Libro 1

I wrote this essay adapting Seneca's book. Because the anger described in that book 2,000 years ago describes very well the behavior of the present masses. I think the story is cyclical. And although we would like to believe that we are different or better than our ancestors, it is evident that the symptoms of social discontent are repeated. Also, I have written about anger thinking especially in this age of individualism. Where people get carried away by anger when driving, on social networks, at work, anyway, everywhere. And this is worse when anger manifests itself in groups of people at a public demonstration. Since this dark and unbridled passion is one of the most dangerous that I think we still do not know how to manage as a society. Especially now that we are gradually approaching an institutional crisis in Chile, which I predict for the year 2,030 if we do not learn from the lessons of the past. The ideas that sustain this crisis are presented in my book "Coup d’état in Chile, year 2,030" in case you want to know more.

Much of my education I have acquired from my maternal grandmother: María Cristina Barrón. Among her teachings you always found a saying tailor-made for what occasion. Over the years I have learned sayings from other people; in most cases, elderly women. This book is intended to be a tribute to all of them and to the millions of women who have endured popular wisdom through the years through sayings. It is also a way to spread Spanish through the proverbs. It is not intended to be just another book of sayings, since not all of them are —not even close— but they are all of them. The idea is to present some of the most popular sayings and comment on them from the humild and opinion of the writer. The other intention of the work is that the sayings of these women endure over the years and do not fall into oblivion. It is not a book —nor does it claim to be— that you consider your own, since many of the sayings are anonymous. It is a rec nowledge and pay for that s grandmothers who both offered their teachings and complained so little. To all of them: thank you, a thousand thanks.

Ideas-wagons tend they travel the world the driver hooks them in his effort keeps them travel terrible roads                               so accompanied and so alone his work runs through suffering                            the meditation                                                                 the joy passes / between gala dances / village fairs the desire is pursued more everyday spiders               weave in the bedroom / its circular tape the years freeze hair / things oxidize kill love                          Or time?