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Another Fourth

By Camilo Posted on July 5, 2013 Posted in Chronicles from The Island, Uncategorized No Comments

These days that handle heat and patriotism, mixed with bubbles, street carnivals and overpriced flags made in China, are also reminders of subtler emotions, deeds and promises: we all read the books, and can almost TH understand the meaning and …

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On brain cells and attention spans

By Camilo Posted on June 24, 2008 Posted in Career, Chronicles from The Island 2 Comments

Why is it that work becomes so boring after a while? Why projects remains exciting, no matter how exhausting and demanding? Why is the thrill of a deadline better than the monotonous drone of the routine meeting and the impossible …

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Tagged with: brain, Career

Do not go gentle into the good night

By Camilo Posted on June 26, 2007 Posted in Chronicles from The Island 2 Comments

For no particular reason, Dylan Thomas’ Do not go gentle into the good night: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. …

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An empty space

By Camilo Posted on May 15, 2007 Posted in Chronicles from The Island 3 Comments

Loneliness settles unbid, and my list grows longer. My life pretends to be easy, When the only obligation I want escapes me. What to do? Behave impeccably!

On not blogging

By Camilo Posted on October 6, 2006 Posted in Chronicles from The Island No Comments

I have achieved the dubious distinction of not writing but once a month! What an honor! As Gaiman says, in a magnificent advocacy of recursion, the best description of the story is the story itself, for it then becomes the …

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Dead blogging

By Camilo Posted on August 19, 2006 Posted in Blogging, Chronicles from The Island No Comments

I finally realized why is it that blogging is such a boring, depressing activity as of lately. It is as fun as going to the cemetery to converse with old friends, and precisely for the same reasons. When I first …

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Eccentric

By Camilo Posted on July 18, 2006 Posted in Chronicles from The Island No Comments

Merlin asks for eccentricities, all those little quirks that made us different from the people around us. That is a travel through a period of self-discovery and self-consciousness: we were inventing our persona. In high school, and for a while …

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Advice

By Camilo Posted on January 1, 2006 Posted in Chronicles from The Island No Comments

New year, and with it, thought and introspection. This, from Matt Howie, on advice and getting old: maybe life isn’t a journey to uncover new truths in far off places, but instead to simply gain enough to experience to understand …

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Storyboard

By Camilo Posted on November 21, 2005 Posted in Chronicles from The Island, Health, Life No Comments

Create the storyboard to your life, create the possibilities, the dreams, the travels, the knowledge: Avi Solomon’s advice is as simple as that, to make our relationship with the future we create as compelling and easy to perceive as the …

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Upside of WS

By Camilo Posted on October 27, 2005 Posted in Chronicles from The Island 2 Comments

Here in WS the great advantage is that I am surrounded by people that know me. So, yes, it is very comfortable. The downside is that I am already missing somebody else that lives in the 510 area code. Cool, …

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