el tren de la memòria

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"Sinopsi: Espanya. Anys seixanta: Dos milions d'espanyols surten del país empesos per la necessitat. El seu destí: Alemanya, França, Suïssa i els Països Baixos. La meitat són clandestins i viatgen sense contracte de treball. El vuitanta per cent són analfabets. Davant ells s'aixeca el mur de l'idioma i els costums diferents. Espanya. En l'actualitat: altres necessitats truquen a la porta d'un país pròsper. Quasi ningú no es recorda de l'altra història. Josefina sí. Ella recorda el seu viatge al tren de la memòria. Destí: Nuremberg, Alemanya. "El tren de la memoria" retrata l'èxode de dos milions d'espanyols que van cercar la prosperitat a Europa en els anys seixanta. Se'n van anar per a uns mesos, es van quedar trenta anys. El documental pretén cobrir una llacuna en la recent història d'Espanya i saldar un deute amb els protagonistes d'uns temps difícils de què a penes en sabem una mica més que una concisa història oficial i uns quants tòpics"

Pujant al niu de l'�guila

L'excursió d'avui i la d'ahir

El constraste entre l'excursió d'avui i la d'ahir és incommensurable. Ahir vaig recorrer un barri de Santa Coloma de Gramanet i després el centre de Barcelona. Abans m'agradava l'aspecte cosmopolita de les grans ciutats però ahir l'aglomeració de tantes persones em va sembla agobiant. Passejant pels carrer de Santa Coloma vaig recordar la meva adolescència en un barri molt semblant, en una petita ciutat francesa frontera amb Suïssa, on també probablement més del 50 % d'habitants erem estrangers. Haig de buscar informació i si és possible veure aquest documental del que s`ha parlat aquests dies. "el tren de la memòria" ... El Tren de la Memoria retrata el éxodo de dos millones de españoles que buscaron la prosperidad en Europa en los años sesenta. Se fueron para unos meses ... També vaig decidir ahir que hauria d'escriure sobre aquesta época de la meva vida. "jo també vaig ser immigrant .....".

L'excursió d'avui ha estat molt diferent. He sortit a caminar a la montanya. En el primer tram hem trobat altres excursionistes però desprès hem caminat quasi tres hores sense veure ningú més. El bosc feia olor de sec i es podia palpar el perill d'incendi. Això em fa patir molt. Per a mi no hi ha res comparable amb el plaer d'estar en la natura, observar-la i gaudir-la. Ha estat en un descans, seguda a l'ombra d'uns pins, quan he recordat la multitud d'ahir i me n'he adonat encara més de la felicitat que em dóna la natura.

Viatge a Venècia

Segons el meu amic FJ, he tornat de Venècia amb la síndrome de Stendhal. Ha estat un veritable empatx per a tots els meus sentits. Descubreixo que es pot patir una síndrome sense saber-ho i em pregunto si el fet de posar una etiqueta a una sensació no contribueix a magnificar-la, o bé tot el contrari, a empobrir-la. En el viatge de tornada, sota l'efecte d'aquesta síndrome em va venir a la memòria una de les instruccions per a viure "Once a year, go someplace you've never been before". que diu que cada any s'ha de visitar un lloc en el que no hagis estat mai abans i em va sembla entendre la utilitat de portar aquesta instrucció a la pràctica. De totes les fotos que hem fet, he triat la de Burano perquè és la que més m'agrada encara que no sigui gaire representativa d'aquest viatge.

Burano

Instructions for Lifewritten by Dali Lama
http://www.a-silver-lining.org/instructions4life.html
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realise you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Instructions for Life: Author(s) Unknown
1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2. Memorize your favorite poem.
3. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
4. When you say, "I love you", mean it.
5. When you say, "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye.
6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
7. Believe in love at first sight.
8. Never laugh at anyone's dreams.
9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
11. Don't judge people by their relatives.
12. Talk slow but think quick.
13. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?".
14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
15. Call your mom.
16. Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
17. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
18. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.
19. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
20. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. 21. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
22. Marry someone you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
23. Spend some time alone.
24. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
25. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
26. Read more books and watch less TV.
27. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll get to enjoy it a second time.
28. Trust in God but lock your car.
29. A loving atmosphere in your home is some important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home.
30. In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
31. Read between the lines.
32. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
33. Be gentle with the earth...and yourself.
34. Pray. There's immeasurable power in it.
35. Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
36. Mind your own business.
37. Don't trust someone who doesn't close his eyes when you kiss him.
38. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
39. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth's greatest satisfaction.
40. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
41. Learn the rules, then break some.
42. Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.
43. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
44. Remember that your character is your destiny.
45. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
46. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
47. Its not that beauty doesn't exist in our world, its that we seldom seem to notice!
48. To a worm in a horseradish, the whole world is a horseradish.
49. Goals are not our life! NOW is our life!
50. We were born to learn, to grow, to expand, to love, to create, to enjoy, to see the beauty in all things - including ourselves. But we weren't born to be perfect.
51. We diminish the present as we worry about the future.
52. When we have done our best, we should await the results in peace.
53. Setting your heart on something is entering into a state of rigidity. Unsetting your heart is entering a state of flow.
54. We are deluding ourselves when we focus on the bad!
55. Either we make it all right or we make ourselves helpless victims.
56. Find the blessing. Find the lesson to be learned. Find the strength you never thought you had. Find the triumph.
57. If there is a hell on earth, living as a victim with feelings of anger and blame defines it. If there is a heaven on earth, living powerfully and lovingly as the creator of our own lives defines it.
58. Being understood is similar to being loved.
59. Sometimes everything is a nail to those you possess a hammer.
60. We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.
61. My own behavior baffles me, For I find myself not doing what I really want to do but doing what I really loathe.
62. Even God can't change the past.
63. Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really frightening! 64. If there is something you can do about it, get off your butt and do something about it. If you can't do anything about it, don't worry about it.
65. All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake-up call. They tell us to live life NOW - not tomorrow, not when the children grow up, not when we retire - but NOW.
66. Taking things for granted is one of the greatest assaults on the quality of our lives.
67. In order to break any habit, repetition of the preferred behavior is a must.
68. We don't have to wait until we are old to gather the riches, we can gather them everyday of our lives.
69. NOW is the only time we have.
70. If you see your tasks in life as drudgery, then they are drudgery. On the other hand, if you see them as a gift of the Universe manifest through you, then your tasks in life create a heaven on earth.
71. In daily life, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.
72. When we focus on abundance, our life feels abundant, when we focus on lack, our life feels lacking. It is simply a matter of focus.
73. We have to train ourselves to be appreciative, our present habit is to be unappreciative.
74. As we start looking for the good, our focus automatically is taken from the bad.
75. When you come upon a magic place, listen.
76. We weren't born to hold on to positions. Nor are we meant to be perfect. We are meant to flow in a world that is constantly moving beneath our feet.
77. We're all learning how to walk, and sometimes we walk into walls.

És el que sembla....

Tour du Mont Blanc

Aquestes fotos, que vaig fer ara fa gaire bé un any, són el record d'uns moments deliciosos, recorrent el sender TMB, des de les Contamines fins a Courmayeur i el refugi Bertone. La grandiositat de la montanya, la bellesa dels paisatges i la soletat escollida van fer vibrar en mi moltes més fibres espirituals i místiques que les que se'm va despertar en el Camí de Sant Jaume uns anys abans.
Els vespres, quan arribava al refugi, desitjava escriure les sensacions i ho intentava però, vaig comprendre molt aviat que no posseeixo les paraules justes. No vull dir que no existeixen. Fins i tot potser les conec i no ser com posar-les juntes.

Le Mont Blanc, l'Arve, Chamonix

Un bouquetin - Mont Blanc

Col de la Seigne - Mont Blanc

Oser écrire

Écrire, c'est pour moi comme chantonner. Une activité intime et détachée: on fredonne, on se fait la voix, et puis ça y est, c'est écrit. Écrire est une façon de charmer la personne qui nous est la plus étrangère: nous.
Madeleine Chapsal (Oser écrire, p.176, Éd. Fayard)