Lately, I have been eating a lot.
It is not gluttony, although I confess that I love chocolates, cookies, and cakes.
It is a feast that has fed me for the past few weeks from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed, sometimes rewarded with a midnight snack if things are tight.
The good thing is that this food has no calories, only those that one does not spend by being sitting down. But the best of all is that it magically brings the remote family together at the same table.
You guessed it, the banquet I am referring to is sports.
Time has been very convenient, because I can have breakfast in Wimbledon, lunch and dinner with football, the European Cup and the America’s Cup respectively and, as if that were not enough, I season it on the weekends with Formula One, golf yes, I pass.
Although some consider sport as not very intellectual, or a mega business, or a smokescreen, bread and circus, I just love it except when my favorite team loses.
I believe that cultivating excellence through sporting competition, like the fine arts, is another form of improvement, of searching, that intimate human inclination to persevere, to follow, to believe.
To complete my agape, the 2024 Olympics in France are coming soon, these games that have been documented since 776 BC. Which were celebrated in Olympia, in honor of Zeus.
Calgary hosted the Winter Olympics in 1988, and downtown, in the Olympic Plaza, there is a large arch that reminds us of the ancient motto with which I illustrate this chronicle.
“Citius. Altius. Fortius”
“Faster. Higher. Stronger”
It is the exuberance, that immense abundance that feeds the human spirit.
Today she shares her “impulsive meditations” from Calgary, Canada, where she lives.
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