Sunday, May 7, 2017

Which Reminds Me

"With unbreakable faith in the path of progress it endeavors to follow, to follow..." (a line from the Salvadoran national anthem.)

Yes, I suppose that you could also translate "el camino" as the "way," although a bit of a stretch from the "path" or the "road."

Yes, all these poems sound so cool about having to make your own way through the sea because there is no way, only stars in the sea. But actually there is a way, although probably not the way that you wanted. It is a hard way, a way of pain and death, of suffering, of going against the mob. We are against the mafia. Jesus said: "Take up your cross and follow me." Jesus took the high road and he calls us to do the same. Although we may fall short at times, the least we can do is keep our records in better order than that. Yes, how true. And you call this progress? But I digress.