Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Meanwhile..

While the United States was busy voting Barack Obama back in to office (yay!) Spain was also having a politically important moment.  Yesterday Spain's Constitutional Court voted to uphold the legality of gay marriage, making it the 3rd country in the world to completely legalize gay marriage.  According to this article, there have been 22,000 gay marriages performed in Spain since the original ruling in 2005.

Sometimes it feels like the United States is way behind on social issues; it's nice to know that the rest of the world at least is moving forward.  Maybe we'll somehow be dragged along eventually, too.

Friday, November 2, 2012

En clase

Proverbios y cantares: XXIX

     Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino, y nada más;
caminante, no hay camino:
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino,
sino estelas en la mar.

Antonio Machado

Leímos este poema en mi clase de literatura esta semana, y me encantó.