A Pilfered Gem

Saturday, January 24, 2009

A prologue to a new life
Today, I find he following text in a sheet of paper inserted between the pages of "El rio del olvido" de Julio Llamazares - a present from Don Jose Luis on July 27th, 1990."A Prologue to a New Life. Memories from a Trip East"

"Leaving is not easy, not easy. I did not look back to see those just orphaned, and those that felt their emotional investment useless. Travelling east represented a personal defeat...I came from there once, and I am returning with little. I leave the open skies, the simplicity of a life that was never too demanding, and I drive to days of rain, just like those of my youth, and to older friends."Rochester, Minn 1990

On this year we will move West, and 20 years later from that note above...we will swing back East once again. AMALIO TELENTI

Blog theft is probably a grave crime. But plagiarism is a form of flattery. I shamelessly steal this treasure verbatim from Amalio's blog because this slice of human experience is too familiar. This is a story of the nomadic life of Spaniards that I was witness to. The unexpected sentiment of defeat inherent to homecoming after years in the big, big world is one that all of us shared.

ACROCINUS