Monday, March 5, 2012

Letter To A Friend

I want to tell you that if tomorrow I die
I will watch and care for you from Heaven;
I will advocate to lessen your pain and suffering...
If I die tomorrow.

If you die tomorrow
I will always love and remember you
and every night we will have good conversation
If you die tomorrow.

I want you to know that I love you so much;
you are so important to me...
in this life many times it is not difficult
but sometimes it's inconvenient to tell you
for whatever reason.

I do know that you are aware how much I appreciate you
but if I do not ever see you again,
this note is witness of my love for you.

And if I die and you never tell me of your love
don't worry...
the fact that we have shared so much
is enough for me to know that you love me.

We never know when is our last breath and day on Earth,
that is why I am telling you today,
in front of friends and enemies...
That I love you!

2012 POLITICAL CROSSROADS: An Editorial

Over the past three years we have seen our country wrecked with high unemployment, out-of-control spending, families losing their jobs and houses, and little hope for our future generations. There is plenty of blame to go around, certainly George W. Bush’s Administration has to shoulder some responsibility but Barack Obama has been President for three years and he owns this sinking ship. He has failed as President and he knows it, but true to his inherent lack of character he points the finger at everyone and everything else but himself. Barack Obama is an interesting study of the psyche of the human being. I do not claim to know him as a person but I have seen that personality in the past while I attended CUNY-City College of New York in Harlem, as a medical resident in Boston City Hospital in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and worked for three years at Misericordia Hospital right in the center of West Philadelphia. Oh did I learn to spot that leopard…Barack Obama is the typical chimera made up of the worst of all its parts. He has presided over a dysfunctional Washington and has taken our country on a path of destruction and class warfare not seen since the days of the Kingfish. He has been unable to make tough decisions and implement them. Oh yes, he said that he killed Osama Bin Laden and decapitated Al Qaeda: he deserves some but not all the credit.
America is on the wrong path, everybody knows it and the polls show it. We cannot trust this individual anymore; he is like the scorpion that killed the frog while the frog was carrying it on its back helping him cross the river. Just like the frog asked the scorpion “why did you killed me? Now both of us are going to die?” The scorpion replied “it is my nature”. America, we cannot carry this scorpion on our backs any longer because it is his nature to kill us with more taxes and more spending…and more lies and more “blame someone else but me” and more class warfare. His theme was never “hope and change”…it was always “divide and conquer”, we just did not see it. This chimera has a little of Reverend Wright, a little of Bill Ayers, a little of Karl Marx, a little of George W. Bush, a little of Leon Trotsky and lots of Manuel Noriega.
In 2012 we must vote for someone with the following traits: Electability, character, leadership and a conservative philosophy. America is not a liberal country; we have respect for laws, celebrate everybody’s right to pursue happiness and the ideals to improve one-self and lift one’s family to a better future. We respect the right of people to have their privacy and to enjoy the fruits of their labor. I plan to vote for Mitt Romney. He may not be perfect, none of us are. He may not be a gifted orator like Satan while tempting Jesus in the wilderness, but Romney is able to communicate his thoughts and his ideas with simplicity and humility. He is not George W. Bush and certainly he is not Reaganesque, but in these times he offers a steady hand and the promise of better times after a decade of upheaval, self-doubt and economic ruin for our country. I plan to vote for Romney with the hope that he will be a good President because the certainty of having the worst President in history for four more years will be demoralizing and psychologically devastating for all Americans. We do not need four more years of this pedantic Kingfish.

Me He Dado Cuenta

ME HE DADO CUENTA

Hoy aqui mirando tus ojos, amor
Algo te llevas de mi
La devocion que te dio mi dolor,
Hoy quiero empezar a vivir
Y levantarme sin ningun temor

Y es que me he dado cuenta
Que te soy indiferente
Y la actitud hiriente
De tu engaño no me miente
Y es que me he dado cuenta
Que ya no me perteneces
Y otro en tu cama sacia hoy tu ilusion

Y es que me he dado cuenta
Que mi amor no te apetece
Y aunque yo te ame, te desesperas,
Y es que me he dado cuenta
Que dejas estos brazos
tan rotos y cansados
marchitos sin amor.

Hoy aquí, voy a decirte adios
Solo soñe con tu amor
Y me voy con el sabor de tu traicion
Tejiendo un arcoiris de dolor
Dejando un alheli en tu corazon

Y es que me he dado cuenta
Que te soy indiferente
Y la actitud hiriente
De tu engaño no me miente
Y es que me he dado cuenta
Que ya no me perteneces
Y otro en tu cama sacia hoy tu ilusion

Y es que me he dado cuenta
Que mi amor no te apetece
Y aunque yo te ame, te desesperas,
Y es que me he dado cuenta
Que dejas estos brazos
tan rotos y cansados
marchitos sin amor.

Jose R. Orellana (Waterbury, 3/8/2010)

Yes...Think of Me

In 1973, having recently arrived in New York City from Honduras, my siblings and I were struggling to assimilate to our new environment: learning English, getting to know and eventually love the New York Mets (who by the way shocked the Cincinnati Reds in the National League Playoffs and fell to the Oakland A's in the seventh game of the World Series) and new friends. That same year, a young Spanish singer captured the imagination of Latin America. Miguel Bosé, son of great and legendary Spanish matador Luis Miguel Dominguin and beautiful Italian actress Lucia Bosé was catching fire with young Latin American and young Europe. We were aware of him, seeing him on Mexican TV's top rated show "Siempre en Domingo" but one morning in 1979 while I was changing subway lines at Times Square I heard his music coming out of a generic subway record store. I asked the salesman who was the singer and he told me that indeed it was Miguel Bosé and his new album "Chicas". I pulled a metal chair and sat in a corner and listened to the entire album...did not go to school that day. "Si...Piensa en Mi" became my favorite song and it is still my favorite Bosé song. My brother René and I became fans and throughout life we have special songs that mark our mood in time. Miguel Bosé went on to have a great career, controversial, successful, failures and plagued by innuendo, just like many, if not all of us. I understand if you are not a fan of him, his music is somewhat contrived and soaring at the same time, poetic and rudimentary, too. But there is always a special place in my life and heart for him, especially "Si..Piensa en mi", his best song, his most under-appreciated song...a chimera of life that made me dream that day in a record store under the streets of New York.

Girando en el tiempo

Girando en el tiempo: Hay gente muy inmadura y malintencionada que andan sin vida fastidiando la vida al projimo; lo bueno es que hay cosas buenas tambien y puedes hacer amigos sinceros que resultan ser joyas en tu vida. Hoy uno de esos amigos me envio un mensaje que me dio mucho que pensar y trajo paz a mi dia y volvio a enfocarme a las cosas buenas de la vida y a valorar lo que tengo.

He aqui el mensaje de un amigo a quien admiro, desde Monterrey, Nuevo Leon:

"Por otro lado considero que mas vale solo que mal acompañado y que los problemas del corazón no existen como tal, el amor es solo la descripción coloquial de un estado psicológico que tarde que temprano desaparece"

Que palabras tan inmensas!!!


Acabas de descubrir que tu pareja tiene una relación con otra persona a tus espaldas. Sientes que todo te da vueltas, estás fuera de control y te preguntas:

¿Quién es esta persona en la que yo confiaba?

¿Cuántas mentiras más hubo antes que ésta?

La confianza desaparece y no sabemos cuándo nos miente y cuándo dice la verdad. Una relación de este tipo puede destruir el respeto por nosotros mismos y nuestra capacidad de confiar en nuestras propias percepciones, nuestro sano criterio y sentido común. Lo he sufrido, lo he vivido, lo he visto en la relacion de mis padres hasta que la destruyo, y si perdonas es para no sufrir pero nunca olvidas la traicion y nunca vuelves a confiar en esa persona, o sea perdonas la infidelidad pero nunca la deslealtad, me explico? La confianza se toma mucho tiempo en ganarse y se pierde en un segundo. Buenas noches a todos y que la noche nos devuelva la paz.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Tus Cosas

Nada en especial, solo que tengas un buen dia y recuerda que tienes tu casa, tu hogar, tu paz y tranquilidad, tus perros, tu Guitar Hero, tu carro, tus botas, tu sombrero, tu yarda, tu piscina y me tienes a mi y a nuestros planes para cuando estemos viejitos y en silla de ruedas.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Conociéndonos

Conociéndonos

En este domingo de descanso, mientras estoy enfrente de la computadora
Te veo por la ventana, estás cortando el pasto en tus Bermudas y camiseta de tirantes,
Aún temprano, un poco de calor…

No sé como agradecerte lo que haces por mi, el cariño que me demuestras
Esto que has despertado en mi, algo que crece como una flor en primavera
Algo que nunca pensé que pasaría en este desierto de mi corazón,
A veces me siento estúpido, atolondrado, sin palabras que encontrar,
Pero hoy me ha inspirado que aunque te despiertes de mal humor,
Que aunque yo esté enfadado, siempre hallas como hacer que salga el Sol…

Y aquí me encuentro, con letras emanando de mi cabeza, mente y corazón.
Los días que se mezclan el uno al otro haciéndo pasar el tiempo;
Vamos conociendo facetas en nosotros que nunca pensábamos existían,
La routina se hace alegría y la soledad da paso a la compañía.

Y aunque ya no digamos nada, con verte a los ojos lo comprendo todo,
Y si tú te quedaras mudo y yo sordo, ambos sabemos que esa luz nos ilumina a los dos
Y aquí estoy sentado en tu casa, en tu patio, oyendo tu música y bailando en tu corazón.


Waterbury, Mayo 2, 2010
José Roberto Orellana Gutiérrez