MUCHOS NOMBRES

Maria Jose, Francisca, Marina, Martina, Modesta, son los nombres de mi esposa, pero yo la llamo "Cuca" para simplificar.

También la llamo cielo, amor, cielito, chiquitina, o cualquier apelativo cariñoso menos ninguno de sus nombres oficiales
que me parecen demasiado serios.

Hace años la moda entre las clases sociales mas elevadas era poner varios nombres a sus vástagos, y en el caso de mi querida Cuca fue el deseo de complacer a las diversas ramas de la familia el motivo de adjudicar cinco nombres a mi cielo.

No es mi caso, solo tengo uno, y con el tengo mas que suficiente.
Nunca me gustó el nombre que me adjudicaron mis padres, pero con el paso de los años me he ido acostumbrando.

Ventajas de un nombre como el mío hay alguna, o una sola, y es que nunca he coincidido con ningún otro emiliano, lo que me ha permitido ser identificado en cualquier sitio en el que me haya tocado estar.
La escuela, el instituto, el trabajo en diferentes sitios, e incluso en la reducida vida social en el que me he desenvuelto.

Lo de mi esposa no deja de ser irónico, cinco nombres y nadie le llama por alguno de ellos, Cuca, Pepa, Mari Pepa o Cuquita, son los diferentes nombres que utilizan los amigos.

Felicidades a todos aquellos que llevan el nombre de José - Joseph - Giuseppe y así en otros muchos idiomas.

Incluso dicen que hoy es el día del padre, irónico, pues yo creo que siendo padre uno lo es todos los días del año.

Yo soy padre y hoy no me siento mas padre que el resto de los  365 días o incluso todos los días de mi vida hasta que muera.

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ILUSO ACASO

Que se puede esperar de alguien que a mi edad comienza a aprender "Solfeo", algunos pensarán "está majara", otros dirán que "iluso", con lo difícil que tiene que ser y lo mayor que es.

Pues si, estoy majara, soy un iluso, y también soy mayor para lanzarme a aprender algo que es difícil o incomprensible, si no se tiene la ilusión de pasarlo bien, divertirse e incluso aprender si se presta.

Hoy he venido contento de la clase, al fin comienzo a entender un poco, muy poco, pero me produce una gran satisfacción y lo mejor es que me he divertido, lo he pasado muy bien además de vislumbrar la belleza de algo aparentemente arduo o incluso aburrido para algunos.

Tengo un buen profesor, músico y pianista de profesión que hace una clase amena, práctica y divertida.
Muy joven por cierto, al menos si lo comparo conmigo, y no dejo de preguntarme que hace un chico como este, músico, con trabajo en su ciudad de Las Palmas, en un lugar tan inhóspito, duro y deshumanizado como Madrid.

Si amas tu profesión, y el la ama, enseñar puede ser bonito o satisfactorio a veces, pero siempre dependerá de a quien enseñas.

Cuando el alumno es un niño o un joven a quien sus padres le pagan las clases y el profesor o director de la academia tiene que rendir cuentas si el alumno progresa o no aprende, la tarea de enseñar se vuelve mas ardua.

Resultados, progreso, pide quien paga las clases a su hijo o a su pupilo, pero en mi caso nada de esto ocurre, yo voy a pasar un buen rato aprendiendo solfeo e intentando tocar alguna pieza sencilla de piano.

Me paseo y al fin intento comprender una asignatura pendiente, y no solo intento, además me divierto sin exigir resultados de ninguna clase.

Gracias Alberto, es un placer aprender contigo, seguir tus lecciones y sobre todo pasar un buen rato con el "Solfeo"
que es mucho mas bonito y agradable de lo que yo pensaba.

el gatufo

SO MANY YEARS AGO

Many years ago in a place called Spain, lived three very young children who were brothers. 
Two girls and a male who was the boy's mom, is that so much believed having a male in families.
Although there was little pampering, spent downright bad, hunger, deprivation, cold and lack of humor or patience with such misery, the small man who received more love and pampering, as they said their older sisters.

This three children were not told anything, lived the life that vien small always conducive to play and mischief that exasperated her mother who stretched the money to make ends meet and not used to be in good spirits.

The father of these children were born in 1914, First World War, and his little son also was born in 1943, full WWII but in their environment, Spain, world war too was not noticeable. 

After her, much worse after hunger is happening anyway, with war and that the country was isolated with an international blockade have tacitly supported the losers, German forces and their bloody dictator who had previously helped the Spanish dictator to defeat the freely elected government of the Second Republic. 
Spain was a poor country, hungry, repressive, where individual and collective freedoms had been mowed or rennet arracandas after a long civil war that pitted brother against brother, neighbors, family, friends and ended up with more than a million dead in battle and beyond, murdered, massacred anonymously buried by both sides in contention.

After this there was a great repression by the victors, dictatorship, tens of thousands of lives are charging and no one dared to speak, assemble, or create conflicts of any order.
There was no right to strike, assembly, association, or indeed political parties.
The "secret" secret as it was called, polícia requested documentation anywhere else when traveling by train or bus as the control was exaustivo and strict.

The shortage was extreme, hata the point that ration cards were issued for chords commodities with the number of members of the same family.

It is going to the store when news came that a commodity had come, oil , potatoes, sugar, flour, salt, or other vital subsistence supply. 
It also had coal or wood to light the fire and to cook. 
The meat was a luxury product, sparse, and the fish did not come to be regarded as the fleet fishing was gone.
For these crios life seemed pleasant, were children at the end of the day and knew no other thing, at home there was almost nothing, no telephone, no washing machine, no fridge, or any other appliance to help in the housework.
A radio, spare parts, few books inherited from his grandfather and nothing else. very cold in winter and suffocating in summer, as everyone then passed, and if they wanted to cool off in summer slept outdoors, drank a jug of mud and slept nap at noon.
With this it was enough, but not to their parents who had seen better stages.
These three brothers lived on the outskirts of Madrid, in the district of Tetuan of Victories were few privileged, because his father worked all day on two office jobs. 

There was a manual worker, he got up at half past six and was returning to ten at night.
When I got home her children had gone to bed and I was too tired to try to wake them.

Life in the villages or small towns then was much worse because hardly had work to the laborers when the fields were razed and no grain to mow no land to plant.


The black market and hoarding food was the common trend in all places, so that the prevailing dictatorship established a customs or barriers outside populations that prevented traffic or free movement of any food between territories.
These organisms were called "office supplies "and were responsible to monitor, inspect and report abuses in the composition and distribution of commodities.

Milk, wine is aguaban, oils, sugar mixed, did not exist coffee, chicory was ground as a substitute Coffee and families are used to ration bread, sugar, margarine, meat or any food remediera widespread hunger.

For these three children spend life seemed full of adventure, did not know the hardships of life and were part no longing for flash routine life changing for the better because they simply did not know was that.
A better life than they did ?, that nonsense, were almost all day playing in the street after leaving school, and I had a good time imagining they were heroes comics then, "The Warrior Mask" or "Roberto Alcazar and Pedrín" among many others. 
In the infinity of comics that were published entoces which most liked were those of "Feats Battle" but they were very expensive, they would look at them with envy when they saw them at any kiosk neighborhood in the hands of others more older than they crios.

They collected stickers of the films that premiered then and for them it was like film, to get home It was when they returned to the reality of scarcity and bad fumes.

The local cinema was their rock and tried to go at least one day a week sessions for children, where crios thronged the grounds of foot, seat, and they cared that provided them watch a West or be with mouth open watching the homes of Americans in a comedy of then. 

SCHOOLS OF SPAIN IN THE FORTY

There is a small school in front of the house where the three brothers live, is similar to that of a people as only having a classroom full of small banks, a blackboard and a unique water that alquien are cleaned from time to time.

There is a young teacher who is in charge of controlling a crowd of forty or fifty guys who are among the four or five to eight or nine. All together without girls, no rhyme or reason as some can not read and others already know the four arithmetic rules. 
Difficult mission to D. Jose Luis teach something to those who only think crios play and shout the more the better.


Recess is to go all out on the street watched by the teacher and get to a clearing where they can run and play fooball with a rag ball most of the time.
Decided at home Han, the smallest of the three brothers go to school despite being very young, four years old, just cross a narrow street ground, no cars driving by, and so the mother will have a moment of peace taking the crios and at school. Her sisters have started to go to a convent school, only to girls, and so the mother of three little devils feel more relaxed to do their daily chores stretching as much as possible money and make ends meet on at least enough to eat. The cryo only four years from the first day has stuck to the teacher as a lapa, is afraid between boys twice his age, brutes who fight and stick kicking a kind of balloon formed by tight cloths. When they go out for recess on the street she grabs the hand of Don Jose Luis and does not slip at all times. 
It's a quiet cryo, suffered and quiet you want then given by the teacher. He learns very quickly and with less than five years begins to read and write.

Around there are other children who are more advanced, have a book Encyclopedia on learning a little of everything, geography, history, religion, arithmetic and little else. Too much work for a single teacher who attends dozens of boys in different stages of learning.
When the teacher simply copy a few subtraction sums are tired and some multiplication on the blackboard, sentences, and tells them to solve the various accounts and complete a sheet of notebook repeating phrases slate with good lyrics.

The morning passed without feeling herding a slap to rule the more unruly.  
He's a good teacher, understanding and patient with the kids even though some are gross and reaccios to solve the jobs that put them. Never learn enough and very few years when they leave school iran fucking, apprentices or laborers to any work or shop around. 

The economy of their parents do not give more, and require them to contribute some money soon as possible, there are no laws governing the work of the boys and sometimes little more than sustain the guys working in the cities of postwar Spain with just over eleven or twelve. 

In the villages the boy and girls begin to work in the field before nine or ten years. Too many mouths to feed many arms need to earn a wage of misery. 


Better than nothing, no options, studying the rich or those privileged to have parents who work from dawn to dusk and even at night just to bring sustenance and their offspring procurle studies.

Emiliano, the father of this cryo, also Emiliano, and his two older Hemanas that, Paquita and Esther, was born in a small village of Burgos. 
Only he studied a few years in the village school but it was enough to know how crucial it is to have knowledge or study the more the better to develop a well-paid profession. 
Why only They will study the rich? he asks, my children also will have the opportunity to study and train to get a good job that earn enough. 
All his eagerness to work long hours is to give the best to your family and especially to provide their children the chance study, the more the better, why has some books inherited her grandfather's uncle priest. 

The crios devour these books again and again as they can read them and will be sooner than later. There are a total of forty books on different topics. Some novel "The Last Days of Pompeii", "Oliver Twist" "The Two orphans" and from Jules Verne. Also a "Christian Year" in embossed leather lined which is the jewel of the collection. There are twelve books, one for each month, and come the life of All Saints Catholic Church celebrates every day.
Also a small encyclopaedia-dictionary in three volumes, where crios strive to consult all the words "no" to they occur, and of course their definitions. 
They learn what is "carnal" "cohabit" "whore" and all the words and definitions related to what is not spoken or mentioned.

The sexual subject is taboo in Spain in forty-one talks about it, only the near puberty or the offspring boys talk secret of these issues. 
When they discover a new word or definition transmit to each other causing the overlapping laughter and hiding if any more is interested in their conversations.  
  

PLAYING IN THE STREET - MADRID YEARS 40

 Nothing better to play crios the neighborhood of Tetuan to the street in the forties, each had its panda and of course the boys in a street not play or formed alliances with other different.
The fights were rare, many guardianship and surveillance by the authorities of the Franco Regime that not even the boys fought among themselves, as a 'drea "with small pebbles that could escalbrarte if you stuck squarely, never was a serious wound, a small gap a some blood and expect to be cured. 

collection of small stones that were previously agreed were doing, they got into their pockets and flexible rods were being cast as if they were catapults the boys and girls of the opposite side. 
playtime is fixed and unless some rival surrendered no winners or losers.

The "drea" or slingshot, always playing in the open fields that have trees or boulders to hide, and was often found as near the area was a site where polished blocks to ornament houses or graves.
The winter or autumn taking advantage of the cold and lack of people by wasteland was a good time to take a "dreas! or a "stone-throwing", although the latter were often more dangerous because the pebbles were older. 
Not all boys or girls participated in them because they had any real fear of being escalabrados and then at home received a good thrashing from her mother.

Of the three hemanos, medium and small were involved in the "dreas" not in the "stone-throwing" it had a certain fear of the consequences if proved descalabrados. 

"Raise the Maya" was another very auspicious games winter in cold evenings, like "The Rescue" the "Hideout" or "Cops and Robbers". . In every place of Spain were called differently but essentially were very similar rules of "rescue" or "Hide and Seek"

The Rescue

The linking it wasnt the lots and had to count to one hundred so that others give them time to hide. As I was finding its hidden companions had to say caught / ay take them to a place. On that bound, as was looking to others hiding what would be done with care, since someone could come out of hiding and running to the place where his companions and shout saved! Thus, saved his companions that they would have to hide.

And for "Hike the Maya"

 

" a game of boys in the province of Álava: is hiding all but one is left to the care of an object, usually a stone, to which the name of maya is given. The lance is to reach the Mayan before the charge to care, when he leaves her to discover the hidden ".

When the maya or object is played without being seen and named by seeking the hidden s the boy or girl were saved and among those remaining if one was discovered he tocaria guard the maya.
When he was looking forward to a hidden eñ vigilante finder had to get to the stone or object before the descibierto, playing maya or object and scream Lift up the Maya by Pepe, or Carmen, and that would be one that would take care of Maya and seek out the hidden next turn.

Nothing better or more fun for these crios to have a gang in the street and go play all mixed, boys and girls, to very different games that lack of other entertainment practiced in the street.

FORTY YEARS SPAIN

Many years ago in a place called Spain, Lived three very young children Who Were brothers. 
Two girls and one boy Who was the child's mother, and it is Believed That much then a Reviews having a male in the family.
Though there was little pampering, it Went really bad, hunger, deprivation, cold and falta de mood or patience With Such misery, WHO was little more affection or cuddling Received, as They Said Their older sisters.

This three children Were not Told anything, Lived the life you always friendly winds the little ones to play and mischief That exasperated His Mother WHO stretched the money to make ends meet and not used in a good mood.

in Original children's father was born in 1914, First World War, and her young Son Also was born in 1943, the middle of World War, Although Their surroundings, Spain, world war not too noticeable. 

hunger is happening anyway, with war and after it, and after much worse That the country was isolated with an international blockade Have tacitly supported the losers, German forces and Their bloody dictator with previously Helped Who Had the Spanish dictator freely Elected to defeat the government of the Second Republic.


Spain was a poor country, hungry, repressive, Where the individual or collective liberties HAD Been mowed or rennet arracandas after a long civil war pitted brother That Against brother, neighbors, family, friends and ended up With more than a million dead in battle and outside it, killed, massacred by Both Sides buried anonymously in contention.

After esta there was a big crackdown by the victors, dictatorship, tens of Thousands of lives and no one Dared to speak, assemble, or create Conflicts of any order.
There was no right to strike, assembly, association, and of course the political parties.
's "secret" secret as it was called, polícia Asked documentation anywhere else When traveling by train or bus as the monitoring was exaustivo and strict.
scarcity was extreme, hata point That Were ration cards issued for commodities chords With The number of members of the same family.

was going to the store When I Heard That news Reached a commodity, oil, potatoes, sugar, flour, salt, or any other vital subsistence supply. 
Either HAD coal or wood for you light the fire and to cook.

For in Original crios Seemed pleasant life, Were children at the end of the day and no Knew Otherwise, at home there was almost nothing, no telephone, no washing machine, no refrigerator or any other appliance to help in housework.
A radius second hand, few books inherited from His grandfather and nothing else.
too cold in winter and suffocating in summer, as everyone then a Went by, and if you wanted to cool off in summer slept outdoors drank a jug of mud and slept nap at noon.
Centre esta will suffice, but not to Their parents Who Had seen better stages.
These three brothers Lived on the outskirts of Madrid, in the district of Tetuan of Victories Were acerca privileged, Because His Father Worked all day in office two jobs. 
was not a manual worker, got up at half past six and was returning at ten o'clock at night.
When her children came home Were Already in bed and I was too tired to try to wake them up .

's life in villages or small towns was much worse then a hardly Because HAD work for day laborers When the fields HAD Been destroyed and there was no grain to reap no land to plant. 

's black market and food hoarding was the common trend in all places, So THAT the prevailing dictatorship established a customs barriers or outside Populations That prevented us free movement of traffic or any food Between territories.
Such organisms are there called "office supplies" and Were responsible to monitor, inspect and report abuses in the composition or distribution of commodities.

milk, wine is aguaban, oils, sugar is mixed, there was no coffee, chicory was ground as a substitute for Coffee and families are used to ration bread, sugar, margarine, meat or any food remediera Widespread hunger.

For Looked three children in Original Filled With elapse life adventure, did not know the hardships of life and routine part Were not craving a life change for the better because i just did not know That was that.
A better than They Did That ?, nonsense, Were Almost all day playing in the street after leaving school life, and I had a good time imagining They Were then a comic heroes, "The Warrior Mask" or "Roberto Alcazar and Pedrín" among many others. 
From Countless comics published entoces Which Were That Were liked more of "Battle Feats" They were very expensive but, They used to look at them with envy When They saw them at any kiosk of the neighborhood in the hands of other more babies older than them.

They Collected stickers of Movies that premiered then a and for them it was like theater, to get home was When I returned to the reality of scarcity and bad smoke.

Local The cinema was His refuge and Sought to go AT LEAST one day a week sessions for children, Where crios thronged the grounds of foot, seat and That They cared to them just to watch a western or meet with mouth open watching the homes of Americans in a comedy of then. 

COMICS ON THE FORTY YEARS - SPAIN

a tiny street of Tetuan of the Victories, three little brothers face the momentous decision to
eat an ounce of chocolate With Your piece of bread, hard, or spend the cents in a comic. 
To purchase the new comic seventy five cents and need are unhappy With buy one and share the possession thereof. 
No, that's not an option, each must weigh the alternative of running out of breakfast, baguette and square of chocolate for a quarter, or invest the money her mother Gave them for breakfast in a wonderful comic of "Warrior Mask" cartoon lasts forever ponder and baguette with chocolate we eat in an instant.
Finally bought two and spread over baguette and two ounces of chocolate Between the three.
secret is all clear, His mother can not find out WHO skip breakfast and go to school happy with Their comics and Almost empty belly.

's young life in a Spain in Original misery feeds on dreams, heroes, and neighborhood theaters. 
Infant session in a cinema "Piper" cost a quarter to fifty cents and was a constant aspiration Their mother to them than pay them a weekly task. 

Dreaming and living the adventures of characters the graphics transcurria His life without too much upheaval in an environment of apparent happiness, unreal, Which to them was the best of all worlds.

Swords of wood, stones, files for playing "robaterrenos" in moist soil, the barter girls, and the "rope" mixed boys and girls.

poverty around him was Manifested as small houses hovels without light or ventilation Where Lived: sometimes whole families without running water or a toilet Between neighbors sharing.
Wondered These crios on by His mother and many of her neighbors angry Seemed With frequency. Conducive to slap, or more, to Their children When They got shot.
At the Slightest, bang, slap and shut up.  

Forgotten the next their second slap returned to world of illusion, fantasy and games rereading Dozens of times same cartoons, exchanging With Their idols buddies, or trying to catch a "fat bitch" (ten cents PTA) to change the comic less appreciated at the kiosk on the corner.

Sometimes Instead of changing Their precious treasure for a different neighborhood crios the graphic Could another miracle to hire another senior colleague WHO possessed an assorted collection coveted by all.

Exibian deployed on the ground When the ground was dry, made ​​with small shingle and subject to all the lads are made ​​mouth water watching the stories of Their heroes dream at your eyes.

Dreamed no cakes or chicken, only "Carpanta" Their Stories imagined unattainable for chickens and all the guys all Neighborhoods roasts.
And They ?, feet Knew the feet?
Clueless, cakes, candies and cakes Were not identified in Spain get hungry and seedy bars Where Almost bread was mission impossible by price and scarcity. objects

Shortages After World war Became really unbearable, Spain was isolated, locked as punishment for Their support of Nazi losers. There was no international institution That is allowed, and the Marshall Plan of 1947 there meat to the Spanish lands as a result of STI support Regimen loser.

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 The Marshall Plan (officially called European Recovery Program or ERP ) Most Important plan was the United States for the reconstruction of countries Europe after the Second World War , Which in turn was Intended to Contain a possible advance of communism . 

After six years of war, much of Europe was devastated and millions of people died HAD Were or maimed. The fighting HAD Occurred Almost everywhere, covering a much larger area than was Affected During the First World War . Because of the air raids, most of it heavily damaged Were the cities and industrial areas Especially That HAD Been the main targets of These bombings. Berlin and Warsaw Were piles of rubble, and London and Rotterdam HAD Been badly hit. The economic situation of the continent HAD to eat nothing and millions of people in poverty Were. , Although the Dutch Hunger episode 1944 Could Be resolved, the overall devastation of agriculture Caused a wave of hunger in Europe, Exacerbated by the harsh winter of 1946 - 1947 in northeastern Europe. They Were Also destroyed infrastructure: such as the railroads , the bridges and roads , Which HAD Been the main target of aerial bombardment, and many ships sunk HAD Been charge. The smallest Municipalities HAD not Suffered the ravages of Both war, but the falta de transport networks HAD left Virtually isolated Both Physically and financially.

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The devastation from civil war in Spain joined famine That hit European exports in the years of war in Europe.
Once finished beef exports small in Original War to an end, lacking equity hunger, loneliness, international isolation before a Fascist Dictatorial Regime in Spain was absolute and complete. 
Nobody wanted to do it or traded with a plague That Country HAD supported the Regime of Nazi Germany, and the poor survivors of a Spanish Civil War itself, trying to Overcome the situation of the methods more advantage all, nothing is pulled, the dustbins took days to fill, and when to the "garbage truck" pulled by a mule passed-through the streets without pavement scruffy boys or women flocked into the street to borrow bucket in hand for it to be emptied into the carriage. 

Plague summer bearable because few products HAD any chance of rot. Susceptible Any organic food to be eaten was gone in stomachs and whos family were very few Things That can be thrown away.  
A small cart pulled by mules was one or two Sufficient to meet the wastewater needs of many neighborhood streets.
The cars Were provided by the so-called "scavengers" Who Were in charge of touring Neighborhoods, with permission from the authority, and the waste pile called "scavengers" that proliferated by Dozens on the outskirts of the capital city's Neighborhoods.

For boys and girls in the neighborhood there was nothing more fun than Amalia down the street and into the "trash" of the small area. There horganizaban bonfires and urinated on them, is rummaging in the garbage and always Showed some curious and useless object, since the ragpickers with previously stockpiled HAD rags, paper, or report some scrap That Could pesetas.

to be continued..

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