Eduardo N. Cordovi

This is what it feels like to live a miserable life, even if you’re a resourceful individual with certain skills.

I have always heard it’s good to have an aquarium with tropical fish. It can be an honorable hobby, a pastime with an artistic touch…

Everything we talk about, or plan or experience, revolves around how to subsist, trying to maintain the same status of subsistence…

I’ve already mentioned in my diary posts the gatherings we friends in the neighborhood hold, on any corner.

A cheerful Cha Cha Cha tune called La basura (The garbage) enjoyed immense popularity in Cuba during the fifties and early sixties.

Today I woke up feeling very pensive. Actually, I wake up more like this every day. I grabbed my ration book & went to get my daily bread.

“There is no better place than here” is a phrase that can be as dangerous and subversive as shouting “Down with communism!” on May Day…

Since AI emerged, the praise hasn’t stopped… and it didn’t take long for criticisms to appear in equal profusion.

Many think that “having the use of reason” or saying “since I have had the use of reason” is something that happened at a very early age.