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Spanish
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LETTER
FROM A GRAIN OF SAND
Hello friends!
I am a tiny
grain of sand, bathed by the sea spray created by the waves of
the Caribbean Sea. I live in a marvellous place where every morning
at sunrise, I listen to the tremulous murmur of flying fish shooting
out of the transparent sea water. Many birds inhabit this place,
particularly the small, delicate and dark sea swallows which fly
constantly in search of food.
The sea is
sweet and beautiful, but it can also be cruel and can become angry
all of a sudden. Perhaps you may be surprised at my referring
to the sea in Spanish as if it were feminine. This is the way
we, those that love her, refer to the sea. I consider her as belonging
to the feminine gender and as someone who concedes or denies big
favours, and if she does perverse deeds it is because she cannot
help it.
My Mom and
Dad are also sand grains, already hundreds of thousands of years
old, since in this beach toxic substances that could have degraded
us have never been used. Those persons who visit us are sorry
to tread on us, which explains their walking warily and their
not leaving food leftovers behind. We are always tended by children
and the young of the local beach community, who remove the plant
litter that comes out of the sea.
Through this
letter I wish to express my solidarity with all the suffering
grains and tiny grains of sand in this world, and especially
so those of the coasts of Galicia in Spain who are bearing the
effects of an oil spill.
I wish to
invite you all to my unpolluted world. You can find me at the
following e-mail address: letstakecare@everybody.world
. I will receive you with pleasure. I now say goodbye with a great
marine salutation, since it is the time to go to listen to the
classes given by the snail on how to recycle the trash left daily
on the coasts by humans, in order that this, my small paradise,
may remain clean and pure and that I may be proud to live in my
blue planet, helping to make it liveable for others too.
I am looking
forward to your messages. I will give you my address later, because
it is difficult, very difficult to understand, since unfortunately
you must find your way through the paths of dreams.
With best
wishes
The
happy tiny grain of sand
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A question arises for reactions,
Do
such place exist?
Some ideas
have been taken from Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man and
the Sea"
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