HAWANSUYO

              Jehová, no se ha envanecido mi corazón, ni mis ojos se enaltecieron; Ni anduve en grandezas, ni en cosas demasiado sublimes para mí.   (Salmo 131:1)     Llevé una vida sencilla como la madera busqué flores en el campo con las cuales adorné mis pies  para florecer canté, para echar raíces tomé otro camino.     Caminé con los arroyos  y broté arroyos de oración en mí abracé a mis hermanos y hermanas que me consolaron sin dejarme envanecer.     Así canté en la noche:   Ante tus ojos la piedra es suave Ante tus ojos es dura el agua Ante tus ojos un destello es la vida   pero lenta es la vida del alma.     Adán avanzaba y encontraba las palabras como capullos envueltos sobre sí mismos.   Las encontraba en los caquis madurando y en las nubes.   Así encontrarás como él florecientes las palabras sembradas por Dios.     Mi corazón sea tu casa limpia escuchand...

After graduating from high school, I attended a small liberal arts college for three semesters before becoming a college dropout. I enjoyed reading books and discussing ideas, but there was something depressing about college life; it felt too much like high school. I thought college would be a Platonic dialogue with sex, drugs and revolution. Instead of Socrates, I found the same kids there I knew in high school. They followed me to college with new names and new faces. After dropping out of college, I worked in factories for the next few months. I got a job in the Levkowitz Leather Factory. I worked as a floor boy, carting the pieces of leather cut on the sixth floor down to the second floor, where they were made into camera cases. One of the cutters asked me if I had graduated from high school.  When I told her I had, she laughed and said, “Then what are you doing here?” I was not sure what I was doing at the Levkowitz Leather Factory, so I told my supervisor I would be leav...