It's Halloween and time to check How Dark is your Core. 🎃🎃 Happy Halloween Read.Cash people 🎃🎃 Did you know that Halloween was originated in Ireland? Well, I did, who says that watching TV doesn't teach you anything? **Samhain** was celebrated between October 31 and November 1, and marked the end of the summer and the end of the harvest period in Ancient Celtic Culture. They all gathered around big fires after burning their empty crops and danced and prayed for the sun not…
Bring it on November! I have Read.Cash on my side! Welcome November! Today is the First Day of the 11th month of the year. For me, it has special significance due to it is also the day my father died, two years ago. Each 1rst day of every month is a sour day, for I remember him every day but those days are the hardest. It hurts badly, but for each day that passes, I learn how to cope with it day in and day out. I try to think what would he say in moments such as this when I…
Random Questions to kick-start my brain. After a hard day, my brain is drained. In comparison with other days, this one wasn't so bad, but, my health it's misbehaving again so, I'm on minimum charge. Plus, I had to give an exam today to my student in Peru, and that didn't help much with my headache. I started to write something though, a short story, but I'm drained, I couldn't connect one sentence with the other. Then I thought that I'd write about food, but I'm hungry and…
The Ultimate Connection. **Wednesday, the third day.** Already three days of November have come and gone and I'm still charging my batteries. I was going to let the day pass without publishing anything except some comments because you guys are great and I couldn't let the day end without responding to you. Then I read my friend @Frankmart latest article ***Making Connections to keep everything Connected***, an idea that came from @CoquiCoin ***Connecting what isn't…
In Love with a ghost. Today I saw a short video on Instagram, and my heart filled with a wide range of emotions. It was from a man I haven't seen in twenty-two years and probably doesn't remember me by now, but, every time I see him I blush, I smile, I dream. **What does this mean? Is it possible to be in love with someone I don't know and who doesn't know me?** It troubles me for a number of reasons, and even though seeing him gives me all these wonderful feelings, I can't…
No more words. What would my life be if I lost the ability to speak my mind? Better yet, to speak at all. **Would I be happier? Or would I be miserable?** It doesn't matter really, nobody hears me anyway. My words are just as invisible as my body. The sheer volume of my voice could not break the barrier that separates me from everyone else. I remember the time I was in the middle of the fields shouting to the pawns that a storm was coming, and no one heard me. I remember…
What you see is what you get. **I'm a sweet tooth, there's no way to hide that.** Even if I'm on a diet due to glucose peaks, I can't help to have my mouth watering at the sight of a **Chocolate Cake** or a **Dulce de Leche-filled donuts** or just the Dulce de Leche would be enough. But, I've never wondered what kind of sweet am I, as the matter of fact, what kind of dessert would I be? https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/uncategorised-recipes/dulce-de-leche-doughnuts/…
Rambling-Mumbling-Stumbling Hi there! I woke up today in a foul mood, I didn't sleep well last night, and for me and my illness that is **No Bueno**. That increases the pain and discomfort inherent to Fibro so, 7 am, cranky, and in pain, the perfect beginning for a Sunday. I decided to drink my coffee because life is better with coffee, and then I stole my mom's cellphone to check my Facebook account to check out some memes with the hopes of improving my mood. The opposite…
Food Journal: When I had my Pizzeria in Naples... **Memories, memories...** As we're getting back some lost traditions and customs in our household, one can't help to feel a bit nostalgic about the fact that not all of us can enjoy the return of those happy moments. For many people Covid has taken their loved ones, in my case it was a mixture of another illness and depression and as a result, we lost our father. However, as I often say, day by day we try to cope with that…
Beginnings, Endings, Beginnings. **Is life supposed to be birth live and die? Or can we be reborn while living?** I asked myself that question today, as I was in rehearsal in preparation for the upcoming event of El Sistema: **The World's Biggest Orchestra**. All the participants of my town young, old, older, were summoned today for a first rehearsal to review the pieces we're going to perform, along with almost **twelve thousand musicians** from all over the country.…
Like a Kid on Christmas. 5 am. I got out of bed in both anxiety and excitement. Like Christmas morning, the expectative to see what's under the tree, if Baby Jesus brought me all the I had asked on my letters, then going out to the neighbor's house and playing with the other kids. What a joy! Wait! I haven't even packed yet and we are living in 4 hours! Well, I'm not going to start packing now, I'll wake up everybody and I just can't do that. What I can do is make some…
Record Guinness: The World's Largest Orchestra-Day 1 Hello all, I'm back! After three days of buses, sun, no sleep, only bread to eat, and more sun, I'm finally back home and with a heart full of joy and pride because I was part of **The** **World's Largest Orchestra**, and it's my birthday also, so yey!!! As far as I know, there were over twelve thousand musicians from all over the country giving the greatest gift we can give: our music. My heart was overwhelmed when the…
Today I was supposed to write Day Two from our Record Guinness journey, but fibro caugh up with me and I can't keep my head straight and my eyes open. I was able to write some gibberish on Hive, nothing too elaborate, but here is different and I don't want to do a lousy job, so, I'll go to bed now, and tomorrow I'll be here again. God bless you guys, and don't forget me!
Record Guinness-Day 2 Definitely, my fibro caught up with me. Maybe the adrenaline rush I've felt for the past few days gave me the necessary boost to endure all the hard moments related to the massive event we were part of. But now back home, chilling out and getting back to my routine, my fibro struck back and I feel like crap, only physically, because I'm still excited and happy. Also, today is my little sister's birthday so, another reason to celebrate. Day 2. We got up…
Hello all! Another day went by and a busy one it's what it was. I have two dear friends down with Covid and me and some others are gathering funds an buying medicine for them. So, I'm broke and tired but for the best reasons, because I want them to go through this. So, as soon as I can, I'll be over here again. Please, keep us in your prayers! PS: This had nothing to do with the Guinness Event. They tested negative before going but had all the symptoms and had to stay here.
Record Guinness Official Attempt-Day 3 As I was thinking and putting my ideas in order, I got a feeling I didn't remembered: **The first time I got to travel.** I was 12 when I got the opportunity of going to a different country and the fear I had was out of this world. It was a good fear though, fear mixed with excitement, because from that moment on my life wasn't going to be the same anymore. I can only imagine, but I bet that's the feeling many of the kids who were part…
A Happy Birthday Indeed-Day 4 Soon I'll be able to leave you alone with the Guinness Record business, I know I've been talking too much about it and it can be tiresome for people to hear, in this case, read, someone talking about the same thing over and over again. But I haven't told you about my birthday, how it went, how was the journey back, what happened, why and when. So today, I'll tell you all about it and I'll put to rest the subject (**until we get the results…
It's Official! Venezuela holds the Record Guinness for the World's Largest Orchestra!! We are beyond words right now, the excitement is too great. Our music spoke for us and we gave our country a wonderful gift of hope and joy. Also, we gave testimony that nothing is impossible, even in the darkest hour, humans can shine and bring light to others. Our country is still great and this is proof that no matter what, we can be better than our petty differences and unite on a…
Celebrating with a Song Wheel I can jump, I can shout, I'm so happy that I can't fit within my own body 🎊🎊🎊 I already told you beautiful people of read.cash that Venezuela officially holds the **Guinness Record for the World's Largest Orchestra**. Ups, I said it again! I want to celebrate so bad, but I can't I have work to do and a not so glorious body haha, so, I have to wait until I'm free from work to be able to join my group and celebrate properly. Nevertheless, that…
Be your own Leading Character My dad always told me **"Be the protagonist of your own story"**. Wise words and always came at times when I was heartbroken or simply because my dad was curious as to why I wouldn't settle for anybody. One time I even dared to say **"I won't be jumping from bed to bed until I find Mr. Right"**. This is because sadly we live in a world where you have to be tested first in the sack and then boys decide if you're worthwhile, well, at least in my…
I am happy! **I** am happy. I'm happy with who I am, I'm happy with where I'm at, what I've accomplished. I'm happy with my skills, with my friends, with my family. I'm happy to be here, I'm just happy. **A**lmost every person on earth questions at least once a day if they are happy. I do too. It's natural to question our lives, where we're heading, what tomorrow holds for us, but have you asked yourself how much time we lose on such an endeavor?. The sheer volume of…
Sing a Song, Bust a Move! Hello all! It's time for more songs!! Again, I have nothing to write, I'm so so tired from rehearsal and from walking 4km back and forth. Of course, the road was fun, I wasn't alone, and on that matter, I don't mind the walk and the time of rehearsal, when you are having fun it's no trouble at all. Now, I don't like doing things halfway, but I do not have the energy to come up with something too elaborated, so, Google it is, again, and I remembered…
Food Journal: Teque Teque Tequeños! Hello and good evening to all of you dear friends! ***I have a question: when you crave food, what it's your first option?*** ***Do you even have one, or several?*** Well, that was two questions, sorry! I have several options when it comes to crave food because I love food, and even if we didn't have much growing up, and at the present time, we always ate good, and were able to taste delicious things. One of the was the famous and well…
Traveling to a not so distant memory. Hello dear friends of Read. Cash! How was your day?? Me? I've had a hard long day. Rehearsal was moved to much earlier and that screwed up my whole schedule for today. To add to this wonderful mixture, my fibro is really getting on my nerves, the pain is everywhere and I'm getting pissed off by it. But hey, this girl's gotta work, this girl's gotta eat. So I left early to my rehearsal, meet up some friends to go all together, and upon…
Food Journal: BBQ Wings, healthy style. Well Hello!! **How are you today?** I hope you are fine, happy and healthy. I want to send big hugs to @JonicaBradley and hope for a speedy recovery, my thoughts and prayers are with you. It's early but I won't be able to do any writing later in the day, I have a concert and I know what time I have to be there, but I don't know when I'll be back home from it. I feel like an 18 wheeler truck ran over me several times, my neck is killing…
Santa Claus is Coming to Town! Hello Hello! Happy and Blessed Weekend to everyone!! I'll make a short article today, well, short is an understatement, it will have many pictures and not a lot of text. Why? Well, for one thing, I'm not feeling well today, I'm exhausted and in a lot of pain, and with **Fibro Fog**, so, it's hard to concentrate and focus on any elaborated content. Yes, I have given this excuse for some time now, but, this is my life. Because of Fibromialgya the…
More ghosts from the past. Halloween is over!! Why is it then that I have ghosts lurking?? Hello dear friends! Sunday is almost over in my country and for most of you is already Monday. **How is it?** I hope you all had a beautiful weekend. Today, God's day, I wasn't going to write anything, but, something happened and I have to write about it! I have told you **(I think)** that I don't have much luck when it comes to relationships, the day God delivered that gift I…
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