In the mix is the essence of the sounds which surround us

I've stopped for a moment and I've started thinking of the "open fronts" I manage and I haven't still finished in this blog. On one hand, the course of fasile, which I thought would be given by means of pleasant weekly lessons; but I left it there, by the presentation post, although I actually have prepared four or five lessons in word format that I want to transform into flash in order to add the pronunciation (since leaving apart braille and signs language -which certainly are adaptations of other languages-, what is a language if it's not spoken?). I still have two or three books and cds to be commented and some movies I've seen and I want to review (either because I've seen them at the cinema, or because I like them a lot after seeing them at home); on another hand, I'd like to keep adding the rest of the movies when I see them, including a very little comment or evaluation. And, of course, there's the political issue... how you can imagine, I'm not very pleased with the current situation that doesn't go quiet in the last weeks... but, well, let's wait for the end and then we'll get involved :) On the other hand, I also have prepared a long post about a topic that will set tongues wagging.
If I haven't be able to carry on with all of this, it's been because lately I haven't real time enough to do it. Between finishing my practices, giving classes to my pupils, going to the language school and, damn it, going out from time to time (but coming back home soon), it's almost impossible to me to keep my blog updated. Mea culpa, for not well-organizing my things. To excuse myself, and as an apology, I want to transcribe a post I must have published on day 6th or 7th of this month. A sincere comment that I left unfinished and today I've completed.

This year, Chistmas time at home has been practically "non-denominational". And I'm very glad. No decoration, no Christmas tree, and of course no Christmas carols on the stereo. Even my mother, who is the only one that goes to celebrate mass at church, hasn't gone to church on the important dates: no Christmas Eve's Mass, no Christmas Day's Mass, no Epiphany's Mass. The only religious thing in sight at home are some littles figures of a Nativity scene that my brother made when he was 8 or 10, painted with changed colours, which gives them a funny touch and hardly "canonical". Everything else, all the typical traditions and several celebrations of this period have been pagan: the draw of the Chirstmas Lottery -miiiileuros (one thousand euros)- set as background music the morning of December 22nd, a copious dinner with my cousins on 24, another copious Spanish lunch on 31st, the Grapes of Luck on New Year's Eve with my other cousins, a copious lunch on January 5th for my brother's birthday, and the gifts -nothing special- and the Three Wisemen's "Roscón" for breakfast on 6th. Maybe some think this Quizá a algunos esta escasez de "Christmas signs" les pueda dar a entender que my family is sad or apathy reigns inside it. Nothing at all. In my house, we don't need to keep up appearances, we don't need a fake Christmas made of brillantina y matasuegras, we've got each others and we love each others too; that's what my family and I nos importa, y esa es la mayor alegría y la mayor celebración que se puede tener. And that's why I'm so glas over all, because we don't need false adornos to hide carencias, something that sadly, I've realized, happens in so many -so called- homes. From deep in my heart I wish you'll get lucky for feeling, as minimum, the quarter of the happiness I feel by having this family that I love so much, though I usually don't demonstrate it very much. ¡Lots of kisses!

January 7th 2006