Eduardo N. Cordovi Archives

Recounting the Times I’ve Seen

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.

We’re lucky in my neighborhood that our water is guaranteed to arrive regularly every third day, from before nine am until three or four pm.

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.

There seems to be many alternatives for getting paid and that our state of technology is wonderful. But how sad, it’s not like that.

Humans shouldn’t have to sacrifice themselves so ideologies can prevail at the cost of public discomfort.