Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The benefits of beet root


The benefits of beet root
October 30, 2013


I just found two wonderful sites about the benefits of beet root



No es novedad que los maratonistas llevan una dieta estricta cuando se acerca una carrera. Lo que no se sabía, hasta ahora, es que hay ciertos alimentos que pueden ayudar a salir campeones.
Un estudio realizado por investigadores de la Universidad Saint Louis, publicado en el Journal de la Academia de Nutrición y Dietética de los Estados Unidos, comprobó que comer remolacha cocida “mejora intensamente el desempeño al correr”. 
La clave, según el estudio, estaría en el nitrato, más conocido como “nitrato de sodio” que es usado como endurecedor en carnes, salchichas, tocino y embutidos. 
Alrededor del 70% del nitrato que consumimos proviene de vegetales como coliflor, espinaca, repollo, brócoli y vegetales de raíz como las remolachas. 
Para el estudio, los investigadores analizaron a 11 corredores “moderados” mientras corrieron una carrera en una cinta de 5 kilómetros.
Después de una carrera, le dieron a los voluntarios placebo, antes de la otra carrera les dieron 7 onzas (200 gramos) de remolacha cocida (que contiene aproximadamente 500 mg de nitrato). 
Después de comer remolacha los corredores corrieron un 3% más rápido y superaron en 41 segundos su propio tiempo récord.
Según el estudio, para superar sus propias marcas, los corredores deberían consumir 7 onzas (200 gramos) de raíz de remolacha cocida o su equivalente en nitrato de otros vegetales 60 minutos antes de las carreras. 
No sólo para obtener mayor velocidad
El vocero de la Academia de Nutrición y Dietética, Dr. Joy Dubos, aclara que “la nutrición es algo que los atletas deben considerar durante todo el día”. 
“Antes de una mañana de entrenamiento, por ejemplo, se puede comer un desayuno ligero o un pequeño snack como cereales con leche descremada, granos enteros con manteca de maní, huevos con jugo de frutas 100% natural o frutas con yogur bajos en grasas”, sugirió la experta. 
En el caso de las personas que corren a la tarde, se puede comenzar el día con un desayuno con carbohidratos (cereales, granos enteros, yogur y fruta), tener un almuerzo balanceado y reducido en calorías y una cena con proteínas magras. 
¿Es tóxico el nitrato?
Se han atribuido diversos efectos nocivos en el cuerpo humano, sin embargo investigaciones epidemiológicas y toxicológicas no han demostrado algún tipo de vínculo entre el consumo de nitrato y el riesgo de cáncer. 

Saturday, October 26, 2013

God does answer prayers


God does answer prayers
October 26, 2013
By: Gina Yoryet Roman


Today I spent a little time reading Los Mártires Cristeros - Saints of the Cristero Wara group of 25 saints and martyrs from the Mexican Cristero War. The majority of them were Roman Catholic priests who were executed for carrying out their ministry despite the suppression under the anti-clerical laws of Priista Plutarco Elías Calles. 

  • Cristóbal Magallanes Jara (1869-1927)
  • Román Adame Rosales (1859-1928)
  • Rodrigo Aguilar Aleman (1875-1927)
  • Julio Álvarez Mendoza (1866-1927)
  • Luis Batis Sáinz (1870-1926)
  • Agustín Caloca Cortés (1898-1927)
  • Mateo Correa Magallanes (1866-1927)
  • Atilano Cruz Alvarado (1901-1928)
  • Miguel De La Mora (1874-1927)
  • Pedro Esqueda Ramirez (1897-1927)
  • Margarito Flores Garcia (1899-1927)
  • José Isabel Flores Varela (1866-1927)
  • David Galván Bermudes (1882-1915)
  • Salvador Lara Puente (1905-1926)
  • Pedro de Jesús Maldonado (1892–1937)
  • Jesús Méndez Montoya (1880-1928)
  • Manuel Morales (1898-1926)
  • Justino Orona Madrigal (1877-1928)
  • Sabas Reyes Salazar (1879-1927)
  • José María Robles Hurtado (1888-1927)
  • David Roldán Lara (1907-1926)
  • Toribio Romo González (1900-1928)
  • Jenaro Sánchez Delgadillo (1886-1927)
  • Tranquilino Ubiarco Robles (1889-1928)
  • David Uribe Velasco (1888-1927)
  • José Sánchez del Río (1913-1928), This is the most touching death mirrored in the film For Greater Glory

All these martyrs were robbed from their existence because they refused to give up their faith. Their conviction was so strong that deep down, they knew that God always prevails even though they would not live to witness it. Validation of that was Plutarco Elías Calles himself who according to historical reports, he ironically became interested in spirituality. Prior to his death in October 1945, he allegedly stated the following that he “most certainly believed” in a higher power

I have known some individuals who deny themselves to believe in this divine power during their early years and later as adults when everything in life “seems” just fine. When they reach a certain stage, they turn to spirituality as they cannot handle life’s ups and downs. Just like Plutarco Elías Calles, they feel remorse for their wrongdoings and they seek for inner peace. I ponder on how remorseful Elías Calles felt for taking all those lives only because they fought for a good cause. 

All those martyrs stayed faithful to this verse, “Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! Matthew 7:7-11.

They sacrificed their life but in the end, his prayers were answered. Just like those martyrs, we have to keep in mind that prayers are answered at God´s time, not at ours. It reminds me of a special request I’ve been petitioning for every since I was a little girl. Even at times when I’ve drawn apart from the church, I’ve never given up on praying, questioning and wondering why that particular request hasn’t been answered, perhaps those are not his plans for me, maybe it has been manifested to me in many ways but I am oblivious to see it. 

My doubts were assuaged a little while ago after talking to my sister, she reaffirmed that when we talk to God with an open heart, our prayers are acknowledged so I shall keep asking for that aspiration and if it is his will, I shall be given it at his particular time, not at mine. I must keep my faith alive and pray for patience...

God bless!

Friday, October 25, 2013

The flesh and bone ones Do


The flesh and bone ones Do
October 25, 2013
By: Gina Yoryet Roman



Miguel Bose says that they don’t , but I’d have to rebuttal that because everyone is made of flesh and bone, therefore we all have feelings.

From a very early age on, girls and boys are raised very differently, at least in México and other Latin American countries. Today while at my doctor’s office we discussed the patterns society takes towards boys and girls. Since we are toddlers women are given the ‘ok’ to cry at under any circumstances, when we fall, when we want something, when we miss our parents, when we are not ‘cute,’ when we like a boy but he doesn’t reciprocate, when other girls are catty. later as teenagers, every time of the month, when we are angry, when we get our heart broken, when something doesn’t go well at work, when we are depressed, angry, irritated, frustrated, when we are having a bad hair day, later when we reproduce, when our children are not complying to the rules, because we gained too much weight, because we are not good enough to society due to our ‘full time’ job as moms, or for numerous reasons, like the sprite commercial, ‘Las Mujeres lloran,’ or ‘Por que las mujeres lloran por todo.’

According to Octavio Paz’ ‘Mexican Masks,’ women are regarded as the weak sex without a voice of our own who are always concealed behind the shadow of men and no more. As much as some females may fight for feminism, there are particular tasks that women don’t dare get into or are not willing to do just yet, I mean, getting down and dirty is ‘for boys.’

On the other hand, men are considered ‘weak’ when/if they show any sign of emotion. Under the same scenarios as a girl, they are obligated to absorb their feelings to avoid looking or sounding feeble. 

Not a single woman wants to witness the men in her life crying or being more sensitive and emotional than her. I do counterclaim that shedding a few tears here and there, are proof that we are all flesh and bone and that’s what makes us human. I rather be with a man who expresses his feelings because our bond would be stronger. Men whose soul is hard to pierce, fear who they are for a number of reasons and they end up repressing their emotions. For instance, one of the most important men in my existence sheltered himself behind an iron mask all his life. He deeply cared about his loved ones in his own peculiar way but he taught me to NEVER under ANY circumstances cry or mirror any emotions to society whatsoever because that is/was a sign of weakness.

“Whenever something goes wrong and you break down, do it behind the four walls of your privacy, once you have let it all out, you go out there and confront the world with an intact “YOU” and you will prevail.”

I turned a blind eye to that priceless advice, subdued to my emotions, I literally became a nonstop weeping Madgalena (Mary Magdalene, original Greek  Μαρία ἡ Μαγδαληνή), or Mary of Magdala and sometimes The Magdalene, is a religious figure in Christianity. She has been called the second-most important woman int he New Testament after Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary Magdalene traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She was present at Jesus' two most important moments: the crucifixion and the resurrection. Within the four Gospels, the oldest historical record mentioning her name, she is named at least 12 times, more than most of the apostles. The Gospel references describe her as courageous, brave enough to stand by Jesus in his hours of suffering, death and beyond.

Since the last three years I have become more serene, content, comfortable in my own skin despite all the physical and emotional hardships throughout my journey. It was a long time coming but I told a friend of mine the other day, “true, we may not be able to control some predicaments, we definitely cannot force anyone else to love us either, but I accept obstruent obstables I have encountered because that’s what makes me human. I may never be able to decipher all the mysteries lying behind and ahead but I no longer consider them tragic, I’ve purged my mind, body and soul, and let go of a lot of pain and it is very liberating, as if I had just taken five hundreds pounds off my shoulders. 

I do prefer to be around men and beings who are transparent, a little sensitive, emotional and forgiving, someone who's got an open heart, someone who welcomes ups and downs and that who's set himself free from all prior disappointments  and wants to embrace love once again without looking back. Like Tina Turner stated, “Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when  you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. 

When I sought for ‘Me and let go of the weeping woman’ I regained the ‘Me,’ the person who will be close to me all my life. 


The flesh and bone ones (men) Do cry!


Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Sometimes

Sometimes
October 23rd, 2013


Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. if you
are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down -
get rid of it.
Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity,
your true self comes out.

-Tina Turner


The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation
with an expectation that they make it work or make it better.

- Barbara Pletcher


To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another - that is surely
the basic instict...! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to
take this life for what it is!

- Barbara Kingsolver


When you are trying to motivate yourself, appreciate the fact that you're
even thinking about making a change. And as you move forward, allow
yourself to be good enough.

- Alice Domar


You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -
pleasantly, smiling, non-apologetically - to say 'no' to other things. And the
way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside.

- Stephen Covey


Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially
the ones in your own head.

- Meryl Streep

Monday, October 21, 2013

Niños indígenas triqui triunfan en mundial de minibásquet

Niños indígenas triqui triunfan en mundial de minibásquet
October 22, 2013


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Hasta mediados del 2010 eran sólo unos chiquillos asustados por los asesinatos en la región más violenta
Nada más se quitaron los tenis y comenzaron a encestar, o más bien dicho, a volar. Un partido tras otro, la selección de niños indígenas triquis se hicieron de siete victorias y el título de campeones del IV Festival Mundial de Mini-Baloncesto, que se llevó a cabo en Argentina del jueves 10 hasta el 14 de octubre.
El triunfo del equipo triqui durante el último partido este domingo no es poca cosa si se toma en cuenta que juegan descalzos, y hasta mediados del 2010 eran sólo unos chiquillos asustados por los asesinatos en la región más violenta y pobre del estado de Oaxaca donde de un tirón se pueden llevar entre las balas hasta 30 personas, como ocurrió en San Juan Copala.
Por aquellos días, los chicos de entre seis y nueve años comenzaban a integrar su primer equipo en el poblado de Río Venado, de unos 2,000 habitantes, con ayuda del profesor deportivo Sergio Zúñiga, oriundo del Distrito Federal, cuando mataron a uno de los líderes de la región que los apoyaba.
Heriberto Pazos, del Movimiento de Unificación de Lucha Triqui, una organización fundada en los 1980s para presionar al gobierno a dar apoyo contra la pobreza, fue emboscado por dos motociclistas desconocidos, pero ya los pequeños basquetbolistas estaban encarrerados sin zapatos.
Descubrieron que los tenis les estorbaban cuando al llegar a su primer torneo nacional en Aguascalientes, hace tres años, simplemente no atinaban ninguna pelota en el aro y sus movimientos eran torpes, tiesos, sin gracia. Ellos están acostumbrados a hacer su vida descalzos.
El entrenador pidió permiso a los organizadores para que los niños jugaran “a raíz”, y así comenzaron a crecer.
El 2013 ha sido su año. En marzo se coronaron campeones en el Youth Basquetboll of América (YBOA) en Monterrey. De ahí saltaron a la YBOA que se celebró en julio en Orlando, donde quedaron en segundo sitio, antes de ganar en el IV Festival Mundial de Mini-Baloncesto en Argentina.
Con este reciente triunfo, siguen imparables para la Copa del Caribe que se llevará a cabo en República Dominicana del 30 de octubre al 5 de noviembre.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

The Perfect Game


October 21st, 2013
By: Gina Yoryet Roman


Last Sunday, October 6, when I approached the little stand (that sells Christ and Saint images and other religious relics), right after mass, my eyes locked onto,  “The Perfect Game,” a 2009 American drama film directed by William Dear, based on the 2008 book of the same name written by W. William Winokur. The film is based on the events leading to the 1957 Little League World Series, which was won by the first team from outside the United States, the Industrial League of Monterrey, Mexico, who defeated the heavily favored U. S. team. Mexican pitcher Angel Macias threw the first, and so far only, perfect game in championship game history.


César Faz (Clifton Collins, Jr.), moves to Monterrey, Mexico after he is let go by the St. Louis Cardinals from his job as a clubhouse attendant. There he meets local children being led by Padre Esteban (Cheech Marin), enjoying baseball; he takes pitcher Ángel Macías (Jake T. Austin), under his wing and brags about his own pitching skills and how he used to coach the Cardinals. Ángel convinces César to help recruit and coach Monterrey's first-ever Little League team. With César's skills and Padre Esteban's support, the boys hone themselves into a competitive team worthy of international competition. At the final game of the World Series of Little League, Monterrey defeated the team of West La Mesa, California 4-0. Enrique Suárez (Jansen Panettiere), hit a grand slam home run, and Ángel Macías pitched a perfect game, a feat that has not since been repeated in Little League World Series history.
When the team arrives in the United States, they are met with racism, a language barrier, and visa troubles. Though the underdogs, the team scores a series of victories that endear them to the media, and new fans. They befriend a sports reporter, Frankie (Emilie de Ravin), and the groundskeeper, Cool Papa Bell (Louis Gossett, Jr.), who then assist the boys in reaching the final game.
During the first few minutes of the movie I started dozing off but as the story progressed, I was very awake and alert to all the events of the story. All through the film I realized something that wasn’t apparent when I was first recommended the movie; sports and faith, two key elements in my ABC’s.
As described on Wikipedia, when the little boys arrive to the United States, not only did they have to face racism, discrimination, language barrier and visa issues, they are faced with money matters, fatigue, the proper attire to wear. After they are dropped off by the bus on the border of Mexico and the U. S., they lacked the financial or other means to find another form of transportation to get to their first game, so they are forced to walk ten miles! 
Considering that athletes have to be well-rested the prior few days before competing, they lacked that, they were instead exhausted and hungry, yet they overcame that by blindly trusting and following their coach’s commands. Along with the faith and prayers of Padre Esteban,  (Cheech Marin), who served as a motivating drive to Cesar when he came close to giving up due to all the physical, financial and emotional hardship, they proved the entire world that they were worthy of the long coveted prize. 

When one of the little boys was asked, “Aren’t you afraid that your opponents are taller, heavier and stronger?” He replied, “We are going to play them, we are not going to carry them.” Despite being underweight and shorter, they didn’t wimp out at any moment. 
This narrative based on a true story proves that there are many little heroes out there in this world who lack money and opportunities but they aren’t daunted by that. Despite the endless matters lying behind and ahead, they aren’t controlled by that, they are guided by what lies within to reach their goals and to get a hold of their destiny.

I couldn’t help crying as I was reminded of my personal and life stumbling blocks that have hindered some of my plans. There have been many things in the past that I’ve wanted with all my heart and when I am very close to reaching them, for one impeding block or another, they don’t come through. There was a lot of anger and disappointment at that given moment but each time when I am finally able to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I’ve learnt and accepted that perhaps that is not God’s will, that I have to learn to regard at life Through the eyes of God, in spite of my circumstances. 

I must reach out to acceptance because I am the ONLY one who can control my destiny amidst all the daily circumstances. As long as I am alive and opportunities come, I will keep trying...

Reflexions by: GYR, Mea Spirituali Res, March 31, 2013:

“Later in my twenties, I was ready for a new spiritual quest when I moved to Sacramento. As a result, I started going to English mass which I really enjoyed but had a hard time learning the missal but I eventually narrowed down most of it. I never confessed this to anyone but during all or most of my high-intensity season trainings up in the mountains at  Howarth Park in Santa Rosa, on the Sacramento River trail, at Mckinley park, or at the stadium in Sacramento City College, Sacramento State University, or during most of my state meets and competitions, I constantly prayed silently and did a lot of self-talk. Time after time, I asked God to manifest his unconditional love to me by helping me find my (his) way. I asked him to reach out to me not based on my appearance, my intelligence, the color of my skin, my social status, or my  failures but based on the grounds of being another one of his disoriented children who wanted to serve his purpose, yet those talks went ‘unanswered.’ 

I possibly denied myself from sensing and seeing his intense, direct and clear presence.  I kept telling myself, “I have the right attire worthy of a competitive and professional athlete and I’ve done quite well at keeping at a physically fitness level...yet, I long for mental fitness which is as equally important to compete for your glory. If my head is not fully in you, I will always lose. 

All through my life my intuitive self has challenged my faith (and all the other aspects that entail (The Circle of Life), and raised many questions, such as: Why is this happening? Where is God when it hurts? Why doesn’t he doesn’t do something? Why doesn’t he reach out to me when I need him the most? Where is the protection he promised? Why doesn’t he answer prayers and grant me all my requests whenever and however I want them? How can I fathom your presence? How can I unravel your existence? Are you manifested through certain humans, through someone’s voice, through the immaculateness of a child, through a mother's tenderness, through words and music, through the act of love and forgiveness, through an object?”

Reflexions by: GYR continued, September 26, 2013
“I am unaware of, or on denial to fully engage and accept my nature, the only spiritual, emotional and physical sustenance in the midst of any ‘impossible’ obstacle. Help me surrender to your will but more than anything, help me hear and regard life through your eyes. Help me   purify my mind, body and soul all through this quest . Show me how to reach out to you through ups and downs and if/when my heart gets wounded and if I hurt others,  open my soul and give me the right tools to avoid letting my actions speak louder than my words. 

Thank you for letting me witness you earlier today during El Apostolado de la Virgen, and for endowing me with the most valuable gift any human being on this planet could ever ask for...."

Spiritual and mental peace. 
Priceless!!

La Mentira de Mexico


Octavio Paz
October 20, 2013


Una de las virtudes del pueblo inglés es su capacidad para resistir, en plena lucha, las verdades más amargas y las críticas más enconadas. Ahora mismo, mientras Inglaterra se enfrenta a una de las crisis totales de su historia, empeñada en un combate en el que el premio es la vida misma, algunos ingleses no vacilan en denunciar ante sus propios compatriotas y ante el mundo entero los vicios y defectos de su patria, de sus instituciones y de sus hombres. Muchos piensan que esta libertad de espíritu nace del prolongado goce de los derechos democráticos de expresión de las ideas. No lo creo: la democracia facilita esa expresión, la hace posible, pero no la engendra. Ese denodado amor a la verdad, ese valeroso poner el dedo en la llaga del propio cuerpo, nace de algo más profundo que unas instituciones políticas. El valor de los ingleses para decirse las verdades y para resistir que se las digan es el fruto de su prosperidad material, sí, pero también de su salud moral, de su seguridad interior. Muchos pueblos gozan de libertad de expresión pocos la utilizan para algo que no sea mentirse entre ellos, calumniarse y engañarse. La democracia francesa sirvió para engañar al pueblo francés; la libertad de prensa en la época maderista produjo la mentira sangrienta de Huerta. No basta la libertad de expresión; para que nazca el amor a la verdad se necesitan varias condiciones interiores, cierta integridad de espíritu, fortaleza de alma y serenidad de conciencia, hijas de la salud moral, para poder expresar una verdad y para soportar que nuestro vecino la exprese.

La honradez de carácter de los ingleses tiene dos limitaciones: el positivismo y el nacionalismo. Los ingleses aman los hechos, las verdades concretas y sólidas, pero no muestran ninguna simpatía por las abstracciones y las generalizaciones; su amor a la verdad tangible les hace desconfiar de las teorías y de las especulaciones desinteresadas. El nacionalismo también los empobrece; las críticas de los extranjeros no alteran su flema y su insensibilidad frente al clamor de los extraños da la razón, una vez más, a la vieja sentencia: No hay peor sordo que el que no quiere oír. Pero todas estas limitaciones dejan intacto el hecho primordial: los ingleses aman la verdad, aunque ésta sea fragmentaria e inglesa y son capaces de resistirla. ¿Podemos decir nosotros algo semejante?

Algunos historiadores recientes proclaman que nuestra historia es un tejido de mentiras. Es su deber: sólo viven para rectificar a sus maestros o a sus antepasados. Pero no es nada más la historia: ¡nuestra vida diaria sería inexplicable sin la mentira que la alimenta, la hipocresía que la vela y la complicidad de todos los que no nos atrevemos a denunciar nuestra miseria y pequeñez! La mentira inunda la vida mexicana: ficción en nuestra política electoral; engaño en nuestra economía, que sólo produce billetes de banco; mentira en los sistemas educativos; farsa en el movimiento obrero (que todavía no ha logrado vivir sin la ayuda del Estado); mentira otra vez en la política agraria; mentira en las relaciones amorosas; mentira en el pensamiento y en el arte; mentira por todas partes y en todas las almas. Mienten nuestros reaccionarios tanto como nuestros revolucionarios; somos gesto y apariencia y nada, ni siquiera el arte, se enfrenta a su verdad.

La mentira nace de la pobreza física y espiritual, como una compensación; la imaginación nos engaña con torpes fantasías, puesto que la realidad nada nos puede dar. Este engaño acabará con nosotros, porque un pueblo no puede vivir de viento y mentira. Tampoco de esas medioverdades en las que somos pródigos. La media verdad ni siquiera es una mentira: es una mediomentira, un ser híbrido. El miedo a la verdad, que nos lleva a mentirnos cualidades que no poseemos, también exagera nuestros defectos o ve únicamente nuestros vicios: de la hipocresía saltamos al masoquismo: Vasconcelos todo lo ve negro como Orozco: no sé si su pesimismo es un defecto visual o una manera de oponerse al optimismo profesional de los otros. Los dos niegan a nuestros héroes; el resto, los canoniza. Pero ¿por qué hemos de tener ídolos en lugar de héroes, fantasmas en lugar de hombres de carne y hueso? Ni somos el país más rico de la Tierra ni somos la escoria del globo; los indios no tienen la llave del paraíso terrestre ni son inmóviles cactus vivos, ornato del árido paisaje, fondo para el cuadro revolucionario o tema del orador gangoso.

Una verdad a medias es más nociva que una mentira completa. Somos un pueblo triste, pero nadie gasta más que nosotros en las fiestas; somos un pueblo manso, pero todos los días nos matamos; somos un pueblo sobrio, pero todos nos emborrachamos; la mentira nos envuelve y nadie se engaña a sí mismo con tal natural hipocresía, pero tampoco nadie se dice las cosas con tal desnuda desesperación. Este desequilibrio brota de nuestra inseguridad interior. No sé cómo podríamos utilizar esta energía estancada y enfermiza, que ahora sólo sirve para destruirnos, pero creo que necesitamos, ante todo, de la verdad. Pues si la mentira torna fantasma cuanto toca, decir la verdad es empezar a existir verdaderamente. He aquí una de la pocas misiones políticas o públicas de los escritores mexicanos, aunque me temo que muy pocos la verán con simpatía. Prefieren el ejercicio de la mentira, de la verdad prudente o de la media verdad, de la verdad partida o partidista. Verdades de partido: mozas de partido.



Publicado en Novedades, 11 de octubre de 1943. Miscelánea I. Primeros Escritos (Tomo XIII de las Obras Completas), Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Friday, October 18, 2013

YOU can always DO MORE

YOU can always DO MORE
October 18, 2013


1. Strive for progress, not perfection. -Unknown2. 

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it. -Maya Angelou

3. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. -Wayne Gretzky

4. If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying. -Unknown

5. You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. -Ruth E. Renkl

6. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -Mahatma Gandhi

7. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -Norman R. Augustine

8. I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. -George Burns

9. Energy and persistence conquer all things. -Benjamin Franklin

10. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. -Aesop

12. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein

13. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. -Lou Holtz

14. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. -Jim Ryan

15. I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan16.

 Fear is what stops you... courages is what keeps you going. -Unknown

17. The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race. -Unknown

18. The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline. -Steve Smith

19. Just do it.™ -Nike

20. In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself. -Anonymous

21. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -Mark Twain

22. It's not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. -Anonymous

23. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. -Oprah Winfrey

24. It's never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot

25. Clear your mind of can’t. -Samuel Johnson




motivating quotesEach of us are our own greatest inhibitor. And, at the end of the day, if you just get out of your own way and let things come to you, it's amazing what will come to you. 
Laird Hamilton, champion surfer
motivating quotesWe are all accountable for ourselves. Think of yourself as a precious commodity, and then protect your investment each day. 
Monica Brant
motivating quotesThere are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT. There's not such things as life in-between.
Pat Riley
motivating quotesYou can always become better. 
Tiger Woods
motivating quotesAs long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want. 
Mike Tyson

motivating quotesAim for the highest.
Andrew Carnegie
motivating quotesThe reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. 
Walter Percy Chrysler
motivating quotesThere are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. 
Indira Gandhi
motivating quotesThe price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
William Arthur Ward

motivating quotesAlways bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
motivating quotesErrrrbody wanna be a bodybuilder....But don't nobody want to lift heavy aaaazzz weights!
Ronnie Coleman, former Mr. Olympia champion
motivating quotesI think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything. 
Michael Phelps 
motivating quotesBe cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it. 
Mary Lou Retton
motivating quotesBig shots are little shots that kept shooting.
Chistopher Morley
motivating quotesTo give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. 
Steve Prefontaine
motivating quotesI've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
Michael Jordan
motivating quotesKeep telling yourself everyday..."I'm better than I think I can do anything. I'm going to start now for a better life."
Robert Kennedy of Oxygen magazine

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Where does will come from?


Where does will come from?
The Complete Runner’s Day-by-Day
2013 Log
October 14, 2013


Digging in the past, my love for running first developed during my adolescence, if I remember correctly post an accident in which while riding my bicycle in the hustling teensy weensy streets of Santa Rosa California, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) north of San Francisco. It was an early Thursday morning when I decided to pedal to work instead of driving because I wanted to get a workout plus avoid having to look for a parking spot since it was such a pain on the neck. 

I didn’t see anything when all of a sudden I was impacted by a car who was coming out of an apartment complex and neglected to stop and look both sides to make sure there weren’t any pedestrians or bikers. I flew right off my bike and landed on the sidewalk and somehow ironically I ended up intertwined on the bike right on top of me, hurting my back, scratching myself with the pavement after impacting my right side lower back, waist, hip, leg and arm. 

All of my right side was throbbing and burning and as soon as the ambulance came, I went to get some x rays done. At that time I didn’t get the full glimpse of what the big deal was with my back but my mother explained as she pointed out to my contorted spine.  Needless to say, I was on therapy for a couple of months. I can still dwell upon on what my chiropractor told me locking eyes with me, “You won’t ever be able to do any running or anything high impacting because you may hurt your spinal cord again.” I was not going to let anybody set limitations on MY body, therefore, I obediently and rigorously withstood the painful therapy from day one until the end.

Soon after that, I started playing soccer, then training, shortly after, Cross-Country and Track and Field try-outs and competitions.  The rest is all history. Now I wish I had that youth to recover from this never ending hiatus that is robbing me from mental and physical peace...

Will comes from the desire to maximize one’s own potential by competing against our toughest opponent... the person looking right back at us in the mirror...

Will comes from the coveted Fitness, vanity and fun we all long for...

Will comes from the therapeutical and freedom like feeling we experience every time we break a sweat...

Will comes from the desire to make a difference in our lives...

That will has gone stray but I will soon re-encounter and won’t let go until I yield to balance and self-control once again!




Marty Jerome. 
THe Complete Runner’s Day by Day Log 2013 Calendar

Where does it come from, this determination to lace up your running shoes workout after after workout, year after year? There’s a peculiar madness in it - the repetitive punishment and plodding monotony and occasional bitter disappointment. oh sure, you love the results, whether it’s triumph at the finish line or just the glow of good health. Still, almost all runners draw on some wellspring of fortitude that contains at least a little mystery.

Just ask retired dentist Jon Simpson, who lives in Memphis and has run at least one mile every day since August 30, 1971. That’s more than 185,000 miles. The logistics alone would make this feat seemingly impossible. Running when you’re sick or recovering from surgery? (TAKE IT SLOW.) How about when you’re booked for an all-day flight? (Schedule a layover; run in the airport parking lot.) Simpson isn’t alone. The U. S. Running Streak Association counts 286 members who have run every day for at least one year. Six have run every day for more than 40 years. Few could tell you with any clarity WHY THEY DO IT. 

The same is true of mega marathoners. Eugene Defronzo, who lives in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, has logged more than 400. At 73, he’s not the oldest runner to have completed as many. Norm Frank, 78 of Rochester, New York, was poised to break 1,000 marathons before suffering a stroke. He me it to 965. And plenty of younger runners have now crossed the 1,000 mark - which is about 1,300 more miles than the circumference of the earth. Physiologists will tell you that the fixation on the marathon usually hits men and women in middle age when they want to test their abilities before it’s too late. But this doesn’t begin to explain the tenacity in training required to get them to the starting line again and again.

Some people make a different kind of history through their passion for running. Women now make up 41 percent of people who complete marathons in the U. S. but they were virtually absent in 1967. Kathrine Switzer, now 61, entered that year’s Boston Marathon using her gender-neutral initials, K. V. Switzer. At mile two, a race official was so enraged that a woman was running that he tried to rip her number off her. A scuffle ensued. The incident was caught on camera and it made Switzer an instant hero to women everywhere.

She went on to win the 1974 New York City Marathon, while making the inclusion of women in athletics her lifework. She has started and led programs in 27 countries for more than 1 million women. She became a potent force for getting the Olympics to adopt a women’s marathon. It’s no surprise that she was recently inducted into the National Women’s hall of Fame. Her determination to bring equality to athletics takes no leap of imagination. But none of it would have been possible without her elusive and lifelong love for running. 

For some, it’s a love they return in kind. Julius Achon was 12 when rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army abducted him from his home in the northern city Lira in Uganda. He escaped after three months to join his parents and nine siblings who had survived by hiding in the jungle. Inspired by his uncle, John Akii-Bua, who won a gold medal in the 1972 Olympics in the 400-meter hurdles, Achon began running up to 20 miles a day. Then he began to compete. He won an athletic scholarship in 1990 to run and study in Uganda’s capital, Kampala.
In 1994, he won the 1,500 meter World Junior Championship in Portugal, which landed him a scholarship at George Mason University. His racing career thrived in the United States. He won an NCAA title in 1996 (1,500 meters) and competed for Uganda at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, making semifinals both times. He eventually found work as an assistant coach in Portland with Alberto Salazar’s elite Nike’s Oregon Project runners. His annual salary: about $20,000.

On a visit back to Uganda, he went for a run one afternoon and found 11 children sleeping under a bust (at first, he thought they were dead). They were all orphaned, their parents shot by rebels. He took them a mile to his parent’s house, fed them, and began sending them whatever he could spare from his meager salary for food, tuition, and medical care. He eventually founded the Achon Uganda Children’s Fund, which through fundraising has begun work on building an orphan’s clinic.

Some runners find that their motivations change abruptly sometimes for tragic reasons. Lyz Best is a widow of Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania. She spoke with her husband, Jeremy, by phone for nearly 30 minutes as the plane was being hijacked. He was part of the conspiring passengers that planned to overtake the terrorists. Before that fateful day, she said that she’d been an occasional runner, primarily for fitness, vanity and fun. She and Jeremy often ran together in Central Park when they lived in Manhattan, and then in hiking trails behind their house when they moved to the New Jersey suburbs. She described feeling “free and invincible” during those workouts with her husband.

Immediately after the tragedy, her reasons for running began to evolve. At first, training was cathartic. brining her inner peace when nothing else could console her grief. More than a decade later, she found that running still helped her stay balanced, ameliorating the anxiety and depression that continue to linger. But she admits that tears are often mixed with sweat on some of those workouts. In November 2011, she ran the first New York City Marathon along with 21 others who lost a family member on Flight 93. It was her first. Lyz Best, more than many runners, was able to peer through some of the mystery that keeps us all going.

Marty Jerome. 
The Complete Runner’s Day by Day Log 2013 Calendar