Five Bright Stars to you Sensitive Steve

Five Bright Stars to you Sensitive Steve

One bright star for kindness,

because you guide People

with smiles, and words, showing them a good  way.

the sugar that cannot be in some loved ones

is spreading on your soul

 making you a sweet person.

A bright star to your finest style

dancing around chords and keys

making an audience for the  next movie

sharing the life of a cold country

to warm southern listeners.

A bright star for your compassion

nature salutes you

blooming every season

and offering flavor to your table.

You are an animal’s lover and

 a hands of service volunteer

fragile bodies with strong life experience

thanks you, for one day, one gesture,

 they ask  heavens credit for you.

A bright star for your verbal tone

clear like an October sky in one afternoon

and soft like clouds drawing imaginary pictures

politely answering people’s cell phones

but gently imposing rules.

A bright star for you

who floats scatters address and cell phone

to some are unanimous and future friends

Open like a rose but protected by its thorn

you are dignity  who loves to love

who loves life and the life of others.

Save Money for your Spring Break

Save Money for your Spring Break

Excuses to avoid a cultural trip during the spring break are numerous. Some excuses are traditional, for example, the world globalization; traditional places are boring, and the expensive long trips. Some people declare that because we are living in a globalized world there is no need for traveling. Some argue that the technology can take everyone to endless places using the computer as their way to travel. Yet the computer cannot express the feeling of walking on narrow street in an old city, the smell of fresh bread coming out of a bakery from a traditional family business, or the arts represented in parks, or public museums. Others complain that there is nothing interesting to do on a cultural trip. For example, they say old style cities it is not fun and there is old building everywhere. Young people who live in traditional places are combining old fashioned style and modernity, creating a cultural mix. People, who are thinking about spending their spring break visiting cultural traditional places, should not be afraid of the old nor the modern. The majority of college students mention monetary reasons for not making any cultural trips. A good student always makes plans ahead. Cultural trips can be bought in advance and with that one can save money. Also, accommodations for students have been offered around the world with many options. In the end, excuses are always there. Some students pretend they want to make a cultural trip, perhaps when they express this desire; they are giving an expression of being a person who cares about cultural knowledge. In reality, they just want to be on a cheap cruise, dancing half naked, and getting drunk until they lose their sense of self-pity. Having fun is always good, but it is important to have some cultural knowledge in the head because one day talking will be necessary after the hangover.

Mama don't go, Daddy come home.” John Lennon

                   John Lennon

Not only a shadow follows a person, but their childhood bad memories which usually grow and turn into a trauma in life. Most people prefer to ignore any psychological stress they might have in their childhood. There are some famous people who have suffered some kind of distress, and open to the public pieces of their problems. Years ago, I saw Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s widow, celebrating with her late husband’s fans, his birthday on TV. She reminded all John’s fans about how important it was to celebrate the day that someone was born, and consequently celebrate life. Yoko said that John Lennon had had a difficult childhood and he had suffered this sad feeling for a long time. I always saw John Lennon as an adult. I never thought about him as a child. It is very egocentric to say that, but it is true. Perhaps idols are like that, without personality, or any past before they became famous. It is depressing to admit. Last week, by accident, I had a chance to see a movie about John Lennon’s childhood. This movie was about the time he met Paul McCartney, John’s fellow band member. By that time, Paul was in his early teenage years, and the movie started right after his mother passed away. We, as the audience, never know if the movie reflects reality or not, but I felt so sorry for Paul, and I understood his pain when he wrote “When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me speaking words of wisdom, let it be.” On the other hand, inside John’s family, trouble was there as well. He was living not with his mother, but his aunt. It was very complicated atmosphere because his mother never told the complete true story about why his father had left from John’s life. The movie to continue open little by little fragments of a broken family. When finally John knew all the information about his father, he could put together pieces about his childhood, but the feeling of being rejected and abandoned from both parents, must be something he carries within his shadow. Here is part of John’s Lennon song that reflects his feeling and his pain.

“Mother, you had me but I never had you, 
I wanted you but you didn't want me, 
So I got to tell you, 
Goodbye, goodbye. 
Farther, you left me but I never left you, 
I needed you but you didn't need me, 
So I got to tell you, 
Goodbye, goodbye. 
Children, don't do what I have done, 
I couldn't walk and I tried to run, 
So I got to tell you, 
Goodbye, goodbye. 
Mama don't go, 
Daddy come home.”