MÁS QUE PASIÓN por las letras, lo mío ha sido siempre, pasión por las historias. Como la mayoría de la gente de mi generación, me crié con la televisión, el cine, los comics y los libros de aventuras de Julio Verne, Emilio Salgari y los libros de los tres investigadores. El primer libro que… Continue reading Juan Carlos Fernández y su pasión por las letras
Category: de la vida
A prayer for the Soul
So needed in times where you feel lost, dying slowly and seen as something different that what you really are. Humans change, sometimes evolve into something that they thought never possible. Tears follow and questions form themselves out of thin air. Then the words come, out of the blue… Have patience with everything unresolved… Continue reading A prayer for the Soul
A un reino / To a kingdom
English version below the Spanish. El asfalto negro me transporta al pasado, a una juventud marcada con nostalgía en el espacio neuronal donde las memorias son tan solo reacciones químicas. De ellas nacen el deseo de recorrer el camino bordeado por árboles y rodeado de valles. Ese camino que corta por entre las montañas de… Continue reading A un reino / To a kingdom
Exercise the senses: Vision Part I / Los sentidos: Visión Parte I
For the Spanish full version, click here! As visual creatures from birth, we begin to stimulate the sense of vision. Family Visual Stimulation Education in his article: “a world through the eyes” tells us: Through the eyes numerous stimuli and experiences enters the brain of the baby. The eyesight of a child increases rapidly. The… Continue reading Exercise the senses: Vision Part I / Los sentidos: Visión Parte I
Invisible ink / Tinta invisible
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~Vladimir Nabokov Clamoring, clamoring over and over again. Echoed in the thoughts that become vivid pictures in the mind. In this lair they reign. Pen in hand, notebook wide open.… Continue reading Invisible ink / Tinta invisible
It is necessary to write… / Es necesario escribir…
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes… Continue reading It is necessary to write… / Es necesario escribir…
A place I’ll like to visit
Of all the places I would like to be, immerse myself in them, take the time to connect and feel the atmosphere, be SEDUCED… I will like to visit a place of nothingness, which holds the heart of some, is mysterious (well, at least that is what is called by some), and solitude is a… Continue reading A place I’ll like to visit
A quote from Samuel Butler
“Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. ~Samuel Butler“ Quote taken from The Quote Garden This are the words that best explain my thoughts on writing a story or book. Samuel Butler hit the head of the nail… Continue reading A quote from Samuel Butler
NO photos allowed in Old San Juan
On 28 of April a local newspaper, El Nuevo Día, released an article title “Forbidden to take photos in San Juan (Prohíben tomar fotos en San Juan)”. I was sick to my stomach when I read that if you own a professional camera with high tech lenses and tripod you need a permission form to… Continue reading NO photos allowed in Old San Juan
Mapping and Traditions
What have I been up to? The title says it all. I have been mapping and enforcing my traditions and believes. Lent has come to an end this year, my silence during these past weeks had to do with it and the Holy Week just pasted, and writing my book. My mother was raised her… Continue reading Mapping and Traditions
