You think you're "safe" in April?

¿Ya pasó lo peor? Hah! Think again, this is New England, the land of unpredictability. You think April 5th is Springtime? Hah! Old man Winter has other ideas....it's a winter wonderland today. It's thirty degrees, we have three inches of wet, heavy snow to deal with. This Sunday is Easter. How will the Easter Bunny hop through all this wet snow? Will the snow still be here on Sunday? Who knows? Is this Global Warming? Who knows? We are at the mercy of the elements, the whims of the gods, the chaos of the Universe........But wait! Is the Universe chaotic....really? Parece que hay caos, pero la verdad de las cosas puede ser totalmente distinta. "Things are not what they seem," has been said on more than one occasion. Hmmmmm.

Ayer estaba leyendo sobre nuestro sistema solar, es tan curioso, todas las planetas son increíblemente distintos a nuestro planeta, la Tierra. Venus tiene unas temperaturas tan calientes que pueden derretir el metal, ninguna vida podría sobrevivir allá. Marte, al contrario, es el extremo opuesto, o sea, sumamente frío, no puede tener agua en una forma líquida. Los días de los planetas varían tanto, algunos son rápiditos, otros se tardan mucho más que un día en la Tierra. Imagine a day with more than 24 hours....oh, what we could accomplish! Our days seem to go faster and faster. But that's not the point here. The point is, why and how did this happen? Why is it that our Earth is the only planet in this solar system that can sustain life? And why are we destroying it? There's no other planet we can escape to if this one gets ruined. We couldn't even live on our moon.

We are spinning in space and yet we remain in the same orbit around the sun. All of the planets are moving constantly in their orbits and miraculously they don't crash into each other or spin off into outer space or decide to do something else. Nosotros vemos las mismas estrellas que veían nuestros ancestros....qué interesante. Tomaban el mismo agua, repiraban el mismo aire que nosotros, se calentaban con el mismo Sol, caminaban en la misma Tierra. Tal vez mis lágrimas sean las mismas que lloraban mis ancestros...well, you can get a little crazy thinking about all of this. It just makes me realize how connected we all are.

The sun has been peeking through the thick layer of clouds out there. I am being pulled to go outside and have a closer look. I miss my glorious Sun, hace mucho que no ha aparecido acá. Mi bello Sol, allí está llamándome........ya voy, ya voy mi querido Sol.

Otra vez mi laberinto está tapado de nieve...ay, mejor me río, ¿qué más puedo hacer?

My snow may be in your water glass someday.

Think about it.

I am you.

You are me.

Soy Lorena.
4/5/07