martes, 3 de febrero de 2009

The other Diego

This letter is for you. I miss you so much. It's been a week since I cannot talk to you. I went to an exposition today. It was about Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera's paintings & lives. There were many paintings, but also there was a movie called "Frida".

Diego was named "the elephant" by Frida's mother. He had a great personality. There was one side of Diego that reminded me someone else. But there was another side of Diego that was so much like you. This feeling of loyalty, of friendship, of complicity. It reminded me many attitudes, gestures you had towards me, but also to your friends, to our classmates, to our teachers. I already miss you so much, Tall Boy. Perhaps you are an elephant, too; aren't you? I have so much to tell you. I just wonder when and how.

(La Hormiga)
ps: I've got very possitive good news!

3 comments:

Rodrigo Ignacio Figueroa Stanton-Yonge dijo...

Hola Hormiga, perdona por haberte hecho sentir tocada con aquel post.

Pero a quienes meto en un mismo saco son los usan dobles discursos. Es decir, aquellos que hablan de DD.HH pero cuando les conviene.

Mi problema no es contra los DD.HH. ni quienes estén de acuerdo con el discurso. Pero sí coincide con que la mayoría de quienes referencian y quienes dirigen estas instituciones buscan un fin que se aleja mucho a la esencia misma de esta postura.

Muchos saludos

espiritrompa dijo...

me gusta eso de cruzar desiertos...

Raul G dijo...

A diego siempre le ponían sobrenombres de cosas grandes. Lo que implica que verdaderamente el era algo muy grande... tal vez lo más grande que México haya podido compartir con otras culturas. Como la libertad que regalaron los franceses a los americanos (estoicamente hablando).

Ahora mismo recuerdo el AKA que le colgó un colega contemporáneo: "Diego Rivera, mastodonte" *reminiscencia*