The Cat and the Bee: An Unexpected Friendship
In a small town surrounded by green fields and blooming gardens lived a cat named Milo. He had bright orange fur, was agile, and always eager to discover new corners of the world. One day, while exploring a garden full of lavender and sunflowers, he heard a persistent buzzing near his ear.
"*Hey, watch where you step!*" squeaked a tiny bee with wings shimmering like gold.
Milo stepped back, surprised, and looked at the little creature with curiosity.
"*Wow, I've never talked to a bee before!*" exclaimed the cat, tilting his head. "Who are you?"
"*My name is Berta,*" replied the bee, crossing her tiny legs. "*And you almost crushed my favorite flowers.*"
Milo felt embarrassed but soon found himself fascinated. He wanted to know more about Berta and what life as a bee was like. And so, an unlikely friendship began.
Berta showed him the world from her perspective: she took him to the sunflower fields to teach him how they collected pollen, and together they soared over the river—Milo leaping from stone to stone while Berta glided with the wind.
One day, they decided to organize a race: Milo had to reach the beehive by jumping between the trees, while Berta would weave her way through the tallest flowers. It was a challenge full of unexpected twists, where each used their skills to get ahead. In the end, they arrived almost at the same time and laughed together, celebrating with a honey snack that Berta had collected.
Each afternoon, they found new ways to have fun. They made up stories about the garden creatures, watched the stars from the highest branch, and invented new games that tested Milo's speed and Berta's agility.
Over time, the town got used to seeing them together—the cat bounding through the bushes and the bee fluttering nearby, forming an unlikely but inseparable duo. And so, with daily adventures and a friendship full of laughter, Milo and Berta proved that no matter how different two friends may be, joy and companionship can always bring them together.
Music classes with children with autism
Children begin to learn as soon as they are born. Everything around them is new and the brain gradually registers and stores everything it sees and everything it interacts with.
Children are really wonderful, each one learns in a unique way, they learn fast, they don't see difficulties in learning and according to their progress each one will start to develop different tastes about the things around him/her.
I am currently working in a music academy with children, where I attend children with Autism or children with "super powers" as my boss says, I am also working with many other cases such as Asperger. This time I want to talk a little bit about autism in music classes.
Before I start, I want to tell you that my boss always says that all children develop their own super powers, but that children with autism develop those super powers faster than other children.
**Why does this happen?**
Although autistic children often have deficits in interaction with other people or problems with communication, art for them is a help to improve their ability to concentrate, emotions and affective development, being this medium a way to free themselves from the different ways they have to learn. Art stimulates intelligence and helps develop creativity.
My boss is a psychologist, and he says that children with autism develop more superpowers because they are much more creative than other children. They see the world in a different way, that also makes them advance very fast in the arts, especially in music, they do not see many obstacles when it comes to playing or singing a song they like, they also have a great memory, when they learn a song it is difficult for them to forget it.
Children with autism often have some behavioral problems when they have some strong change in their life, because they are a little rigid in terms of their routines, when you change the routine of their day they usually get upset or get into a bad mood due to the lack of understanding of what is happening in their environment.
How does music help children with autism?
Music develops creativity in them through games, different sounds and the creations they can make while singing or playing.
Although they are inflexible when they have a change in their routine, music can often help them tolerate that change because they can express their feelings or concerns.
When the child is playing music, their brain creates different connections that are associated with playing something they like, making them less anxious and able to enjoy what they are doing.
As music works as a means of expression and communication, the child gradually and without realizing it, begins to develop better in their social environment and develops a better ability to show their emotions.
It helps to improve the motor skills in his fingers and perceptions of what he is doing while playing an instrument, he also begins to concentrate better on what he is doing.
Music motivates children to establish relationships or interactions with their environment by sharing and teaching what they know how to do.
Hello dear friends of read.cash, I hope you are well. I had a long time without writing for this page where I have been treated with great affection, but I had no reason to write, today I got up the courage and started to write this...
I hope you have a happy week!
A delightful story
Hello dear friends of read.cash, I hope you are well. My disappearance from here is due to many changes in my life, most of those changes are due to negative circumstances, I really have not been very well to write or answer your comments, much less to read everything you have posted.
I will try to be here often again, but it's kind of hard for me right now.
I want to tell you about a sweet story that goes back to ancient times, but first I want to ask you a question, **do you like sweets?**
I haven't met a person who tells me that they don't like cake or desserts, everyone I know enjoys eating a delicious sweet, just imagine it, an afternoon with coffee and the dessert you like the most surrounded by your loved ones or alone, what a wonderful afternoon.
I want to talk about desserts because a few months ago was my mother's 60th birthday and to celebrate it I made her 4 different desserts for her to enjoy and share with our family and friends, so these days I have been a little sweet.
Of all the desserts the cake is the most common because it is always present in the events we have, meetings, weddings, birthdays, etc., but we can also enjoy this wonderful dessert any day.
That makes me remember that a few days ago I was at a friend's house that I haven't seen for many years and we made a delicious brownie, watched movies and played chess all night, then I will tell you about my experience with this wonderful dessert.
The cakes
We enjoyed them in all colors, flavors, sizes, shapes, designs, etc., there are even cakes for people who are on a diet or have some kind of allergy to normal cakes. There are cakes so spectacular that we don't want to break them because of how beautiful they are, but this sweet was made to be eaten.
We have all eaten this dessert at least once in our lives, but in the past, cakes were not like they are today. The cakes looked more like round loaves of bread sweetened with honey and garnished with sesame seeds, can you imagine?
The record of these first recipes dates back more than 7 thousand years ago in Ancient Egypt, they were the pioneers in baking and their legacy dates back to the 25th century BC. Then it began to be celebrated in Ancient Greece births, where the celebration of this new life was to share with a delicious cake more than 7 thousand years ago hahaha. The cakes made in Athens were very famous and these were made with flour, cheese and oil.
**Annotation:** The oldest oven in the world is over 6,500 years old and was discovered in Croatia in 2014.
In the fourth century BC and with the participation of the Roman Empire began to differentiate between the work of the baker and the pastry chef, creating this new profession.
Now, as we know there were many conquests in those times and in these conquests there were great exchanges of goods and trade. When the Arabs conquered Spain, they started to plant citrus trees, almond trees, etc. These foods began to be traded in Rome and in much of Europe, so as a result of these conquests and these new trades, nuts and dried fruits began to be added to cakes.
This food that we now consider "a valuable dessert" was quite popular in its beginnings because these foods now filled with fruits could last for many months, so the main reason for its great popularity was because of its sweet taste and its duration.
**Note:** With the discovery of America in the 15th century, Spain began to include chocolate in small quantities in these mixtures and together with sugar it was combined and replaced honey as a sweetener because of the delicious combination that both produced.
Thanks to advances in technology and improved availability of ingredients, the first cakes were baked in Europe in the 17th century.
The first cake decorations were a composition of boiled sugar with egg whites and different flavorings, this preparation was poured over the cake and then baked again, leaving a hard and shiny covering.
The cake as we know it today was made in the middle of the 19th century, which was made with white flour and baking powder instead of yeast. The hard and shiny decorations were replaced by cream icings made with butter, cream, sugar and flavorings, this soft mixture started to be used since the 20th century.
Thank you very much for having reached the end of my article my dear friend from read.cash, I hope you liked this delicious story that I have shared for you. Here are the links where I got the information:
https://www.debate.com.mx/prevenir/La-curiosa-y-dulce-historia-detras-del-origen-del-pastel-20171202-0194.html
https://www.mercadosytendencias.cl/mercados-y-tendencias/tecnologia-y-procesos/sabores-e-ingredientes/la-historia-de-la-torta-un-delicioso-relato/1000/
https://cocinandoenred.wordpress.com/2018/02/12/tortas-origen-e-historia/
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Complications and distractions
**December has arrived, the most complex month for artists, especially for musicians...**
If you are just a regular music teacher, you lose your students for the vacations, which are the source of your economy, they are the ones who pay to watch classes, learn and advance more and more every day.
If you are a musician who only plays live you can do well or badly, it's all random. There may be events every day during the Christmas season, which will mean that you will not be able to rest and you will always be awake, but at the end of the year you will have some money but a lot of fatigue.
If you have bad luck you will not play in the rest of the year and your pocket will be quite affected, because you will see how the money gradually disappears from your wallet. You spend for food, gifts, to be with the family, maybe expenses and if you have done badly this year, your December will be much more complicated.
Many times December is the solution to the life of many musicians, because at this time they earn more money than in the whole year, but the exhaustion is catastrophic, you are always tired, sore and in most cases you do not share with your family because you have an event on the 24th or 31st and it is important to attend because they will pay very well and with that you can solve debts or a good part of the food for January and February, Since these are months where the year is just beginning, you will not be hired again as a musician or teacher because many people are still on vacation, so if you are lucky you will play in December and you will be tired, but you will have money for January and February and you will be able to rest what you could not rest in December.
Actually as I told you before, Luis (my partner) phone got damaged and that's why he teaches online, so we had no students or payment for a while, but we asked for a loan from an acquaintance to be able to buy a new phone, now Luis and I are working hard to be able to pay that loan, we have already paid more or less, but we want to finish the year without loans, so we have decided to lower the prices of our classes until the end of January, we are also giving certain free classes so that people know us and are encouraged to continue to see more classes and so we can guarantee that by January we will have new students, I have also created an advertisement where we are making a discount of 30% of all our classes, to try to get the attention of people and to be able to generate income.
Our bike also got damaged the same day the phone got damaged, we have invested a lot of money in it and still we have not been able to repair it, so we had to leave it alone for a while while we get more money, I hope to fix it before the end of the year.
My distractions lately have been very few and they have really been to keep moving forward and studying. I can say that one distraction has been playing piano, Venezuelan cuatro, bass and guitar daily, but that would be a lie because really what I am doing is studying so I can improve, keep moving forward and preparing myself to tackle more complex songs, my goal for this year is to learn minimum 20 songs on 4 instruments, but the day goes by so fast and we have had so many evaluations that my study time has been a little crazy, but I have tried to keep studying the instruments daily and I have managed it for 2 weeks and I hope to keep it up. So as such my distraction is study to improve.
The other distraction I have had has been drawing, but that is not a distraction for me, just like learning and advancing in music, drawing is advancing in my way of painting, I want to be able to make faster and prettier drawings that call attention to start selling them, I would like to be able to make about 15 drawings for the rest of the year, but the time of dedication of the drawings is still a lot and it takes me several days making corrections and I do not always have the computer, because we have a good computer for two, and it is Luis's work computer...
After getting out of all the debts and finding new students as before (most of them left the country due to the economic crisis, the inflation of our country and the pandemic), in spite of all the negative things we want to have students again and with that money we will invest to buy a better computer for Luis and I will stay with the current computer to continue working and advancing in my designs. I will show them below, I hope you like them, I made them as cute and funny as I could.
My idea is to combine cute animals with desserts or food from different countries, the first cat really had some cookies and was gray but I did not like the design, so I was modifying it until I got that cute kitty on a tower of hotcakes.
The next cat was more planned and easier to make, since I had the idea in my head for a long time, I have never tasted this sweet that is a dango, but it always appears in the cartoons I usually watch, so I understand that dangos can be sweet desserts or can be salty food where they add sauces.
The next cat is not finished yet but his dessert is a jelly.
I want to do several drawings with this kitty and then draw another pet, that is, my plan is to have several drawings of the same pet.
My dear friends of read.cash, complications will always exist, it will be up to us how we face them and move forward. Have a nice day.
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**Tuesday, December 06th**
Big birthday day
Welcome once again to my readings, my dear friends of read.cash, I have been very absent and sorry for worrying you especially my friend @ARTicLEE
I have been living many bad and chaotic things, with which I try to fight daily but many times I don't want to continue the battle is too much for me, it's hard for me to continue, there are so many negative things that I just want to lock myself up to cry, I can't always express myself and my negative and positive feelings want to explode and come out, but I don't know what would happen if that would happen, so I stay with them...
However, today I don't want to talk about anything bad, on the contrary, I want to talk about good things, I want to keep the negative for a while, hide it, hide it....
I want to talk about positive things, I want my soul to be well today and feel that I can still do and live good things.
Last year I was able to give her a lot of things thanks to my earnings in read.cash, my father's earnings in read.cash and the hard work that my brother has had, we all got together and raised a lot of money to be able to buy her everything she wanted. This year it has not been possible to do something like that because my brother is going through economic problems, I also have many economic and emotional problems and I have not been able to generate the income I want, my father has also had several economic problems and can no longer use his computer to continue earning money, my dad's computer is damaged, but well, despite all the bad things and our situations we got together again to give my mother a surprise.
With the money raised I was able to buy her a pair of gloves for gardening, she really likes that and also in her free time she is selling cactus and succulents to be able to have more money and those gloves will help her not to get thorns.
As for his party we were able to make a sharing with the neighbors where we made a variety of food, little food but very varied.
We bought ready-made dough for empanadas, we only had to fill this dough and fry it. The filling of the empanadas is fish, but I don't have pictures of this, however they were very tasty.
We prepared some nice sausages and spread with pink sauce, it would have been nice to make hot dogs, but it would be a lot of work and we already had other complex things to do.
My parents bought some pepitonas and we prepared this delicacy that was served with cassava. Casabe is like a thin bread made of yucca, its production and consumption dates back to pre-Hispanic times.
My parents bought cookies that were also shared with our family and friends.
The most complex thing to make were the pizzas, however, they could be made quickly, we bought ready made pizza dough and my dad prepared a super delicious sauce, the pizzas were simple they only had sauce, cheese and red pepper.
While my dad was cooking I made desserts, I made 4 desserts, I will give you the recipe later, 3 of those desserts are the first time I make them, so it was a new experience for me to prepare new recipes to make my mom happy and eat a lot of different things.
I made a moist chocolate cake that had more chocolate filling, on the sides and on top I had whipped cream. My dad helped me decorate it, because I don't know how to decorate and I made a mess, my dad improved everything I did decorating. The top of the cake has some strawberries that my dad cut as if they were roses.
This was the only cake that could be distributed since the other desserts needed a long time to rest in the fridge, but my mother distributed the other desserts with family and friends the next day, she made a coffee afternoon with sweets, I hope she had a lot of fun.
The other desserts I made also turned out very tasty, but they didn't have a good decoration, but they did taste good.
I made a chocolate brownie, it is too delicious, this can be served without decoration, you can eat it hot or cold, we tried it hot and then we tried it cold, the flavors change with the change of temperature.
I made a vanilla sponge cake that had a little strange preparation for me, it has whipped cream filling and strawberries, and it was completely decorated with whipped cream and a strawberry.
This dessert is very popular in my country and very simple to make, it is usually eaten in cold places like Caripe (Monagas State), Avila (Caracas - Capital of Venezuela), La Colonia Tovar (Aragua State), among other cold and touristic places.
The last dessert I have already prepared several times is a lemon pie, it is a simple dessert, it takes time for refrigeration and also takes decoration, but I was very tired so I did not make the decoration, my father did it the next day but we did not take pictures. It was really tasty.
All the desserts were really tasty so it was a total success, everyone was pleased. The food that was handed out was also delicious, so it was another success, this birthday despite the difficulties was quite fun, full of music, friends, family, sweets and food.
Every day is different my dear read.cash friend, we can't only see the negative, but sometimes that's what tucks us in before we go to sleep and we get upset, but we also have to try to see the good things that life brings us.
I hope all is well in your life and that you have a great day, I hope I can stay positive a little longer, I have college vacations coming up and I want to spend that time with my family, so I want everything to be ok so I can bring good thoughts and not bad or sad things.
Take care of yourself read.cash friend and I hope you have a great week.
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**Tuesday, November 29th**
A bad day sometimes turns into a bad week...
Hey read.cash friends, how have you been? I have been trying to be ok, but it has been very complex every day negative things happen that prevent me from being ok.
My bad week started on Saturday November 12th, yes, it is rare that I start the week on Saturday, but since that day things have been getting worse and worse.
On Saturday I woke up very early because I had a lot of things to do, I had to go to a place I could not get to. In that place I had a meeting with my classmates and teachers from the university, that meeting is part of a subject and we were being evaluated, I could not attend because a stranger did not stop following me since I left the house, then at the bus stop other people arrived who looked suspicious, I started walking to another place different from the bus stop and those people were still following me, so I had to go back to the house, halfway to the house they stopped following me, but they did not stop looking at me, I do not know who they are, but they already know where I live, I had never seen those people.
On Saturday I could not go to my university activity, so I stayed at home working and doing my other homework, in the afternoon Luis had to give a class and then he had a concert, I wanted to go to the concert, but the time of the concert coincided with the time of the class, luckily many times the concerts do not start at the scheduled time, but much later.
Nobody could come to pick Luis up because he would be giving the class, so luckily luck was on our side and the concert would be near the house of a friend, so we could go by motorcycle and leave the bike at my friend's house, the streets are really dangerous to leave a motorcycle there in the dark.
In the end Luis didn't give the class, his student is traveling and forgot to say it, so all that time Luis stayed waiting for her, so we had to leave on the motorcycle quickly to the concert, we couldn't have dinner, we arrived there very punctual, they had scheduled us at 6:00 pm and Luis would play at 08:30 pm, so we had arrived quite early, but they didn't let them do the sound check, it's ok, we hoped everything would go well. Actually we don't have much money so we couldn't have dinner while we were waiting, everywhere they were selling food and we were really hungry, but well, we kept waiting, they were only going to play for 30 minutes and that goes really fast when you are enjoying yourself.
The concert started really late, so all the bands had to change the time, now Luis was going to play at 10:30 at night, that's ok, we kept waiting and enjoying the other bands. When it was Luis' turn and everyone was on stage they asked the group to get off, a boy would sing first, even though that person was not on the list to sing, so Luis' group went down and waited for that person to sing, that person would only sing for 30 minutes, but it was not like that, he lasted 1 hour singing and making jokes that had nothing to do with the reason for the festivity.
That party is a Christmas party, so it did not look good for a person singing another kind of music. Luis went back on stage at 12:00 a.m. and they made them come down again, it turns out that later there was a problem with the musicians of his group and the owner of the event so they would not play anymore. After all that waiting they were not going to play, that made me feel bad and upset a lot, but that's ok.
Then the person who was upset from the group apologized to the owner of the event and they were able to play at 1 am, then we left on the motorcycle (it's really dangerous to drive at that time) and we arrived home at about 3 am really very tired and we didn't have dinner, we just went to sleep, we had to stop at 8 am because we had to give an early class, so we couldn't rest. We woke up on Sunday, we were super tired, we made breakfast and left for class, but the road is really damaged and it was dangerous to drive, there was also a lot of traffic, so we were 20 minutes late for class.
One of the new people in the class because of which we changed the schedule to Sunday mornings was really upset because we were late and I decided to drop the class and not attend anymore. That made us feel really bad, because all the effort spent did not help much, one person got discouraged and will not attend anymore.
Just so you understand a little my dear friend, we charge for giving music lessons at home and online, but because of our university we are giving free lessons in certain places, but we have to have a good number of students and work more than we normally do, that is, we go to the comfort of several people's home and give 3 hours of lessons totally free just for one subject of the university, when normally we charge between $15 to $30 for lessons just for 1 hour of lessons, so if one person leaves and we are making all the effort to go and the lesson is free it makes us feel bad.
After that several new people attended and that motivated us a little more, but since we were late we decided to continue the class for many hours and so it was, we finished at 3:00 in the afternoon, we hadn't eaten anything, just breakfast and then we had to hand out flyers in the community to try to have more people wanting to see free classes there. We arrived at the house at 6:00 in the evening to have lunch and then run out because Luis had to play again, it was a crazy day, nobody from the group wanted to come and pick Luis up, so we didn't know what to do, we had to go by bus and then walk a lot in the dark without knowing where we were going, because we didn't know where the event was, after 1 hour walking we found the place, it turns out that the event was starting at 3:00 in the afternoon and that Luis was playing at 3:00 in the afternoon: 00 in the afternoon and that Luis would play at 7:00 at night, but it wasn't like that, when we arrived which was at 8:00 at night the event was just starting....
Luis' band would be the last one to play, so we had to be active all night and enjoy ourselves so that everything would work out well in the end. We danced a lot and enjoyed ourselves with some friends we had found there. When the dawn came and after so much waiting they told Luis that they were not going to play because of the time, but the event continued, so we stayed enjoying because they would take us home, so we had to wait for the event to end.
At 03:00 in the morning they told Luis that now they were going to play, that was bad news in a nutshell because many of the group had already gone home, so they had to ask for help from the other groups. It was good to see Luis play after all the effort, but he could only play 3 songs... An unknown person took the instrument from Luis' hands and started to play, that made me very upset because that instrument is mine and I don't lend it to anyone. Then the person didn't want to return the instrument and didn't let Luis play with his group anymore.
So after so much effort I could not see Luis play all the songs, we both went home very upset, wanting to talk to the group and tell them that this should not happen, it is wrong, because if that stranger hits or breaks the instrument he will not pay for it and I am left without my instrument. It was a really exhausting day, like the day before we arrived home in the morning, tired and hungry, but we went straight to sleep, we couldn't take it anymore.
Monday was a holiday so we didn't go to class, we took that day off, I'll tell you later what happened that day, we decided to do something good after all the bad things that have happened to us.
But good days don't last long and bad days last long... Tuesday we had an evaluation, since we woke up late and the class is very early we had to leave without breakfast. I prepared a lot for the evaluation, but it was an interrogation and for some reason I got very nervous and could not answer well, so I failed the evaluation, it was the lowest grade, we left the classroom and I started to cry because I was tired, hungry, late at night and sad. We decided to go home and the bike wouldn't start, it had been damaged at the university... We had to wait 5 hours for someone to come for us because I had left my phone at home and Luis had no way to call, so we borrowed a phone and started calling many people to see who could look for us, so we didn't have breakfast, we didn't sleep well and we hadn't had lunch. A stranger came to pick us up and helped us to get to the house with the motorcycle, first time I live that horrible experience, I was on the motorcycle of the stranger and this stranger was pushing our bike with his foot. It was horrible and uncomfortable.
When we arrived home we started to check the bike, the battery or the system that charges the battery was damaged, that's why the bike did not start. We had lunch, then Luis gave a class and at the end his phone turned off and did not turn on anymore, his phone has been damaged again, so all the information we had from the community and everything we did on Sunday and the previous weeks has been completely lost, to this day Luis is still without a phone because he could not repair it and we have no way to buy another one. The following days we could not go to class for lack of money. The washing machine was also damaged and so the whole week has gone from bad to worse, we could not go to our niece's baptism, we had to borrow money to buy the necessary tools to fix the motorcycle, among many other negative things that have happened to us. Everything has been a chaos and has turned the rest of the month into something horrible and full of debts, but I do not lose hope that little by little everything will improve for the better and stop having so many negative things around, I still will not give up...
Well my dear friend of read.cash this has been all my tragedy today, I only hope that the days get better for me and for you, that the negative disappears to be able to enjoy the good things in life.
Have a happy day, see you in the next article!
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***Monday, November 21st***
Promise not kept - Total Disaster
On Friday 04, I had to travel to my parents' house, not only to visit them, but also to take some things that they need and that I have. So on Thursday I packed everything I needed for that day, first I had to go to the university and when I left the university I would go to the bus terminal, from there I would take a bus to another state, which is where my parents live. Everything had to go according to plan, everything goes with a specific schedule, the time to leave the house, then the class schedule and finally the time to go to my parents' house, it can't be that late because the buses work until certain hours, and it would be silly to go to the city where my parents live and not be able to go to their house because of lack of transportation.
But something very tragic happened on Thursday, really something very sad that's why I couldn't go to my parents' house, I didn't go to the university because of fear and because of what happened.
On Thursday it was raining all afternoon, a really crazy rain, it was not a rain to relax and have a coffee, no, this rain was threatening a big storm, the breeze was so strong that it moved all the roofs, it shook the walls, we were really afraid.
All Thursday afternoon it was raining, a big heavy rain, really scary, it threatened to keep on raining until the night and so it happened, the rain never stopped, it flooded the streets, it also flooded houses, but that was not the most tragic thing, the rivers overflowed, everything was full of water, the big storm was flooding us, that day many lives were lost, Several places collapsed, houses, buildings, mountains, the rain washed away everything, people were hidden in the houses, many people were not found, others were found in very bad condition, but most of them died, many people died, many people were injured, people were left without homes, without children, children without parents. It was a really horrible day for many, a day full of chaos and sadness.
Because of this also the road to go to visit my parents was obstructed by everything that fell from the mountain, by the trees that were destroyed and that prevented me from traveling, really these days I have been very afraid of the rain. Many friends lost their relatives in the storm.
On Friday I had to go to class at 8am, but I had not slept at all, it was raining out there, when it became daylight it was still raining, even if it was not raining much at that time, but I did not have the courage to go out, I was scared, the streets were wet and many were even flooded, they were terrible days.
Today I went to the university again, as you know I study inside a park and at this time we have to be very careful because some snakes escaped when it was raining, so they can be very close to us and we don't know it.
It is really crazy what is happening with the weather and it fills many of us with fear, but it is what is happening because of the little care or respect we have had for the environment, I just hope that everything gets better for the better and that no more lives are lost, it is really tragic to hear that, I know that death is part of living, but it is horrible when it comes to you when you least expect it.
I have finished my painful article today my dear friend from read.cash, I hope you are well and that you keep improving to be a better person every day.
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**Greetings from Venezuela!**
***Monday, November 07th***
Problems also bring good things
It is already the second time that I write about something good and something bad is coming hahaha life is totally crazy, just after publishing good things something happens that doesn't let me keep writing. Since a few days ago the internet company had some problems because of the rain, lately it has been raining a lot so some cables were damaged and left me without internet for many days, so I lost several opportunities to publish in read.cash, publish my drawings and maybe sell some, but well, I will continue to move forward with the things I have done.
Lately it rains a lot and very hard and that affects not only the internet company but many other companies, for example we have several days without drinking water, the water has not arrived, and since the morning of today we had no light. A few minutes ago the electricity and the internet arrived, so I took the opportunity to write for you and to publish something of what has happened to me.
I worked for many days a lot, but a lot, I really tried hard to sell some Halloween drawings, but because of the time and the internet problem unfortunately I could not publish my drawings or sell them, so I'm a little sad about that, I also managed to make my drawings have animation, that also cost me a lot, since I did not know how to do that and I learned a little in a week, I really still need to study but I do my best, I know that if I keep practicing I can do many better things.
Here I leave you two of my nice drawings that I was able to do.
https://youtube.com/shorts/V5JX2a0-gH4
Now I want to start drawing christmas stuff to be able to publish them since the beginning of December so I can sell them and have a little more money to pay the debts, buy food, pay the internet and try to buy some nice christmas gifts.
This is one of the Christmas drawings I did last year, it was December 2021, I hope this year I can do many better ones.
The university has absorbed much of my time, I have classes from 7 am to 3 pm, so I spend much of the day at the university, in the afternoon when I get home I try to help as much as I can, share with my niece, do my homework and chores and when I realize and start to blink it's already time to sleep hahaha It's really exhausting to want to do so many things at once, at least today I have to do a long homework that I need for tomorrow, but I also want to fix the room and my stuff, because tomorrow after college I will go on a trip to visit my parents. Today I must finish all the homework, clean and arrange the room well, I must look for some things that I can't find anywhere and I don't understand why, I must also arrange the different things that I will take to my parents, I feel that today I won't sleep hahaha I just hope that the light doesn't go out again, because it would be really bad, the whole room is dark so I have no way to arrange or do the homework, that happened today, that's why I couldn't arrange things in the afternoon, which is what I wanted to do.
In the afternoons lately what I do are investigations but I try to do them in silence, because Luis is working a lot on the internet and he needs total silence, if there is some noise then everything will go wrong, so I have to be quite quiet and investigate in silence or play with my niece without making noise, it is quite difficult to get used to this, well, not really, it has always been like this, but before I would go to a place where Luis was not working, but now we live with my in-laws and I can only be in the bedroom most of the time, so I have to be quiet in the bedroom while Luis works or I have to be outside in the living room quiet, but sometimes being in the living room alone is really uncomfortable for me, I don't like sitting quietly doing nothing, so I get bored, if I try to read I get distracted so there's not much I can do outside the bedroom haha.
But well, life is full of good and bad things, you just have to know how to enjoy everything it gives us every day and enjoy it. Ah, one last thing, I no longer need an alarm clock to wake up early in the mornings, now I have an alarm clock of nature, every morning a cute little bird comes to the window and starts singing, then attracts his other friends and start singing at my window, and makes me wake up full of joy, the bed is near the window, so my head is near the window where they start singing those cute little birds, filling from the beginning my day with music, I could say that it is totally natural music hahahaha
After waking up with that new alarm clock I fix myself very happy and full of life, and had a nice hot coffee watching the sky and the other birds that are singing in front of the house. In this house there are many trees so different species of birds usually arrive. Yellow birds with black, blue birds, black birds, brown birds, brown birds, birds of multiple colors, all arrive singing until here they stay and continue singing and whistling, that makes the hours pass quickly because I get distracted, luckily I always arrive early to the university.
The best of all is that when I get to the university I still hear beautiful birds singing, my university is inside a park that is full of trees, cats, dogs and birds, they all live there freely. Many dogs and cats come in sometimes to the classes, so you can make love to them while you are in class hahaha The director and many teachers take care of those pets, they take them to the doctor, give them food, give them their vaccinations and so, we all keep the park taken care of and the animals that are around.
Well my dear friend from read.cash I hope you liked my article, it was quite random, I will stop writing here for today so I can continue doing my homework, have a great day, eat healthy and behave yourself.
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***Thursday, November 03***
Small ray of light
Even if we are very deep in the ocean there can always be a small ray of light, a ray of hope that pushes us to come up to the surface and realize that not everything is totally dark, that there are still more things to see, if we keep looking without stopping we can find a light that gives us hope, no matter how deep that ocean is. If we have not yet located the light, we can find a friend who is radiating and give us some of his light or guide us on our way and in our encounter with the light that will help us. There is too much darkness around us, but we gain nothing by just diving in, we will not find the light if we just sink. We have to go out and explore a little, just as Ariel did, perhaps by rising to the surface we will find our light and our path.
**This is something that always happens, it is my experience and I want to tell a little about it.**
Every time things around me start to get worse, everything becomes difficult and dark, I always find a ray of light, many times that hope comes quite late and while I am sunk in the darkness I feel afraid, I feel bad, I just think about how difficult it is to go to the top and have hope, I stay surrounded by negative things, submerging myself more and more in the darkness, and when a little light comes I doubt, I investigate, I search and then I go straight to that hope and it relieves me of all evil and all the darkness that was in me, it makes all thoughts much better, but even though I am in darkness I do not let my mind be totally in darkness, even though I am sunk I always try to think positive, maybe that is why a ray of light, a ray of hope always comes to me, I take it with both hands and I am emerging again.
When the pandemic came we were so bad, we tried to be well, but it was impossible seeing everything around us, there was no water where we lived, the electricity was going out a lot, our food began to run out little by little, we no longer had work, all the students were afraid because of the pandemic, only the money we had saved was what helped us to survive a little, we ate 1 or 2 times a day, we had to buy water, we saw how the money disappeared, it was really terrible, many days of just crying, we could not continue the university because we did not have internet for so much research and work, Luis got very sick, Luis was in bed for a long time with fever, he could not move, it was terrible all that time, when Luis could recover a ray of hope came, a former student who is in another country wanted to return the classes online, so as we could we started to work with her, but with our balance, to put the internet at home was really expensive for us. With the hope of that new student we were filled again with color, joy and light. Everything was for the better, until the darkness returned again, we had to leave the place where we lived, they were going to sell the apartment, so the money we had saved again went to move to a new place.
And so it has been happening to us many times, every time we are in darkness comes a ray of light, which helps us to emerge and then the darkness returns to overshadow us, but as we know that another ray of light can return, then despite being surrounded by darkness we keep hope, lately we have been crying a lot, because we are having a great time, but we always remember those good and bad times where we still continue to emerge and move forward.
We know that no matter how bad we feel we can do many other things that make us feel good, we can find someone to make us feel good and help us to get a ray of hope.
**The new ray** that came to us was that someone hired Luis to play this Christmas, they haven't played yet, but he already has a place to earn a little more money, and as that is still not enough we got another ray of light, some former students who were abroad have returned and want to take classes with us again, Yesterday was the first class and it was really wonderful, but life still has many good things in store for us, because we just got one more student, a student who is abroad and wants online classes every day, that's right, **EVERY DAY**, it's really wonderful to come back and find so much light.
We have been able to put a good internet that goes at the speed of light, we currently live at my in-laws house and there are good days and bad days, but while there is the ray of light we will always keep hope, think positive and continue to emerge, I would like to achieve one of my dreams or my big goals, it is really difficult but with hard work I know I will achieve it.
I want to have a house of my own, they are really expensive, but that is why I must work without stopping until I can achieve this great dream that seems so far away. Having our own house we don't have to move all the time, normally we have moved because the place will be sold, we have been very unlucky with that, but life goes on and we want our own house so we don't have to worry about paying for a place or if they are going to sell the place where we live.
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***Sunday, October 30***
Never published article
How have you been nice people from read.cash? Here as always everything is difficult but I keep going. Some time ago I wrote several articles which I have in drafts but due to economic and time problems I have not been able to publish them. I moved, then I had to travel to take care of my mother who had surgery and recently I arrived at my new home with no internet, I had to ask for large loans of money to put the internet and to continue working here. I still have not been able to pay back the loans, but I am already trying to get back to work, there have been so many complex things that have happened, but that is part of life, it is the essence of our advancement as human beings.
I have also started college so I have been so busy with college that I have not had time for anything else, today I went to bed at 2am and woke up at 5am to get to college early, that is, I have only slept 3 hours, and so have been many days, I have so many jobs and commitments that I do not have time to eat or sleep, and that really makes me sick, because when we do not eat or rest the body gets sick and our brain too, that generates long term consequences, I just hope to get out of all the things I have on the list to be able to rest well, go out, sleep, walk, eat much better, I hope all these things come soon, I really have worked a lot, so I need to rest and enjoy that is also part of life.
I want there not to be so many complications these days, I really need to breathe a little and be free. There are so many things I want to do, I want to sleep, watch a movie, go to the beach, they are things that are not expensive, since I can go to the beach in an economic bus or on the motorcycle, I can also sleep, I just need the bed, I have several movies downloaded that I have not been able to see and all this is concluded to the little time I have, in these moments I have been able to write and I have had this short time because I am waiting in a shopping line that is really long, otherwise, I could not even have written a letter.
Here in the supermarket was that I have realized that I have not published my articles that were already ready, just for not having time, I will have to come more often to the supermarket at this time to be able to write for read.cash hahaha It is really wonderful to be here and I know that still follow very good people with great articles which I want to read, so I hope I can have a free moment to read them, I want to remind them and show them that here I am still here, trying to work and strive for everything I want.
Lately there has also been a lot of rains where I live, and that makes the internet signal not very good, there has also been floods in my country, which is really sad, nobody wants to go through that, we are all afraid of something like that happening to us, catastrophes make us bad, but I think this also happens because of our carelessness and our way of going destroying the environment day after day, but this is not a topic I want to talk about.
There are so many things and stories to tell and read here in read.cash that I know I will not have time to review them, but I hope to read as many as possible and of course leave you a nice comment full of energy, because we all move forward if we have inspiration or if someone helps us to get that inspiration.
Have a happy day dear people of read.cash!
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***Friday, October 28th***
Luck keeps coming
It makes me feel good to be lucky again, you don't know how sad and bad it is for me everything I have been going through all these days, finally I feel that luck is smiling again. Why do I say all this? Well my dear friend I have spent many months sick, then I had too many economic problems also due to my illnesses, I spent a lot of money that I really did not have, I started to accumulate many debts that I have been really very difficult to pay, I had to ask for loans to my relatives and friends, to be able to cover some medicines, doctor's expenses. After I started to feel better my mother has been sick for a long time, she also started to lose a lot of vision and she had a long time waiting for the appointment to go to the doctor to have the surgery, but it is not as simple as it sounds
She had to spend a lot of money to be able to pay for all the tests, and in some cases she had to borrow money from other relatives, so at the moment we are full of debts but we are working more than before, we still have 3 more operations for my mother and 1 for my grandmother, I am thankful that I am really well and that my father is also in good health. We are really doing a lot of things to be able to get more money, from playing on the internet, selling drawings, writing in read.cash, to our normal jobs and going out to sell in the parks and different streets, so we can keep saving and have much more money to cover all the problems that have arisen.
But... Why do I say I am lucky?
My dear friend of read.cash, despite all the bad things I have lived through these years, I am still alive, my mother is a little better and I continue to strive to move forward every day despite all the bad things that happen around, you have to keep living, keep emerging and always learning, to be better every day.
I am lucky because despite everything I have been able to sell plants these days and I have not returned home without having sold something, in the previous article I told you a little about my plant sales that I have been doing to help my parents. On my first day selling I made approximately $20 in sales of plants and materos, it is a great amount of money for me, after all, I have a long time without receiving good payments, so that filled me with a lot of joy.
On Monday 12th, I was from 9:00 in the morning until 3:00 in the afternoon working, it is the day I have worked the most, actually that day I was not going to go to sell, I was only going to meet a friend, but luckily I took my maticas, my friend had an inconvenience and it took her a long time to arrive, so while I was waiting for her I started to sell my plants. This day I made around $6 and it was good, I didn't stay late to sell but for my friend, we were talking a lot, we hadn't seen each other for a long time, so we decided to share the whole day.
Today Tuesday 13th, there were not many people in the street, however many people asked about the plants and their prices, today is not a pay day, people very few buy these dates, they prefer to buy after the 15th which is the day they pay. So I will be waiting for these people today to see them on Friday so they can buy some plants hahaha however today I sold several materos, I made about $5, so I have not done so bad in sales these 3 days. Sometimes it is a little more complex to sell that you get home with your hands without money, but I have had good luck and I have sold some things, I hope I keep doing well and I can bring more money for my parents.
I hope you my dear friends continue having a great day, I'll say goodbye for today.
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***Tuesday, September 13th***
Sales Day
As I said in the previous article, I started doing something totally new for me, something I had never thought of doing, but it's fun, the problem is that it steals a lot of time from doing something else, but that's ok. While doing this new job I enjoy the things around me, there is nothing worse than being always bad or feeling bad about everything, the good thing is that I have learned to feel good about everything, so the bad things lately do not affect me, everything is fine and everything will be fine, bad things are only temporary in life, so I will not stop I will keep going until I fill everything around me with good things, that is what is good for the soul and the body, to be well, to be happy...
Among these new things I started to do is selling plants. For a long time my parents and I have been collecting plants, but currently we have very few, but that does not matter, we keep buying and planting more and more in order to have a better and more varied collection. Several of these plants, a little more of another type and so we keep buying, planting and having more every day. The plants we have the most are the ones we sell, we make them very pretty so that people who come to see them like them and buy them, we have plants of various prices, this is due to the container where it is, the size of the plant, the ornaments that may have, etc..
These plants are not only sold by us, there are many more people who have come to our side to sell and have become our friends. We all have different plants, some bigger, some smaller, there are some pretty rare plants, some common plants and plants that unite one species with another, these are pretty crazy to me, but they are very beautiful. Of course, the weirder the plant the more expensive it will be, but my parents and I have priced the plants equally, because we don't have many strange plants, most of them are common plants.
Anyway, all these days (Saturday 10, Monday 12 and Tuesday 13) I have been selling plants in a big park in the city, I am there since 9:00 in the morning, so I leave with a good breakfast and go back home at 2:00 in the afternoon. While I am in the park I do not consume any food or water, because the covid is still rolling around and people are not taking care of themselves, I am one of the few people who still wear a mask and it is really uncomfortable for me to see the other people sick and close to me coughing and without a mask, it seems to me that they are doing things wrong, but that's life sometimes.
I have to eat enough and drink enough water before I go out so I can get through the day while I sell the plants. Sometimes I take a book with me in case I get bored, but everything is so entertaining that the time flies by, there is always something weird or new going on around and I get distracted by that, of course, that only happens when I am not attending to anyone.
This sales thing is a bit complex, sometimes there are great days but there are also very bad days, luckily I haven't had any bad days. My first day was Saturday, September 10. I was sitting there all day and I didn't sell anything, but I didn't give up, I was trying to sell and I couldn't, until I started to collect, when I was almost leaving they started to buy me hahaha. That day I sold 5 plants and made about $8, one of those plants I did not sell there, but on the way to the bus stop, a young lady asked me if I was selling the plants and I said yes, she bought me one almost immediately, so this day I came home smiling, it had been my first day and I made several sales. I was very happy.
In the evening of this same day I started to publish on the internet some pictures of the plants I have and... PUUUM!!! A stroke of luck, someone wrote me and bought me a bunch of plants and materos, he paid about $15. So this Saturday full of wonders I got paid $23 approximately, it was fantastic, of course this money is not mine, it's from my parents, I will earn only a part when my mother is better.
Oh dear friend of read.cash, I don't think I told you, my mother has been operated and I am taking care of her, so I had to make an emergency trip to where my parents live, that's why I have been selling plants, it is a way to have more income for my mother's medicines and operations.
Have a happy day my dear friend, in the next article I will continue telling you about my wonderful sales!
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***Monday, September 12th***
Things never done before
There are so many things to do and so many things that I have done, but there are also many things that I have never done.... There are so many things to do every day, from when we wake up from sleep, go to the bathroom, brush our teeth, take a bath, etc, then to eat or run off to work, to routine, it's the most normal thing, right? There are so many things we do 24 hours a day, from breathing, to making a coffee, exercising, working, petting our pet, many of the things are routine and some are not, as sometimes we do new things or out of routine.
There are many things that I have never done and that I would like to do someday, those things that will be new for me, a new reaction, a new experience, a moment that may be unique and unforgettable, a new sensation that may change the way I see life or think about certain things, but to do many of those things I must study a lot and I really do not feel good to study right now.... Right now there are many negative things around me that do not let me be well and that make me uncomfortable, so they do not allow me to move forward as I want, so I want to be a little quiet.
One of the things I had not done before are logos and advertisements, and I have already made a few, of course I need much more practice and study, but I have advanced well and little by little. I have made very different logos and advertisements, I already have more knowledge in the combination of colors, how some logos should be and so little by little I have advanced, the program I handle it much better, but sometimes I do so many things at once that I can not finish all the logos or advertisements in the time I want, but it takes a little longer. Right now I'm working on several things at the same time, I'm giving music classes or I'm trying to, I have no students right now, all my students left the country, the economy is really bad for many people so it is difficult to give classes that are paid, even if the payment is economic, everything is difficult, the classes I have given are free, but I spend a lot of gas when I go to those classes.
I am also selling clothes that are made by my mother-in-law, since my mother-in-law is a seamstress, she makes clothes for a living and I help sell them, although it has also become very difficult to sell clothes because of the same economic situation, very few people are buying clothes, they prefer to buy food with the money they have, but we all hope that someday things will change. Regarding the help I am doing for my mother in law, I have been several days making a logo and advertisements for the sale of clothes created by my mother in law, but she still does not know how she wants the logo and advertisements, so it is really difficult for me to do something for someone who does not really know what she wants.... I'm not really good at this, but I try hard, and it's really hard for me when someone doesn't know what they want, because even if I make a lot of logos if the person doesn't like it, I can't do anything but start again from scratch and that makes me feel a little bit bad.
I have also done other things that I had never done before like selling plants in the center of the city, in the parks and in all the places where I can sell, yes, before I had sold plants but not in this way, I only published them on the internet and sold them, I arranged a meeting place with the person and that's it, I didn't go around the city walking or sitting all morning selling plants. Now I am walking around with the plants in various places and selling them, with that I buy medicine and food for my parents. I have also been selling the plants online, soon I will create an Instagram to sell the plants and be able to reach many more people, I hope this business goes very well, because it is not only mine, it is also my parents' and it is the way they are buying food and paying for their things and medicines.
I would like to not only sell plants, I would also like to sell candies and chocolates like before, but everything is so expensive that it is really an expense to make all the effort to buy the ingredients and make the candies, and then they don't sell, I went through that before and I really wouldn't like to feel bad again because my candies don't sell. It takes me a long time to make filled chocolates, cookies, cakes, among other sweets, and then because of the situation they don't sell and I have to give them away, I lose a lot of money doing this, I can't lose so much money like that again, if I need it
So I have been doing many new things to be able to continue living, although everything is quite complicated, but that's life my dear friend. If there were no difficulties there would be nothing to overcome. Thank you for reaching the end of my article, I hope you have a great day!
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***Friday, September 09th***
Roads traveled...
Roads, roads, those routes that make us get from one place to another, but not all routes lead us to a good place, there are also routes that have an unexpected end, long roads, short roads. There are so many different roads that sometimes we don't know where to walk.
Dirt roads, uneven roads, rock roads, concrete roads, soft roads, hard roads, so many roads that we cannot walk them all in life, but I feel that I have walked so much that it seems that I have walked all the roads, but it is a lie, I have not even walked 1% of all the roads. There are roads that I always walk but I don't reach the end, some roads have no end.
How many people are now walking until they find their way?
I really don't know, I don't know how many people may be walking right now until they find their way, until they reach their destination and... Do we all have destinations? Do we really all have somewhere to go? I can't know that either, maybe we do, maybe we don't. Maybe many people do. Maybe many people get a good road where they feel really comfortable, and maybe before getting to that road there are many other roads to go through.
There are so many roads that we do not know where they will take us, all the roads we have traveled have marked something in our lives even if we do not realize it, there is always something in some of those roads that change us or show us something, although we are not always aware of our surroundings while we are walking.
Many times we just walk without seeing, just to get to our destination fast, but my friend, life goes faster than us, try not to be always in a hurry to get to your destination fast, try to do something better, leave early so you can enjoy the road, enjoy the whole journey, no matter if you always go through the same road, there is always something new in that place, you just have to look for it.
The roads we have walked are so diverse, some long and some narrow and still we keep walking them, still we keep walking and walking new or old roads, ***when will we stop walking?*** That I don't know, I don't think anyone knows, only one day we stop in the middle of the road, ***or should I say at the end of our road?***
Who knows how many roads we will be traveling until we reach the end... Who knows which roads we have to travel, there will be roads that we will like, roads that will take us to a bad place, roads where we want to be but it is very difficult to get there. There are roads that we want to travel and roads that we must travel, but we do not really know if all the roads will be good or bad, we cannot know that...
I have traveled so many roads, uphill roads, downhill roads, roads where I have slipped and got up again, roads where I do not want to go again but I have to go again.
And above all I have traveled many difficult roads, so difficult, that sometimes I sit down in the middle of the road to cry and I think I can not go on anymore, but not only I think it sometimes I say "I can not go on anymore", many times I have overcome that road and I have gone ahead even though there have been so many difficulties, but I have also gone through roads where I simply go back to the same place where I started walking.
At this moment I am walking a really difficult path, where many difficulties have been presented to me, I do not know how many times I have already cried, how complicated this path is... I have overcome certain routes of this path, but others I am still struggling to overcome them, at this moment I have found a big problem on the way, there are many forks and I do not know which one to choose, I have already chosen several and it has gone really bad, so I have returned to the main fork and I try to choose the less frightening path, but I really do not know which one to choose, I do not know where to go. I don't know if those new paths will take me to the same place, if they will take me to a better or worse place, I'm really scared, but I have to go on and continue the path, I can't just sit here doing nothing in the middle of the fork, I can cry here, but that won't solve anything, the best thing would be to move forward and really see what will happen.
I have to get to know these new paths, who knows if after I cross any of them I will find something better, I know I can also find something worse, but I don't want to be negative, I have had enough negative things around me and I have overcome them. I will follow the path that my heart guides me and shouts at me, then I will see what will happen, I hope I can find good things, because I have gone through many difficulties and I also hope that you my dear reader who is always there will also find many good things on your way.
How are you my dear reader? How is your life going? How is your path? I hope that if you find yourself in a difficulty in your path you keep moving forward and that little by little you can overcome it, because that is why difficulties exist, difficulties exist to overcome them. Everything will be fine if you believe in yourself and everything will be better if you surround yourself with good people who also believe in you, that helps us a lot to feel better and gives us a kind of superpower that tells us that we can overcome all things. Thank you for following read.cash and thank you for continuing to read my articles. Have a great day!
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***Wednesday, September 07th***
Broken laws
Laws... Laws exist for something and for something, laws fulfill a specific function, but are laws really necessary? Really yes, even if you believe that some are useful or are a priority and others really are not. There are many laws that we like and others that we don't like, but they should still be complied with, maybe there is a law that says that on Wednesdays we have to wear blue and I don't want to comply with that law, would that be right or wrong? I think that will depend on the country, on the norm and on each person's point of view.
But are laws necessary?
Laws have always existed, for many years, even if you don't believe it, but they were very different from what we know today. Laws help us to understand "what is right and what is wrong" according to the person in charge, maybe many of those laws are badly designed according to what we think, this happens because we do not have the same point of view as the people in charge.
Previously each person who was in the high ranks created a law according to what he wanted and what that person thought was right, but as there was nothing written people did not know which law was legal and which law should not be followed. So I guess it was really complex to be able to coordinate people in getting them to follow the law, when they didn't know which law was right and which law was wrong.
The first person who started writing laws was King Hammurabi of Babylon. He elaborated a code, the first in history, and ordered it to be written down so that no one would forget the laws, since this is something that happened a lot, as there are many laws, it was very difficult for people to learn them. Many people considered that his code was very severe, because when someone committed a crime, the most normal thing was to apply the death penalty. Hammurabi said that the code should serve to "***discipline the bad and prevent the strong from oppressing the weak".***
After that, there were many other ways of remembering, writing, and setting out the laws until they became what we know today, where there are laws depending on certain things. There are traffic laws, laws in the institutions, laws in the kitchen, laws at home and so on, some do not have to be written, this usually happens in the laws of the house.
Laws have been invented so that a group of people follow the rules that someone else thinks are correct, an example might be that at home a law says that you have to wash your plate after every meal. There are the laws at work, the most common one is to be on time.
Now, whether all laws are followed will depend on the country, the type of law and the person. **Why do I say this?**
I don't really know how other countries and their laws work, as I have not left my country, so I don't know what your laws are like. In my country there are many laws, like in any other country, but not all laws are enforced, why? I think this is because of our own education, our way of living, and our upbringing. It is very "normal" not to obey certain laws and usually people who obey or try to obey the laws are made fun of or insulted, I really can't understand this.
The speed laws in my country are: the maximum speed in the slow lane is 40 km/h and in the fast lane 60 km/h, but people usually go at 80 or even 100 km/h in the slow lane, much more than double the allowed speed, but there is no fine for this, the police only stop the people they want to, even if those people have not broken any law, they do it just to ask for money...
So this law is not enforced, normally we go on the bike and try to comply with the law of maximum speed allowed, but many people pass by with their cars insulting us "for going so slow", when really we are going at the speed allowed and they are not complying with the law. Of course, many times we can't obey the law because it is dangerous, all the cars are going too fast around us and we can cause an accident by obeying the law.
Sometimes the law of traffic lights is not obeyed either, sometimes cars start even if their light is not on. Why does this happen? This happens because if there are no cars coming in the opposite direction and you are waiting for the light to move forward, all the cars behind start honking at you to move forward, so they force you not to comply with the law, many times we have also received threats for not moving at the traffic light because it is not our light.
For a person who rides a motorcycle it is very difficult to comply with the law, because if you are near cars that do not comply they can simply cause an accident and who gets hurt is the person on the motorcycle. Many times it is said that people who ride motorcycles do not know how to drive, but that is not true, people who ride motorcycles drive that way to avoid having an accident with an unconscious person who is driving a car.
It is really sad that these laws are really important and can't be fully enforced, because you are risking your life, so even if we don't want to have to break the laws, we break them, after all, in my country they don't fine anymore for speeding or because we start with the wrong traffic light. I always think this is really bad, but either we obey the laws that nobody obeys or we risk our lives...
These are tough decisions when we are driving but we need to know when to obey them and when not to.
Oh, I almost forgot... It is so dangerous to stop at traffic lights because other people can steal your bike or things.... So, is it necessary to break the laws from time to time? I think yes, if it is something that puts our life at risk and that what we do does not affect another person.
My dear friend, what do you think about laws? Is it necessary to break some laws from time to time?
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Monday, September 05th
Green and blue mornings
When you wake up you can hear many beautiful birds singing, birds of all kinds and many colors, all always different. The singing of each bird is also different, they have very beautiful songs and other songs are really horrible hahaha.
There are also many butterflies, yellow butterflies, orange butterflies, red butterflies, blue butterflies.... So my mornings are quite colorful because it's full of birds, butterflies and any other beautiful animals that come near us while we are drinking coffee surrounded by nature.
I would love to be able to post the way we live now, but I am writing from my phone and it is so awkward to be able to upload images that I have not been able to upload any pictures, but that's ok, this is all "momentary", or so I hope. To be able to post from the phone I have to borrow a space, and sometimes that is very uncomfortable, they trip over the cable a lot and they can break it or they can break my laptop, so as long as I don't have a personal space to be able to use the computer, well I won't be able to write over there or read your articles my dear friend.
**Now...**
**Why do I say that the mornings are green and blue in spite of all the colors that surround us?** Well my friend, the color that prevails in the mornings and evenings is the beautiful blue of the sky and the green trees that surround us, so in spite of all the colors of all the animals that momentarily approach the color that always lasts is the blue of the sky and the green of the trees.
It is impossible for those colors to disappear, **can you imagine?** That you wake up one day and the sky is no longer blue, it is green or pink, it would be really strange, it would also be strange that the clouds do not look fluffy, **can you imagine rustic clouds?**
The green of the trees changes totally and they are pale trees or they are totally purple. How strange the world would be like this, that you are looking at a big blue sky and little by little it transforms into green or pink and it's barely morning. That your coffee is not black, but orange. The leaves of the trees change from green to purple for no reason, being still summer, it doesn't matter if it's spring or winter. That all the colors start to change like the lights on the Christmas trees, but that they don't follow any specific pattern. Can you imagine?
The sun being yellow, you start blinking and now the sun is green, you blink again and the sun is silver, you keep blinking and it turns to black and then to brown, that would be really strange, but you could play with someone a new game, the game of guessing what color the sun will be now.
Imagine looking for a blue shirt that you love so much and when you go out to the street they say "hey, how nice you look in that yellow shirt" and when you see your shirt it is no longer yellow, now it is pink. All that would be really strange, don't you think?
I've gotten a little off topic as I've started thinking and imagining different colors around. I don't think I'd want to wake up early and the sky is no longer blue, I'm really used to it. The blue sky, the white fluffy clouds, the green trees, the little birds with beautifully colored plumage, the butterflies showing off their colors as they fly, all of that surrounding my morning as I sip a hot coffee before heading out.
Green and blue mornings are all I think I need to be well. Mornings full of birds singing. Mornings with hot coffee and cool weather. I love these green and blue mornings.
I think maybe I don't want to change the color blue in the mornings not just out of habit, not just because I'm used to the blue of the sky, I think it's because of something else. Yes, it must be something else....
One of the colors I like the most is blue, my cup is blue, the kitchen utensils are blue, my towel is blue, I think I would not change the blue of the sky in the mornings because I like this color, maybe if I liked more yellow or green I would prefer to change the blue of the sky for a strange yellow and maybe that way I feel better, as maybe out of habit I would not change it, I don't know....
Right now I only know that I like these green and blue mornings, where I am surrounded by nature.
Hello my dear friend from read.cash, how have you been today? I am quite busy and tired, but I still wanted to stop by for a while. Have a happy day, I hope you are enjoying life in spite of the difficulties, I hope the sun shines tomorrow for you and me, I also hope everything goes well for us today, tomorrow and always.
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***Saturday, September 3rd***
When will he come?
I have been waiting so long for him, but something always happens and he cannot come to me... I sit on the sofa every afternoon, accompanied by my hot coffee, waiting for him to come to me, I wait patiently, then I think "today he won't come". I have been waiting for so long that sometimes I think if at some point I will be able to have him, but it seems almost impossible for him to come, I have done everything possible, but it seems that our meeting is something really complex and impossible.
I try and try as much as possible for us to be together, but it is so far away and it is so complicated that it seems like one of those loves that try but never see each other again, and because of this they must forget each other. But no, I don't, I don't want to forget him, I want him to be with me, I need him to be with me, I don't want all this time waiting to have been in vain.
I don't really care about all the problems that are happening around, I don't care if another difficulty happens, I have to keep on waiting and overcoming any difficulty so I can have him by my side, because that's what I want, to be with him.
Time keeps running, everything keeps happening, nothing and nobody stops to see what is happening to me, nobody understands why I keep waiting, some simply tell me to forget about him, that he will never come. There are few people who support me and tell me to keep trying and I will keep trying, it is more than just wanting, it is a need I have, I need to be with him and for him to be with me.
I would like to be able to go to where he is and bring him to me, but it is too much expense and I would lose a lot of time, I do not have a passport and to get a passport I have to spend many dollars, plus the waiting time for the passport to be delivered to me, that time can last a month or many years. After all this process I must have money to be able to travel and I don't have money for that, a plane ticket is really expensive and I can't go by boat because it is too far, it is easier for him to come to me.
Why is it easier for him to come to me?
Well, because he is ready to come, his ticket costs much less, he doesn't need to pay for the passport nor does he need to wait so long, if I want to go I have to have at least $1,000 in my wallet, while he only needs $50, he only takes 10 or 15 days to arrive, I could arrive in 3 days, but I have to wait years for the passport and as I said before, I don't have that kind of money.
Well the thing is that I want to be with him in spite of all the difficulties, I will keep waiting and waiting until he can be by my side. There have been many excuses and enough of that, I have done everything I can to make the excuses go away. Today I had to intervene in different accounts that are not mine to be able to make him come soon, I entered my brother's accounts, I modified some things, I fixed others that were wrong and finally I could send the shipment, so he can come, I have already waited 3 years approximately for him to come and I do not want to continue waiting, every day, every week, every month I write to know when he will come, but there is always an excuse but that's enough of that.
As I said before, this seems like a love novel where the main characters can't be together and they have to fight for their dreams and they have to fight to be together, I really feel it's an impossible love, but after so much time, I can't just abandon this feeling, I can't forget about him, it's really necessary for him to be with me.
Y... Why is he so important to me?
Well my dear reader, he is not only important for me, he is important for many people, he is important for Luis, for my in-laws, for my brother-in-law and for my parents. He has many things of great importance, so I hope he can come soon. He will help me in many things, he will also help me a lot in improving my drawings, he will help me economically, I hope I can have him soon to feel better, maybe being with him will make me feel better.
And who is he?
Well, he is important because he is a box, yes, just as you read my dear friend, he is a box. Inside the box there are many things that I bought with Luis, it also has things that Luis' brother bought, other things that my parents bought and so little by little the box has been filling up, I don't know how big it must be, but I need it right now. I have been waiting for a long time for all those things and something always happens, so it hasn't arrived, for a moment I thought it would arrive in December last year, but guess what? It didn't arrive. They haven't sent it, it's not the company, the company is really good, it's the person who has my box who always has a situation come up and he can't send it, but I can't wait anymore.
I logged into my brother's account (he is the one who has my box) and sent the package request to the company, the company responded immediately, so I hope to have my package soon....
I did all this with my brother's permission, he sent me the passwords and everything needed, I'm not a hacker class....
And you my friend, have you been waiting for a package for a long time? Do you despair because it hasn't arrived? Because I'm going a little crazy hahaha.
I hope you liked my article, I think I will keep writing articles like this for a long time, I'm not really well right now and this way of writing relaxes me. I've also been writing on my phone, it's quite stressful, but it's faster than plugging and unplugging the computer at home instantly because I don't have a fixed place to be due to the move
Well my dear friend, this is the end of my article, I hope soon to finish all the moving to read your articles.
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***Friday, September 02nd***
Random letters ever sent
I have been writing random letters that will never reach their destination, letters that I have thought over and over again in my memory and I have even written several of those letters in pencil, then I think it is a waste of time to write them, because I will never send them, I would like to tell you that I burn those letters to make them disappear or I crumple the paper and throw it away, but to tell you that would be a lie. What I do is to keep the letter inside a drawer in my memory, I don't like to throw the paper away if it can still be used, if I can recycle it I will keep it. I think or write different letters that will never know their owner, I will never know to whom it will be addressed, I do not always put the person's destiny in my mind, I do not want that by some mental error in my brain or by pure chance the letter arrives in the form of a thought to the people I think about, it is not because I have written something bad, it is because it would be really weird.
Why don't I send the letters?
Because I know that they will not get answers, many of them will be forgotten and others will not be read, so it would be a waste to write a good letter to a receiver who does not want to read the message or who really does not care to know what he will have written, there are many senders who send letters every day and receivers who will never read those letters because they are not interested in the content, or always say "***I will answer tomorrow"***, but that tomorrow will never come, I always think it is better to do everything you can today and not leave it for tomorrow, tomorrow will be another day and we do not know what can happen, so if you have a letter that you want to read, you have to read it today, maybe the sender is anxious waiting for the answer, now if you want to write a letter, it is something more complicated, but you can write it today and tomorrow you can review it again to send it, maybe the receiver is not yet ready to receive that letter, also remember that maybe the receiver does not want to read the letter or has forgotten to read it, anything can happen.
Between lines of madness and different thoughts, I keep thinking about each one of the letters I write in my mind, letters with words that are not fixed, so then these words will go with the wind, because these words will not be captured in sheets, only in memories and brain connections, so that only the user who thinks them can create and modify them in his own way, no one should remember things that they do not want to remember, maybe you and I have letters that are not addressed to anyone, maybe I have even written a letter to myself but among so many letters I have forgotten them, maybe it was an important letter, or maybe the letter said a silly phrase like: "***buy some nice bread for dinner***".
There are many other reasons why I will not send the letters and it is because I previously sent many letters, some were answered and others ignored, some answers that I received promised things that were not fulfilled and that were never fulfilled, those that were ignored I do not know if they were really read or just forgot to read them, sometimes I think they just left them on a forgotten table and that is why they did not answer them, maybe that is why I did not receive any answer. I sent letters of meetings to other people and they answered in a positive way that we would meet, but in the end I found myself, totally alone, totally sad, nobody attended, for many years I kept trying and they kept answering me that they would arrive and that they would meet, but I never saw them again, I went to all the meetings, but it was only me, Nobody else went and then they answered with excuses, at the moment I stopped writing and insisting, I realized that nobody was looking for me, nobody was interested in me, I really felt very sad for years, because I was never a receiver of anybody, they never looked for me and we never met again, however, after so much time without messages, without receivers and without senders, little by little I was overcoming it.
I kept writing, that had become a hobby, but I kept writing for myself, I also wrote from time to time for those people I considered my friends and that I never saw again, but I wrote in my mind and I thought myself the most logical answers that could be a response from the person to whom I imagined the letter was addressed. Letters made with love or sadness that came from the deepest part of my being, letters that wanted to see the light, but I do not want to go through the same thing again, to write letters that will have no answers, letters that will be forgotten on a table, or letters full of lies, I do not want that, I do not want to get illusioned again with false promises, so now the letters will always remain in my head, in my memory and in my heart.
I always tell myself that people live in a constant change, so maybe all these letters that are randomly in my head could finally be read, analyzed and answered, but maybe those people will only find it a nuisance to receive letters from me again, so I prefer to keep thinking about how to write and analyze better the letters that are inside my mind in a random way and that will never be sent because the former recipients to whom my letters were sent, have rejected or ignored them.
I want to keep writing and thinking about different letters, no matter if they are sent or not, I just want to be able to express myself, no matter if it only happens in my mind, I think it is better that way, that way no one tells me that I have made a mistake. From time to time I think that maybe I can send a letter, but then I remember all the pain and loneliness I went through when I didn't receive answers and I keep sending letters in my memory with and without an addressee.
Hello dear friend of read.cash, how are you doing in life? Around here everything is complex, but we are moving forward. I hope you are in good health, when I finish moving I will be reading your comments and articles.
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***Thursday, September 1st***
Unfinished thoughts
As the morning fell and the afternoon approached I began to think of many things. Things that came and went randomly in my thoughts, just like the cars that drove past the house, weird cars, random cars, broken down cars, new cars, used cars, forgotten cars, so came my thoughts and ideas, new ideas, old ideas, forgotten ideas, used ideas, crazy ideas, rusty ideas..
I asked myself many times, "***Where do so many ideas come from?***". But I didn't get any answer, my inner self and my brain couldn't process the question and send an answer? An answer was what I needed, a good answer straight to my lips that would tell me how to solve what is going on, an idea and an answer that would be as good as the hot coffee I am drinking, a warm idea, a sweet idea and that would help me to solve the things that have no answer or that I don't know their solution.
But in this sea of ideas where I am submerged and almost drowning another doubt arises..
"***Will any of these ideas work?***".
I really don't know, I have tried so many ideas, without getting a good answer, I have worked so hard for my future and my future has fallen apart, so I don't know what to come up with and I don't know if any of the old ideas will work, I don't know if any of the good ideas will find the light on the way and shine, that would be really fantastic..
An idea or an answer within my thoughts that can illuminate the darkness around me, that can help me and enlighten me and show me that it's not all trouble around me.
An idea, a light or an answer that can help me to emerge again, I think that's what I need, but I can't find that idea in this immense sea that I have inside. A sea that I cannot empty, but I want to try to take out a part of the plug that exists and that contains the ideas, to be able to take them out and try one by one which one is better or which one will work better.
I need ideas and answers to questions that are there, but that I still do not know how to ask myself or I do not know how to solve them, questions that I have tried to solve with old ideas and old answers, but they do not fit, the gears are not the same, it is not the right key, but I have searched among so many keys with ideas that I am really tired to keep looking for the idea or the answer to solve this question that is so complex, sometimes I think that I do not know how to decipher the question, maybe there is a puzzle to solve within the same question and I have not realized it, maybe that is why I do not find the answer to the question, maybe I have to re-structure the question to solve it, but...
How can I solve something that I really don't know if it is wrong?
It is a whole labyrinth full of words and complex ideas, maybe the least expected idea is the right answer, or maybe the idea that I think is right is actually wrong because the question is badly structured. Maybe everything is a code or a coded language that I have to decipher, **but I still can't find where to start? And how do I start if I don't know this weird language?**
So, what do I do?
First I would have to learn the language of the code in which the question is structured, so maybe I can figure out what is wrong with the structure and come up with the right question, if the question was really badly structured and after that I have to dive back into the sea of ideas and answers to see if any of these fit with the new question and if not, I will have to look in the drawer where I keep the other ideas locked up, ideas so hidden inside so many keys that I have already forgotten how they got there, maybe some of those keys half ideas fit with the question and give a solution to my problem, but if that does not work I will have to look under the mattress of madness, where I keep the craziest ideas that I do not know if it is a good idea that others know and if it turns out that none of these gives the solution to the question, maybe the question is still wrong and therefore can not solve it, and if so what do I have to do?
Do I have to keep looking for ideas that fit the question? O
Do I have to keep structuring the question until it fits with some idea?
Hello dear friends of read.cash, how have you been? Sorry for my absence, I am still moving and I am so stressed with everything that is happening that I have not been able to be here and I have no internet where I am moving or in the previous house, but they are some difficulties of life that I will solve later, meanwhile, what did you think of my article? I haven't really had time or good ideas for articles due to so much stress, but this one came to me today and I wanted to share it with you.
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Wednesday, August 31st
Parties and more parties / Doing new things
Hello dear friends of read.cash, how have you been these days? Around here there is a lot of rain or a lot of sun or a lot of wind. So much rain that we have not been able to drive the motorcycle well, when we have done it we arrived soaked at the destination.
These days we have been making many trips on the motorcycle despite the rain, and the holidays because these days are the birthdays of many relatives.
In the day we are greeted by a warm and hot sun, which begins to drown us in the heat, in the afternoon we have a storm with a lot of rain that feels like everything is going to end, they are quite strange days.
When it doesn't rain in the afternoon, then it rains in the evening, it is very rare that it rains in the morning but it can happen.
In the afternoons after the rain we get very sleepy and want to drink coffee, but it is so expensive that we have stopped drinking coffee, the dollar has gone crazy again, so all the prices are crazy in dollars or bolivars, so it is a bit impossible to buy food, only the prices of things go up but not our payments.
August is a month of a lot of parties, but it's also a difficult month for us musicians, well if you're not lucky. If you are lucky you make vacation plans, you have concerts and there you generate a lot of money, as much money as in December, but if you only work giving classes you may do well, but if your students go on a trip (as happened to me), well you are left without money and without students, so it is quite a complex month for us...
The first party we had was my father-in-law's party, there we had a sharing, we ate cake, we made a barbecue, we are more than 10 people, so everyone had to collaborate to make the food. It was a pretty quiet party, but what made me laugh the most was when Luis' nephew (7 years old) said "Grandpa, when are you going to take out the piñata, I already want to break the piñata and then eat cake".
We all started laughing like crazy and telling him that there was no piñata, it turns out that the piñata he saw was the one they were making for Isabella, who is Luis' niece, who's birthday was a few days after my father-in-law.
I think Daron (Luis' nephew) didn't think it was weird that the piñata was a unicorn, he didn't realize that this piñata didn't look good for his grandfather's party hahaha.
A few days later we started to prepare things for Isa's party, the snacks, the cake, but we celebrated 2 birthdays for her. A small birthday that was with the family, and a nice birthday that was on the weekend, where her friends from school, her friends from gymnastics, her cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. were there. That birthday was a unicorn birthday, there was a delicious cake, lots of dancing, prizes for whoever danced the best, for whoever made the best guess. There was also a lot of candy, the kids were very energetic so they danced all night long, I also had a lot of energy to run around the house.
I was able to take pictures with the piñata before they smashed it, and with Isabella and her cake, but I don't have all the pictures.
These days it was also Luis' aunt's birthday, we also did a sharing, we had a lot of soup, cake, raffles, gifts and we did something that really caught my attention...
We did a "Chinese bazaar", I had never participated in something like that, but from what I understand, Luis' family does that on the birthdays of Luis' mother's family. What is that, you buy or do, you bring a gift that no one knows what it is, someone randomly puts numbers to the different gifts, then they put other numbers in a bowl and you draw a random number, maybe you get the same gift or you get something else, which is the most normal thing.
If there are several people it works like this:
Let's say there are 10 people, the person who has the number 1, takes the gift that has the number 1, uncovers it and keeps that gift, the person who has the number 2 decides whether to take the gift number 1 that already saw it (before uncovering the number 2) or if he keeps the gift number 2 without knowing what it is, the person with number 3 decides whether to take the gift number 1 or number 2 that he has already seen or keep the gift he has not seen yet, and so on until he reaches number 10, but the game does not end there, the person with number 1 did not have the opportunity to choose another gift, so he decides whether to keep the gift he has or take any of the other 9 gifts, so the game ends.
In this game we were 15 people, I was number 7, I had to decide whether to take the gift to number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 or keep number 7 without opening it, but I decided to keep number 7 and it was some delicious cookies, my mother in law got number 1, so she had to wait until the end, what she got was some earrings, but she preferred to take the gift number 4 which was some towels and that was the end of the game, the person with number 4 had some towels but in the end she kept some earrings.
This was something really new for me but it was a lot of fun, in my country this game is known as Chinese bazaar, but I don't know the reason, I was looking for it but I didn't find the answer I wanted. However, it is believed that Chinese bazaars are actually an invention coming from Mongolia, but this kind of bazaars are not a game like what we do, these bazaars are made in public centers and they are usually for selling local products or of great interest, but they are also used as a tourist venue, so I don't know where this name comes from for a gift exchange game.
Well dear friends of read. cash, so much for my article today, I hope you liked it, I have not been able to be as active as I wanted to be because I am still moving and I have no internet and no fixed place to work, so it is quite problematic for me all this, and I am really very tired, no matter the time, we are always carrying things from one place to another, we are not eating well and that makes us always tired, we must vacate the house before Friday, I also have another situation which is that they operated my mother and I have to travel to take care of her and I do not have money to travel, so everything is really complicated, but well, that's life.
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*Monday, August 29th*
Storm day
It's been a pretty quiet day like any day when I wake up early. I left the room, went to the bathroom and then sat outside watching the sky, listening to the birds and drinking a nice hot coffee.
While I was watching the nature, my coffee was slowly running out, I was thinking what would be the plans for today.
I sat down to work or rather to make a present, while Luis made breakfast, it was his turn to make breakfast today. Tomorrow Luis' niece will be 7 years old, the same little girl I have been giving music lessons to, so I have been making a special notebook for her, a music notebook with her favorite songs and new songs for her to keep practicing and learning more and more.
So many things to do and so little time, suddenly, the door outside rang, she had arrived.....
The next birthday girl is always coming, so it is hard to be able to make a present for her, I had to stop making her present and start doing anything else and so I have been like this all day or well almost all day, if the birthday girl is at home, I can't work let alone make her present.
The birthday girl will be gone in the evening, so I have to wait until late so I can still make her gift. The gift is handmade, so, if I start making it she will start asking me what is that, what is that for, what does she want one too, and that would be the end of the surprise. At the moment, since we haven't completely moved to my in-laws' house, I still don't have a room where I can do these things, so we will have to wait for her to go home to be able to continue with the gift.
I decided to fix a few things and make room around here, I went back and forth fixing things. Then I decided to go to the house to look for other things and bring more clothes, instruments and everything we have over there, I also went to wash more clothes and fix the house. In many parts of my country we have been without water for many days, but where I lived before there is a tank, so we can wash clothes and bring drinking water from there to my in-laws' house, it is really horrible the situation like this, as far as we know in my in-laws' house there are already 8 days without water, how can you live like this? Yes you can, but it is really difficult, it is very complicated, especially if there are so many people living in the same house, if it is very hot, etc.
Ok, so we decided to go to the house, do the laundry, get more water and clean up over there, but... Oh no. These months are months of a lot of rain and even though we have been keeping an eye out, there is no telling when it will rain.
Yesterday the weather was cold, and it was all full of gray clouds, but it didn't rain, not a bit, the clouds have fooled us. Today the day has been quite warm, but....
When we were leaving the house with two big bags and drinking water, it started to rain, but there was no turning back, we had to start....
It is really complex to be moving to another place in rainy seasons, especially if we have to move things on the motorcycle, yes, we have gone back and forth many times on the motorcycle in the rain, it is dangerous, we know that, but it is the only way to transport our things, right now we have no money to pay someone and the only person who can help us is really busy and with a bad car, so we have to move with a gray day, full of storm and with the motorcycle.
We have been moving with bags, all the things that can fit in two bags, then all that is emptied in an orderly way in some boxes that we have in Luis' parents house, while the room is not totally ready we can not order things, besides we have to wait for Isabella's birthday to pass to arrange things, there are many things in our next room and they will stay there until Monday, so we have to wait a little, but we still have to get things out of the house, so we have to get things out of there no matter what is going on.
So well, grey days come and go, the important thing is to see the rainbow that the rain will bring. Thanks for reading my article my dear friend from read.cash, I try to be posting constantly even though I don't have internet or a fixed house.
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*Wednesday, August 24th*
Crazy days
Getting up late is not one of the best things I can do at my in-laws' house...
I'm still in the process of moving from the rented house to my in-laws house, so I haven't been able to write and I don't have internet in either house, so I'm using up my phone balance little by little, it's so expensive I don't want to spend it, there are so many things going on at once that I don't know where to start, Luis has damaged his phone again, most probably it will not turn on anymore, but I pray it will turn on again, Isabella's niece's birthday is in a few days and we have no money to give her a present, it is really stressful moving, cleaning, the birthday, little money and little food at the same time, they are really difficult days.
Adapting is easy but also complex, so I am still organizing my ideas, but it is not fast enough if I find it hard to sleep, I wake up a little sore because I have no place to sleep, only a small mattress on the floor and it is really uncomfortable, there are many good and bad things, the bad thing is getting up late at my in-laws' house, why?
When you get up late you have to make your own breakfast, I have no problem with that, I used to do that too, I have done that for years, but now, before you make breakfast you have to wash all the dirty dishes, glasses, pots, pans, frying pans they left before you woke up, why do they do this? I don't know, they don't like to wash, so Luis and I have been in charge of cleaning the kitchen and different parts of the house. If you wake up late and want to go to the bathroom urgently, you will have to wait, because someone will probably be there, there is only one bathroom and almost 10 people living there.
Previously when I woke up I would go straight to the bathroom without problems or maybe Luis was there, but it didn't last long because he knows that I need the bathroom too, so there has never been a problem.
If you wake up late there is too much heat, the sun is unbearable, there is a lot of noise from the street, the people living there, they are all shouting, Luis' brother is building at any time of the day, so it is even more noise, so waking up is quite uncomfortable and shocking, especially if for 6 years I have been living alone with Luis in great tranquility, it is a very abrupt change in my life and my emotions.
The difference in our previous homes and this one are many... Especially if you get up early. Living here and getting up early you will have many positive things:
The warmth of the sun is soft and makes you feel pretty good, you wake up little by little with its light, so I do stretches in the front part of the house, where I can get some sun and be in contact with nature and the different plants I have around.
The morning coffee is really tasty and warm, it is not cold coffee or you have to reheat it, so you enjoy a good coffee while watching the quiet nature waking up around you.
I usually drink my coffee in the morning at the front of the house, so I can listen to the birds singing and the smell of the wet earth makes me feel fresh.
It's not too noisy, so I wake up slowly without much disturbance.
The dishes are all clean, the kitchen is clean (because we cleaned it the night before and they haven't dirtied it yet).
We eat freshly made food and we don't bother anyone, if we get up late everyone is walking and working from one side to the other and they don't let you have breakfast, they ask you for any favor, so breakfast can last until lunch time and they won't let you do anything, you will have wasted the morning.
The places I've lived before have been apartments or houses without gardens (not counting my parents' house), pretty small places, enclosed, some without windows, so I couldn't see the sun in the mornings. The last place I lived in did have some big windows, but I couldn't get warm in the sun like I do now, I didn't have birds singing or the smell of wet earth, unless I watered my little plants.
Yes, I had a comfortable bed and a bathroom just for Luis and me, but there are other things that also make me feel good, like being surrounded by nature.
I spent my whole life living among flowers, trees and different plants that my parents have, so I have always seen that green color in my mornings, along with the beautiful blue sky, I also had at my parents house the smell of wet earth and the birds singing, so that makes me feel really good, no matter that the world is falling apart, that makes me feel fresh and happy.
Living at my in-laws' house there are a lot of advantages and disadvantages depending on what time you wake up, something that has never happened to me before.
This is my sixth time moving, of which I have moved alone 2 times and with Luis 4 times.
The first time I moved from my parents' house to an aunt's house. My parents have a small but comfortable house (small in comparison to my aunt's house), we always ate together as a family, it has a patio full of plants, I can see the plants and part of the sky from the dining room window and the smell of wet earth, so I was happy and I didn't know it. In my room I could hear the birds singing, it was beautiful, although sometimes they made a lot of noise if I wanted to continue sleeping hahaha.
Moving to my aunt's house was complex, it was a much bigger house, but only the two of us lived there, my room had a window, but it only overlooked the neighbor's house and when midday came my room was an oven, so I could not stay in the room in the afternoon, it was very hot. My aunt did not wait for me to have breakfast, as my parents do, so many times I ate alone, and if I got up first and made breakfast, my aunt did not eat with me, it was sad.
From the dining room I couldn't see outside the trees and the sky, because the window was far away and always had the curtain, you couldn't open the window, so I had to sit looking at nothing or the TV, without the birds singing, the smell of wet earth or the plants.
Then it got worse, I went to live in another residence... Yes, I rented a room from my aunt, she had a residence for women in her house, but the other person was never there, I only saw her once.
In the new residence there were no windows anywhere, there were no windows in the room, in the kitchen or in the bathroom, there was no way to see out, everything was enclosed, I couldn't tell if it was day or night unless I saw the time on my phone, the sun didn't come in anywhere, and I was isolated from the smell of the wet earth and the birds singing, I only heard screams and fights, I lived with 9 women, it was hell for me, everything was disorder, fights, screams, there were only three bathrooms and I shared the bathroom with 2 very dirty women, I was always cleaning their dirty things and scolding them, they always left the cleaning of the bathroom to me. I learned to live really alone because I was a bit isolated from them, although I also made 2 good friends, but I saw them very little, they were always out or partying. Cooking was problematic, 4 burners for 10 people, there was no way to wash the dishes, the only part was a small space where the dirty water from the washing machines came out and where they also poured the dirty water from the toilet, that was really disgusting....
When I left that small room where only the bed fit, I started to live with Luis, it was the first time we lived together, but this will be a story for later...
Today I told Luis that moving has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are that our memories come back, we start to remember everything we have lived together, the good and bad things we have gone through, we start to find the useful things and discard the useless things. The disadvantages are that we start spending money on trips for moving and carrying things, having to organize two spaces at the same time, adapting to a new place, it is really complex.
This has been all my update for today my dear friend from read.cash, these days have been pretty crazy, so I can't promise I will write daily, but I will try to have another story for you tomorrow.
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*Tuesday, August 23rd*
I have 15 days left!
Oh no... I knew this day would come, but I didn't want to count the days or see the dates, it's really terrible, terrible!
I have been working hard and trying to earn money, although everything has been really difficult, I have really tried hard, but I can't always reap what I sow, it may still be many years before that sowing bears fruit and I can harvest.
Everything is so difficult, I have concentrated so much on working that it has been difficult for me to enjoy, I am in a comfortable place, with its pros and cons, but everything is fine or I try to make everything fine.
Now I only have 15 days left starting from today, what will I do? What can I do? I don't know yet, I have to research everywhere to see how to increase my income at the same time that I am moving, yes, I will move again and I really don't want to....
Today they told me that I have 15 days to vacate because they are going to sell the house, it's not the first time this has happened, it's already the 4th time I have to move because they got a buyer.
What is one of my biggest problems when moving?
My biggest problem is sadness, yes, just as you read it, it is very sad for me trying to work and work and not being able to buy the place where I live, a place where I have spent many good and bad times, where I have lived so many things, and not being able to buy it, I want it for myself, but it is so expensive, I feel I will never be able to buy something of my own because it is so expensive....
Another of my problems is moving, looking for a place to live that is not so expensive, nowadays we don't have money to rent, the economy and inflation has taken all our savings, so we don't have how to rent a new place, so we will go to live at my in-laws, there live many people and there is not really a space there for us, but it is the only place where we can go and everything goes well.
Another problem is the habit, getting used to things, the new kitchen, the new fridge, the furniture or beds, bathrooms, neighbors, external noises, all that, in the last places where we have lived they are so quiet that I love it, but where we will live there is a lot of noise, but it is not because of Luis' family, they are external noises, from the neighbors, from the cars, there are many dogs, I have no problem with dogs, but in Luis' part of the job, having 3 dogs that bark a lot is a problem, since he will not be able to make music. At Luis' parents' house there are 3 dogs that spend the day barking, that will be really complex to calm down, the only solution would be to somehow seal the room where we will be so that no noise can pass through, it is the only solution, but it is complicated...
Not only I have 15 days to move and leave everything impeccable here and fix everything where we move, I also have 15 days to be able to make approximately $150 and that is a really huge sum, I don't know if I can get that amount of money only in 15 days, but I will try, I will not give up whatever I went through, I have 15 days and I will take advantage of every second, every minute, every hour....
Why do I need so much money in such a short time?
Maybe you are asking yourself that, but both Luis and I work directly with internet and where his parents live there is no internet connection, so we would have to have money to be able to put the internet and keep working, we have many projects going on and only that way we can keep moving forward. So I hope to be able to reach that goal in 15 days, nothing is going to stop me, not even the bad weather, not even if the coffee runs out.
What projects do I have in mind?
Well, I have already started on my projects and Luis too, right now Luis is creating music of different styles, he has a good client, but he still has a lot of things to learn and do so he can get paid.
On my side I am drawing, right now I am doing any kind of drawing, I have published them before, what I have not published are prices or my social networks. Really right now any support is good for us, even if it's just sharing our content on twitter or Instagram.
There are other platforms that I was researching to generate passive income, I know the process is slow, but if I never start I can never have the income, so I have to start as soon as possible.
I leave you some of my drawings with their prices in case you are interested in something similar, I can make discounts to any good friend of read.cash, you can ask me to draw something like that for you and I will do it between 1 to 3 days depending on the complexity, I also have a support page although I still don't know how to use it well and it's Ko-fi. So now I'll be everywhere hahaha.
Oh, I've lowered the quality of my drawings so I can upload several without spending so much internet. I hope you like them!
Today I said something very important to Luis and that is "**difficulties make us overcome things, if there were no difficulties, there would be nothing to overcome",** my dear friend from read.cash, what do you think about my new phrase? I hope you have a great day today and you can accomplish all the goals you have for today!
**Thank you once again for reaching the end of my article.**
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**Greetings from Venezuela!**
*Friday, August 19th*
Why go to another country when I still don't know my own?
Hey there read.cash friends. How have you been? I'm still without internet service, but I'll try to get it back up and running soon.
Yesterday I was talking about one of my dreams, which is to travel. I have always said that I want to know my country first before traveling to another one, but as the situation is, I think it is easier to travel and know other countries than to travel in my own country. This is a second part of what I was talking about yesterday, if you didn't read that article you can read it here. https://read.cash/@ArteFM/places-in-my-country-that-i-want-to-go-again-c56bc0b3
Colonia Tovar
This place is quite different from what I normally see, but it is also a very beautiful place. Its streets are very different from what I'm used to, the streets are quite steep, so it's a bit scary, but it's still great to be there. The streets are steep because this place is on a mountain. It's a cold but cozy place, I've only been there once and I remember at 4 pm it was already dark and everything was full of fog, I think it's the first time I saw so much fog near me.
It is quite a touristy place, so all the houses are very similar, all the architecture is similar to the architecture of Germany in the 19th century, so this makes the town keep the same colors, and the people dress very differently, their dress is from another era, so it makes it more attractive for tourists.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia_Tovar
I also remember that we walked through the strawberry fields and the peach fields and it is really beautiful, but I don't know where all my pictures from this trip have been, I know I was small but I took several pictures.
This magical city is in the state of Aragua, it was founded by Germans, so they have kept the German culture there. Its climate is really nice if you like the cold, thanks to this climate you can grow peaches, strawberries, beets, carrots, lettuce, potatoes, etc., and these crops are also part of tourism, as they take you to those places.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumento_natural_Pico_Codazzi
This place is located within the limits of the natural monument Pico Codazzi and near the Henri Pittier National Park, so I also had the opportunity to visit these two beautiful places, although I do not remember much about them.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_nacional_Henri_Pittier
**Margarita**
Margarita is an island popularly known as the "Pearl of the Caribbean" and is located southeast of the Caribbean Sea, this island is really close to the islands of Coche and Cubagua. I have only been to this wonderful Island twice, and it was when I was little, oh, all the trips have been so many years ago, that's why I want to go back and make new memories in those places.
The first time we went to margarita we walked along the boulevard, through many of its streets, we toured much of the island and I remember we went to the Sambil, we also walked through the parks, visited the church and bought many chocolates. Margarita Island is a very popular and touristy place, but what is most striking are its festivities of the Virgin of the Valley and the purchase of chocolate.
In Margarita chocolate is relatively inexpensive, there is even a place called "the world of chocolate", there you can find a variety of sweets of all kinds, so it is common to go to Margarita and come back with many chocolates.
The second time I went, it was a little more exciting because I remember it much better, we visited the same places as the first time, but we also went to different places, this time we went to many parks.
We went to Parque el Agua, it is a park in Margarita considered the first park of this style in the country. It is a park with many slides and pools, it is a really huge place, I would love to go there again. There are so many slides that you don't know which one to go on first, it also has a pool that takes you around the place, you just need a float and that's it.
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We went to Musipan which is a Venezuelan theme park. This park has several attractions of the Venezuelan humorist Er Conde del Guácharo. This park is characterized by exalting the typical way of being of the people of eastern Venezuela in a funny way. It has multiple attractions, from comic theaters, swimming pools, slides, donkey races, but what stands out most are the different scenarios that have for each performance, at all hours there is the performance, you can spend the day watching the shows or you can enjoy the pools. There is also a spa, discos, jacuzzi, game room, etc.
The last place I went with my family is the Diverland park, in this place there are many attractions of all kinds, you can play golf or baseball, there are roller coasters, slides, race cars, bumper cars, bumper boats, children's games, trampolines, a guaya for adults that takes you from one place of the park to another with a height of more than 12 meters, there are many attractions to make you dizzy haha, there are also shows with dolphins, shows with seals, it is really entertaining to go to this place.
Tourism in La Isla de Margarita is really immense and important in the year 2009 there were around 2,711,000 tourists, but this decreased for the year 2016, where there were only 480,000 tourists. 2016 was a really difficult year for all Venezuelans....
Margarita Island has many beaches with conditions for surfing, scuba diving, windsurfing, kitesurfing and other water sports, as well as historical colonial towns, it also has many different parks like the ones I mentioned above
Well my dear friends of read.cash, I hope you have traveled with me in this story and that you liked it. There are still many places that I have gone to talk about and others that I would like to visit, especially outside my country, I would love to travel the world and have beautiful memories in different places, learn about their culture, music, gastronomy, etc. The world is a wide and wonderful place that I want to discover.
**Thank you once again for reaching the end of my article.**
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*Thursday, August 18th*
Places in my country that I want to go again
Hey there read.cash friends. How have you been? I've been a bit busy, so I've been away from read.cash, I've been drawing, making music and working, I also don't have internet service for quite a while, which makes me even more away from the platform, but here I am again.
Talking about my dreams, I have many, and one of those is to travel, I would like to travel around my country like I did when I was little, but right now it is really complex, not because of the money issue, but it is also quite unsafe. There are many places in my country that I don't know and others that I want to visit again with Luis. Oh, by the way, Luis has created a read.cash, but as we have not had much time or internet he has not been able to publish more articles. He has also been working a lot recording songs, he is doing very well as a producer, I hope he keeps going and we can travel wherever we want.
**Caripe**
Caripe is a very beautiful, comfortable and cool place, I have been there many times and I have always enjoyed going and walking through its beautiful streets. Caripe is a small town in Monagas and is known as the "Garden of the Venezuelan East". Here they grow vegetables, oranges and coffee. I have a very close friend who is from Caripe and every time we met he would give me coffee that was grown, processed and roasted by his parents, it is a very delicious coffee and smells great, I think it is one of the best coffees I have ever tasted.
In 2018 I had the opportunity to be able to raise enough money and travel with my family and Luis' family. In Caripe we had a lot of fun and spent a few days sharing as a family, grilling, eating strawberries with cream and visiting the Guácharo cave, which is one of the most important and well known tourist places in Caripe. The Guácharo Cave is one of the most important natural monuments in South America.
I would like to go there again and enjoy this wonderful place, eat strawberries with cream and walk with my family through the paila, which is another tourist place in Caripe, to get there you have to walk for about an hour up and down the mountain and crossing several bridges, it is really entertaining but you can also get tired if you do not have enough stamina, because it is cold there and you have to do a lot of physical activity.
The place we stayed at is an inn and the owners of that place are my friend's parents, so they welcomed us with a lot of love and showed us all around their home and their beautiful flowers.
**Araya**
Araya was a very important place for me in my childhood, and although I know it very well and Luis has been there several times with his family, I would like to go with him, since we have never traveled there together. I want to enjoy the sea and the sand, and walk around the big castle near the beach, even though it is not like it used to be a few years ago. Araya is a town in Sucre, and it is a town famous for its salt mines and for the castle near the beach. The castle was declared a national historical monument in 1960 and in 2002 the salt flats were nationalized as "Salinas de Araya".
Araya is also known for its beautiful beaches and its warm and quiet atmosphere, it is quite a touristy place. I remember every time we went there on vacation, there was no space to walk, everything was full of tourists, we had to go very early to the beach or at night, praying that there were not so many people, on normal days there are not so many people, because it is a small town.
My mother and grandmother are from there, so I have a lot of family there which I haven't seen in many years, so if I ever go there again, I would like to visit my family.
The last time I went to Araya was in 2015 and I had gone with my family and some friends from college, I remember we were on vacation because Carnivals had started. It was a really nice and important trip for me, my friends got to know Cumaná and then they got to know Araya, we were able to enjoy two places where I lived during my childhood.
Mérida
This place is really beautiful and I would love to go again, I have only been once. I would like to go to the parks again, ride the cable car, walk around and get to know the city. I remember the people there were really nice to everyone. It was a really beautiful, touristy and magical place. From my trip to Merida I don't have any pictures and if I do I don't know where they will be, as I was quite small when I traveled to this place. I remember very well that I made this trip with my mother, my grandmother and a very close cousin.
Mérida is one of the main towns in the Venezuelan Andes and is located between the mountain ranges of La Culata and Nevada, which makes this place stand out as an important tourist center.
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I remember going to a Zoo, I think it is the second time I had been to one. There were many beautiful animals there, I remember there was also a big lion, I like those animals very much, they are very beautiful, the zoo is called "Parque Zoológico Chorros de Milla", in this place there are also tigers and bears. We went to the Beethoven park and to the ice cream parlor of the thousand flavors, I had already written about the ice cream parlor before here in read.cash, going to Mérida was a really wonderful trip.
I also remember that to go to the cable car they bought me some purple gloves and a purple hat, so I wouldn't be so cold, however I was freezing hahaha. The good thing is that I was eating a lot of chewing gum and chocolate so that the altitude would not affect me so much. In the final part of the cable car I could see snow for the first time and I played with a friend with the snow. It was really fantastic, I want to go again and take Luis and have as much fun as I did.
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Well my dear friends of read.cash, I hope you have traveled with me in this story and that you liked it. There are still many places that I have gone to talk about and others that I would like to visit, especially outside my country, I would love to travel the world and have beautiful memories in different places, learn about their culture, music, cuisine, etc. The world is a wide and wonderful place that I want to discover.
Thank you once again for reaching the end of my article.
**See you in the next article!**
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**Greetings from Venezuela!**
*Wednesday, August 17th*
The day it all ended
It was Tuesday afternoon, the day was beautiful, the sun was shining, the birds were singing like any other day, it was a magnificent day, who would have thought that everything would end that day?
We woke up early as usual, while I was in the bathroom, Luis was fixing the room, it was a good day to work and study, so then we went to make a good breakfast to have enough energy, we prepared some arepas with cheese and fried egg, we also made a delicious coffee with milk, nothing could ruin this good day.
We started to work from our computers, Luis was concentrated in the room and I went to the living room. I remember that there was a lot of sunlight coming in through the windows. I made as much progress as I could in my work, because later we were going to have lunch at my in-laws' house and there is no internet there. I packed everything I needed to continue working there even though there is no internet.
We took our food or well, what we were going to need there for food, rice, chicken, etc., we were going to meet some friends at my in-laws house to continue working with them, we had an exhibition soon, so we had to continue studying and working there.
The sky was beautiful, I did not understand how days ago they had told us that a cyclone would pass through the whole country, as it looked like everything would be very bad with that cyclone they decided to cancel classes and work, we were on alert and could not go out, but in the end nothing happened, we had 3 days off because of the cyclone, but the cyclone never came and that relieves me, there were no injuries or anything, so I was relaxed the rest of the days.
This day everything looked beautiful as always, so we went to Luis' parents' house without thinking about the consequences. Arriving there we started cooking and our friends from the university arrived, they were going to eat with us, so they helped us to prepare a delicious meal. The food was ready very soon and suddenly....
The whole sky turned gray all of a sudden, thunder, lightning, and very strong breezes started, so strong that you could see whirlpools in the yard, we moved away from the windows, everything outside started to fall down and hit the walls, it was the end....
Everything was so horrible and terrifying, we felt that the breeze was going to take the roof and it did, the breeze took many roofs, bent others, broke trees, it was destroying everything in its path, luckily the roof of my in-laws is well glued and could not take it, but still we were very afraid ....
The light was flickering a lot, the breeze was sweeping everything and the rain wanted to flood us, in those moments we did not think about anything bad, we were praying that everything was ok, while all that crazy moment was happening we sat down to eat, we did not want a bad weather to ruin our great day
After several minutes that were eternal, the breeze stopped, but the rain never stopped, it continued for many hours, we did not want to give it much importance, many crazy things are happening in the world, we just have to know how to act in front of them.
After lunch we started to do our work, it was due the next day, there were no more days to deliver it and they did not suspend the activities in spite of what was happening. In many places they were without electricity and water for many days, like in our home, in my in-laws' house this did not happen and I am very happy because thanks to that we were able to finish the work.
So that day it was all over, the last job we had to deliver was finished, in spite of how difficult it was to do it and all the turmoil, we were able to finish the job on time and get a good grade.
Thank you very much my dear friend from read.cash for reaching the end of my article, I hope you liked it, really thank you for continuing to read them even though I have not been able to be so often writing here.
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***Tuesday, August 02***
I made a mistake
Hello kind people of read.cash, how are you today?
Oh, I have run out of sponsors, but that has been my fault, I have not really been in good health and mood, so it is difficult for me to write, I spend the day drawing or doing other things that make me feel better, however, all this time who has paid my bills has been read.cash and I have abandoned it.
My mistake started when I was overloaded with things and work at the university, so I didn't have time to be here, then followed many illnesses that made me rest for a long time.
I also started to see other ways to earn money, so I started to draw online and this took a lot of my time, because I had to improve my drawings, but there is a problem.
None of my drawings have sold! So that put me again the mood on the floor, I have dedicated a lot of time to draw and yet I have not been able to sell a single drawing, but I will keep trying, this has been my biggest mistake, is that I have seen how many drawings are sold daily and that is quite a large sum of money and I for my economic need started to draw, since each drawing pays more than an article, but I should not have left read.cash aside, I lost everything I had achieved in this time.
But I really didn't feel well enough to write, and I'm not well enough today, but I try to write, because I know that this gives me a little relief but it also helps me economically.
I will leave you here my drawings so you can see how I have progressed, if you want to follow me in my new social networks I will also give them to you. Actually this is not the kind of drawings I wanted to do, but they blocked my previous account and I had to start drawing other things... It was something negative for me that they blocked my account, but I'm fine, I've been going through a lot of difficulties lately, so I'll keep moving forward.
Sorry for not making good articles as before, but as I told you, I'm not really well.
This type of drawing usually sells very fast, but I have not been able to sell any, I guess I lack more experience or better drawing.
Thank you very much my dear friend from read.cash for reaching the end of my article, I hope you liked it, really thank you for continuing to read them even though I have not been able to be so often writing here.
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***Monday, August 01***
Little Mily Victoria
Hello beloved read.cash community, how are you today? I hope very well, in spite of everything that is going on around me I am fine, or I try to be fine, I don't want to let negative things affect my rhythm of life.
Today was a wonderful day, like every day. Previously I had already told you about the new baby that came to the family, a beautiful, calm and healthy girl. It is amazing to see how every day she grows and changes much more, children grow and change very fast and sometimes we don't realize that because we are focused on something else...
This beautiful little baby is called Mily, and she is very quiet, she is already one month old with us, she celebrated her first month on July 15th, so it has been very happy and full of care for her, we hope she keeps growing beautiful and healthy.
Today Monday, July 25th, the little girl was presented in the church, that is to say, we went to mass, we enjoyed there a sharing and some little baptisms, not only Mily's, there were many beautiful children with their families, children who were also going to receive the blessing.
After the mass and the baptism, the priest gave all the children who had attended cookies, lollipops, chocolates, etc., the children left the church even happier with their blessing and the snack.
It was a fantastic mass, I had never seen that priest before, he is quite nice and his mass is quite good.
After church we went to my sister-in-law Rosi's house, where a nice snack of cookies and coffee was waiting for us. My sister-in-law can't drink coffee or eat chocolate cookies, but she can drink chamomile tea, so that's what she did, and she ate cookies that didn't have chocolate in them. It was a great sharing.
We were almost all there, only Luis' older brother and my mother-in-law were missing. My mother-in-law is traveling and my brother-in-law came home very late from work, he was tired and didn't have money to attend mass or my sister-in-law's house.
We really enjoyed being at Rosi's house, the last time we went was for my sister-in-law's birthday which was on Father's Day itself and we had also gone to meet the little girl. I wrote about this special day here https://read.cash/@ArteFM/special-day-6017e3ab
At the mass everything went very well, and the sharing was not only about cookies, we also talked about music, sang, danced and watched movies. My sister-in-law Rosi told us that she could already sing, but not much, she is still resting, the good thing is that the school classes have come to an end, all the children are on vacation, so she will start her job as a music teacher in September, so she will be able to rest enough to be ready to teach.
When we decided to leave we were invited to lunch, so we made a big lunch where we all collaborated, it was quite economical, but we all contributed some money, we are not all economically well, it is quite difficult to earn money and buy things, because every day things are more expensive, but that is another topic.
This day was fantastic, I really like it when we get together with the family, because we talk about the good and bad things and we help each other if someone does not see how to get out of a problem, but that is what the family is for, to love and support each other.
After all this good, something bad happened, but it is not so serious. When we were on our way to the motorcycle, a car unintentionally threw it to the ground, this car was parking but was not careful, which made the motorcycle fell and scraped, but all its working fine, luckily we were not on the motorcycle at that time, so we lifted the motorcycle, checked and then we left, the motorcycle is fine, only the paint was damaged, and the most important thing we are fine, we are exploring about other projects to be able to have money.
Thank you very much my dear friend from read.cash for reaching the end of my article, I hope you liked it, really thank you for continuing to read them even though I have not been able to be so often writing here.
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***Monday, July 25th***
The environment and the arts
Hello dear friends of read.cash, how are you today?
I am fine, trying to work on many things to have some money haha if you follow me for a long time and have read my articles you will know that I have been working with a community, bringing art and teaching different types of art.
If you haven't read them I'll leave them here:
Different Sunday https://read.cash/@ArteFM/different-sunday-c442dfac
Art with recycled material https://read.cash/@ArteFM/art-with-recycled-material-a9430bca
Nature is your friend https://read.cash/@ArteFM/nature-is-your-friend-40ff8972
Importance of keeping beaches clean https://read.cash/@ArteFM/importance-of-keeping-beaches-clean-66a7c59e
Fun at the beach https://read.cash/@ArteFM/fun-at-the-beach-5c0d03d5
I study in an art university, I have recently returned, when the pandemic started I could not continue my studies because I had no internet, so I had to leave the university for 2 years, but well, things happen for a reason is what I always say.
Now that I'm back I want to do everything I couldn't do before. In the university there is a subject that we usually call PAC, which stands for Proyecto Artístico Comunitario, this subject we see it during the whole career, so we have to do 8 community projects throughout our study, if we do not enroll in this subject we can not enroll in the others, this subject is mandatory.
What does this course consist of?
We have to create a project that is related to our study but that we can take to the community, we have to teach the community what we know and at the end, the people of the community have to give a sample of the knowledge they learned with us, whether it is a concert playing the guitar or singing, show us how they drew at the beginning of the project and how they draw now, a dance or a play, everything will depend on the arts that are included in the project. We actually have to do 3 written projects with their guidelines and then 5 field projects, that is, where we work directly with the community.
I am not yet working in a community, but I am helping my couple Luis who is working with a community, his project links art and the environment, we do clean-up days on the beaches, we give talks about caring for the environment, we sing or play songs with the guitar that have to do with the environment. In this project there are partners in the arts, in theater and music, there are still no partners in dance. In music we learn to read music scores and everything related to musical language, we can play the guitar, the cuatro or the violin, which are the instruments that are taught at the university and we can also sing.
The best thing about all this is bringing art to people in the communities that need it most, such as the elderly, children or young people who like music or the arts, but have never seen art classes, this helps and motivates them to enter this world and develop different skills, they can also use it many times as a distraction, entertainment or to show that they are capable of learning other things.
It has really been a wonderful experience to work with all the people in the project, from the youngest in the home to the adults. Little by little I will tell you a little more about this wonderful project, in which I have to start including myself in the guitar, musical language or cuatro classes, before I only collaborated taking pictures or recording videos for my classmates, since they need it to present it to the university professors and have their proof that they have done their work in the community and that they are doing it well.
Another thing I like about doing these projects is that it is something that is totally free to the community. Many times people in the communities have told us that they like music or visual arts, but they never had the time or money to study this and now they have it for free close to home. This is usually said by older people, because they no longer work and spend a lot of time alone in their homes, well, this is what we have seen in most of the communities we go to. We establish a day and a schedule with the people of the community for our meetings, the only way they change the date is by some rain or storm which is what has happened lately, we work outdoors, so there are no roofs to shelter us and most of the musical instruments we use are made of wood, so they can't get wet because they get damaged.
This wonderful project that unites the environment with the arts we work as I mentioned before in open spaces, so our shade are the big and beautiful trees that exist around the community. So far my article today, I hope you like it my dear friend from read.cash, soon I will be uploading what we have done in this project and how it has progressed.
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***Wednesday, July 20***
Special day
Today is a super day, it is a special day, Mily has been with us for several days and today we finally went to see her and meet her, we had not been able to go to the hospital to meet her, they only let in the grandparents, so we had to wait several days for Mily to be home and get used to her new home, to be able to meet her.
So on this special day we met the cute Mily, we shared a lot with her, she is really cute and very quiet, she is so small and delicate, I couldn't hold her, I was too scared, so I just petted her a little, but I didn't hold her.
But this day has more special things, today Sunday June 19, is the birthday of Mily's mom, my dear sister-in-law Rosi, so we were sharing a lot with her on her birthday. She was quite tired and sore, still swollen from the pregnancy, but she was really happy that we were with her and that in spite of all the problems we went through in the country we were able to bring her a present for her birthday.
We gave her pineapples, papayas and jelly, so she could eat better, we have been told that fruits and jelly are good for people who have just had a baby, but that she should not eat very sweet or acid fruits because it can raise her sugar or the baby can have some stomach problem, so we looked for fruits that would be good for Rosi and Mily.
We were all sharing with Rosi and Mily during the whole day, there were the grandparents, all Luis' siblings and nephews and nieces. We ate a delicious Chinese rice which was prepared by my mother-in-law and Luis, we also had some soft drinks, except for Rosi and at the end we sang birthday to her, we all collaborated in the making of the cake, from the purchase of the materials to the preparation of the delicious cake, the doctor told Rosi that she could eat cake but not too much, and that it could not be chocolate cake.
To close with a flourish, this day was also father's day, so we shared with Luis' dad, his brother-in-law and the new father, who is Mily's dad. Mily is Alejandro's first child, so we were teasing him a lot, because Mily was going to be born after father's day, but they moved up the date. So we celebrated a lot of things on this day, so it was great despite all the problems around it.
So my dear friend of read.cash, despite the negative things in life, and the bad things that may surround us in the day, we must always try to see the positive things that come our way, we must take advantage of life and enjoy it, remember that we only have this life, so we must always try to be happy, it does not help much to be always sad or upset about the problems, instead of sitting only to see the negative, we must look for the positive and be a little more cheerful and always try to help others.
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***Sunday, June 19***
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