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“Everything Will Happen” sang Matt Monro

Here I am — until a few months ago an agile and vigorous “dirty old man,” abruptly propelled into the sad transformation of an ailing elder.

It’s as if this country, which gradually decided not to produce anything and to make everything disappear, generates more detainees every day

It is hard to think from pessimism, I know; most people only want to be told everything they wish to hear.

Between the communists who have Cuba kidnapped and the Trumpists who think the solution is to further punish the people, anyone gets fed up.

Through social media I learned that the brave young people from the project “El 4tico” (the little room) have been detained.

Over the decades we’ve known only losses. What more is left for us, what other terrible things are still to come?

I tell myself: If there were people who survived those Nazi concentration camps, it means that I can survive my Caribbean communist camp.

Miracles don’t arrive surrounded by glowing halos and fireworks; sometimes they come so subtly that we don’t even notice.

A friend of my mother’s stopped by the house and kindly shared some multivitamin supplements with her.

The workday begins with a scene that is repeated daily: mountains of accumulated garbage on the corners, sidewalks and yards…