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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Amaneceres lluviosos y nublados

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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En la infancia, me encantaban los amaneceres lluviosos y nublados. Me parecían encantadores y mágicos, y más si la llovizna se prolongaba durante horas. El inmenso y primoroso jardín de la casa solariega, despedía fragancias exquisitan que embelesaban. Olía a árboles, flores, helechos, plantas y frutos empapados, a piedras y a tierra mojadas, a vida palpitante en cada expresión natural. La esencia y las formas de la creación fluían en el ambiente. Me parecía maravilloso aquel espectáculo. Era, pensaba, un milagro de la vida. Me causaba asombro mirar las gotas cristalinas que deslizaban en cada hoja del follaje y en los cristales de las ventanas. Las nubes, espesas y grises, flotaban tan bajo, que imaginaba que podía tocarlas e introducirme en sus capas misteriosas y prodigiosas. Creía, en aquella niñez azul y dorada, que el cielo descendía al mundo…

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Poema

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Um bom poema é aquele que faz a gente se entregar sem nada exigir.

Se há esforço para o entendê-lo,

É sinal de que a sua forma conflitante

Não o permite ser compreendio.

O conflito é uma oposição entre os elementos de sua criação e aquilo que possibilita o essencial – o despertar do leitor.

Se é um texto que exige mais atenção,

É preciso então que o leitor

Mergulhe na alma de quem o escreveu.

Um bom poema é como um grande teatro:

– exige um bom cenário, luz, música, gestos e movimentos.

E a coisa mais importante para os olhos da plateia: Clareza. Dentre todas as sombras, o personagem principal deve fazer a plateia suspirar!

Longe, lá no fundo,

O eco, gritos e aplausos devem sair da consciência da penumbra…deslumbrada.

Compreendeu?

A clareza é a maior evolução de um poema.

A mensagem sempre precisa ser- clara!

Um bom…

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The Biden-Harris Administration’s Student Debt Relief Plan Explained

What the program means for you, and what comes next

President Biden, Vice President Harris, and the U.S. Department of Education have announced a three-part plan to help working and middle-class federal student loan borrowers transition back to regular payment as pandemic-related support expires. This plan includes loan forgiveness of up to $20,000. Many borrowers and families may be asking themselves “what do I have to do to claim this relief?” This page is a resource to answer those questions and more. There will be more details announced in the coming weeks. To be notified when the process has officially opened, sign up at the Department of Education subscription page. You’ll have until Dec. 31, 2023 to apply.

Source: The Biden-Harris Administration’s Student Debt Relief Plan Explained

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Silent Spring began with a “fable for tomorrow” – a true story using a composite of examples drawn from many real communities where the use of DDT had caused damage to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural animals, domestic pets, and even humans. Carson used it as an introduction to a very scientifically complicated and already controversial subject. This “fable” made an indelible impression on readers and was used by critics to charge that Carson was a fiction writer and not a scientist.

Serialized in three parts in The New Yorker, where President John F. Kennedy read it in the summer of 1962, Silent Spring was published in August and became an instant best-seller and the most talked about book in decades. Utilizing her many sources in federal science and in private research, Carson spent over six years documenting her analysis that humans were misusing powerful, persistent, chemical pesticides before knowing the full extent of their potential harm to the whole biota.

Carson’s passionate concern in Silent Spring is with the future of the planet and all life on Earth. She calls for humans to act responsibly, carefully, and as stewards of the living earth.

 

Source: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring