impactó un poco.
3. Como a las 9 de la noche estuve pensando en lo que debería de hacer en caso de un incendio, salida de emergencia, y me preocupé mucho por mi papi y pedí para que me lo cuidará mucho Diosito y los angelitos.
Como a las 11pm recibí la llamada de mi papá. Los bomberos le quebraron el vidrio y lo sacaron porque estaba dormidísimo y no escuchaba que le tocaban la puerta para que evacuara. Gracias a Dios su departamento quedo intacto, pero si se incendiaron parcialmente 2 depas.
And so it is!