domingo, 29 de diciembre de 2024
Comentando: La alegría duró 13 días.
Comentando: MI CANAL EN YOUTUBE
MI CANAL EN YOUTUBE
La alegría duró 13 días.
Mia Isabella, una nena que proporciona alegría, derroche de amor, ternura, y es capaz de llenar los espacios vacíos en cualquier lugar que ella se encuentre.
Así fué en nuestro pequeño apartamento, siempre tan lleno de soledad nuestra, de Nilita y mía, ya acostumbrados a vivir así en "La Gran Manzana", lejos de familiares y amigos de antaño, con pocas -o ninguna- visitas, saliendo en pocas ocasiones.
Pero vino a pasar unos días con nosotros este pequeño torbellino, tan llena de vida, de alegría, de ocurrencias propias de su edad en la que ha empezado a caminar, y ¡sálvese quien pueda! a tocar todo lo que esté a su alcance, a investigar, a averiguar para qué sirve esto o lo otro, a abrir todo lo que esté cerrado.
Y sus padres: "Isabella, no toques... deja eso allí... cuidado te aplastas los dedos..." y en fin, todo cuanto podían detenerla.
A mí, particularmente, me causaba mucha risa verla caminar de un lado a otro buscando que tocar, que agarrar, que tumbar. Y les decía a sus padres: "Déjenla, no pasa nada, está en la edad de la investigación. Los niños a esa edad y cuando recién empiezan a caminar, tienen gran curiosidad por todo".
De otro lado, es una nenita maravillosa, no molesta, no llora por gusto, no hace berrinches; todo lo contrario, es puro amor.
Pegó con Nilita mayormente. Tiene su explicación: ella es una mujer llena de ternura, capaz de dar amor por toneladas, y se las dió a Mia Isabella, y ella, a su vez, devolvió ese amor incondicional innato en los niños. Daba gusto verlas juntas, puros arrumacos, besitos, apapaches, risas...
En fin, que este humilde hogar de los Argudo Murillo se llenó de alegría, de amor, de ternura infinita por unos días.
Disfrutamos también de la linda compañía de nuestra "Negrita" Ginger y su esposo Ricardo, dichosos padres de la preciosa Mia Isabella.
Si antes de su venida ya la amábamos, hoy la amamos mucho más y la extrañaremos cada día.
New York City, diciembre 29 de 2024
jueves, 25 de julio de 2024
TREINTA Y CUATRO AÑOS
Durante un paseo a la pequeña isla en Manhattan (Little Island) en el Hudson River.
Fué en aquél inolvidable dia 25 de Julio de 1990, en la Explanada del Auditorio de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Guayaquil, en el momento que el público abandonaba la sala luego de la Clausura del Festival Internacional de Teatro que se realizó en Homenaje a la Fundación de Guayaquil.
Entre la masa humana que salía, pudimos notar a Rodrigo, alumno de Teatro nuestro, de Franco Galecio y mío, acompañado de dos señoras muy sonrientes.
Nos acercamos a saludar muy amablemente. Sólo recuerdo la voz de Rodrigo diciendo "Nilita, él es Iván, mi profesor de teatro; Iván, ella es Nilita, mi tía".
Tras una de mis tonterías habituales, le gasté una broma a la tía, quien respondió con cierta indignación y abriendo sus enormes y bellos ojos negros, poniéndome en mi sitio.
Me lo merecía por zoquete. ¿A quién se le ocurre hacer bromas a una persona que se está conociendo en ese momento? A mí, por supuesto. Entre la gente de teatro somos así, bromistas, dicharacheros, dizque "simpáticos", pero... no todo el mundo tiene por qué saber que somos así, medio locos.
Como es lógico, me desbarató, y me deshice en alhagos y disculpas.
La amiga, una colega Ginecóloga de Nilita sonreía nerviosamente, pero cuando todo el mal rato pasó, todos reíamos francamente.
Quedamos en vernos en otro momento, en visitarnos, a fin de consolidar esta nueva amistad, la que había nacido por "culpa" del teatro y gracias a él, porque resulta que a Nilita y su amiga les encantaba el teatro, y yo era un teatrero, así que, al menos, había algo en común.
¡Viva el teatro, carajo!
Y esos ojazos negros, que me embrujaron...
New York, Julio 25, 2024
Leonardo (Ivan) Argudo.
jueves, 27 de junio de 2024
DOROTHY MULLER
DOROTHY MULLER
She has been an extraordinary woman who lived a full, happy life, full of the love of her children, grandchildren, nephews, children-in-law, lifelong friends, people who had the joy of knowing her, treating her and coming to love her like everyone else. They surrounded her.
Of Irish ancestry, she was born in this country, the United States of America, nearly ninety years ago, which she would have turned next August. She preferred to leave for the Eternal Peace of the Infinite before fulfilling them. Maybe it was one of her whims, who knew!
She worked a lifetime. She was an example of an honest, tireless life, capable of taking care of herself, facing everything with height and dignity, as only the great women of the world do. Even the separation from her husband stoically overcame her, continuing her productive life without fainting.
Dorothy was a very beautiful woman. In her youth, she could be said to have descended from Olympus, with the authorization of the gods, who allowed her to join mortals to enjoy that incomparable gift. In her later years, she maintained her stately beauty with great dignity.
At a very young age, she met Ernst Muller, of German ancestry, but also born in the United States. They fell in love and got married like any excited young couple. He was a man of Art: actor and theater director, and writer. They lived their love intensely, eventually having six children: Ernst, Pat, Gretchen, July, Patrick and Jane. They, in turn, gave Dorothy beautiful grandchildren, and one of them has even given her a beautiful great-granddaughter. The marriage lasted as long as it had to, they separated, but her life continued forward, with her strengthened and determined not to let herself be defeated by adversity.
Today she has left us full of pain and sadness, but knowing that Dorothy gave everything of herself for her family, that she knew how to be kind, cordial and very loving. All of us, in due time, have received from her her affection and tenderness, as well as the stories of her life that have given us the example to follow.
Rest in Peace, Dorothy. We know that today you will be enjoying a pleasant conversation with that adorable grandson who left before you,
Owen, so beautiful and full of virtues.
Grandmother and Grandson, beings of incalculable value.
New York, July, 2024
Leonardo (Ivan) Argudo.
DOROTHY MULLER
DOROTHY MULLER
She has been an extraordinary woman who lived a full, happy life, full of the love of her children, grandchildren, nephews, children-in-law, lifelong friends, people who had the joy of knowing her, treating her and coming to love her like everyone else. They surrounded her.
Of Irish ancestry, she was born in this country, the United States of America, nearly ninety years ago, which she would have turned next August. She preferred to leave for the Eternal Peace of the Infinite before fulfilling them. Maybe it was one of her whims, who knew!
She worked a lifetime. She was an example of an honest, tireless life, capable of taking care of herself, facing everything with height and dignity, as only the great women of the world do. Even the separation from her husband stoically overcame her, continuing her productive life without fainting.
Dorothy was a very beautiful woman. In her youth, she could be said to have descended from Olympus, with the authorization of the gods, who allowed her to join mortals to enjoy that incomparable gift. In her later years, she maintained her stately beauty with great dignity.
At a very young age, she met Ernst Muller, of German ancestry, but also born in the United States. They fell in love and got married like any excited young couple. He was a man of Art: actor and theater director, and writer. They lived their love intensely, eventually having six children: Ernst, Pat, Gretchen, July, Patrick and Jane. They, in turn, gave Dorothy beautiful grandchildren, and one of them has even given her a beautiful great-granddaughter. The marriage lasted as long as it had to, they separated, but her life continued forward, with her strengthened and determined not to let herself be defeated by adversity.
Today she has left us full of pain and sadness, but knowing that Dorothy gave everything of herself for her family, that she knew how to be kind, cordial and very loving. All of us, in due time, have received from her her affection and tenderness, as well as the stories of her life that have given us the example to follow.
Rest in Peace, Dorothy. We know that today you will be enjoying a pleasant conversation with that adorable grandson who left before you,
Owen, so beautiful and full of virtues.
Grandmother and Grandson, beings of incalculable value.
New York, July, 2024
Leonardo (Ivan) Argudo.
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