It is November 3. Home Happy Independence Day to all those in Panama and beyond, the compliment and love. I have written these lines, under the poetic melody Ricardo Miró:
Home, Ricardo Miró (fragment).
The country is the memory… Bits of life
wrapped in shreds of love or pain;
Palm noisy, the known music,
the garden and without flowers, leafless, without greenery.
La Patria are the old twisted paths
that the foot, since childhood, relentlessly he toured
where old trees are known
that soul we talk of a time spent.
Instead of these superb golden arrow towers,
Where the sun is tired faint,
Let me old trunk where I wrote a date,
Where I stole a kiss, where I learned to dream.
¡Oh mis old Torres, dear and distant:
I feel nostalgia for your ring!
I have seen many towers, I heard many bells,
but none knew, Mine distant towers!
sing like you; sing and sob.
(… and repeats the Poet:)
The country is the memory… Bits of life
Wrapped in tattered love or pain;
Palm noisy, the known music,
the garden and without flowers, leafless, without greenery.
(End of the fragment)
Friends:
In summary, I can tell you that the country is our memory; all the witnesses to the Panamanian past us whispering fragments, sometimes even unconnected, who we have been, where we have been (a plethora of places sometimes fantastic), who we are; and already standing in the current Crossroads girls Porvenir Homeland voices urge us to decide their fate. The country becomes tangible in the Historical Heritage. Its ruins, buildings, their dead; its objects, his art; all are priceless treasures. Honor the country is to care for and enforcing protection laws. Honor the country is to study and grow with rigorous scientific methodology that knowledge for all. It is to avoid destroying. It is to respect the collective treasure and make it known to the world with pride. It is not the task of a few, but all of us. ¡Oh Patria, so small! The Heritage is not a renewable asset. Your children, natural and voluntary and earnest adoption, not us never give up your protection. May God protect us, Amen.
Regards,
Katti Osorio Ugarte, Ph.D.