78. Give Me Your Hand And Dance With Me 💃🏼
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Friends,
Are you old enough to remember this beaut?
Here’s five things you may find interesting and/or meaningful.
1. A quote 📃
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of the living.” — Miriam Beard
2. A Poem 🇪🇸
For my wonderful Spanish friend Cristina whose smile lights up an entire island. She often tells me that she loves my newsletter but struggles as it’s always only in English — a little Spanish poem.
Dame la Mano (Give Me Your Hand) — Gabriela Mistral
Dame la mano y danzaremos
dame la mano y me amarás.
Como una sola flor seremos,
como una flor, y nada más…
El mismo verso cantaremos,
al mismo paso bailarás.
Como una espiga ondularemos,
como una espiga, y nada más.
Te llama Rosa y yo Esperanza:
pero tu nombre olvidarás,
porque seremos una danza
en la colina, y nada más.
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Give me your hand and give me your love,
give me your hand and dance with me.
A single flower, and nothing more,
a single flower is all we’ll be.
Keeping time in the dance together,
you’ll be singing the song with me.
Grass in the wind, and nothing more,
grass in the wind is all we’ll be.
I’m called Hope and you’re called Rose:
but losing our names we’ll both go free,
a dance on the hills, and nothing more,
a dance on the hills is all we’ll be.
3. Tootsie Love 🧦
4. Soviet Apartment Blocks In The Snow 🪆
I visited Latvia this year, my first trip to a Baltic country and I loved her! These beautiful Soviet apartment blocks in one of the other 3 Baltic states - Estonia - are magic.
5. 12 Months 📆
The transformation of a bonsai tree over 12 months.