Culture

Here is some food for thought that captures something people often miss: not glorifying contrarianism, but diagnosing a failure mode in human thinking. These points at overlaps with what modern psychology calls groupthink and social conformity. When a belief is widely shared, the social cost of questioning it rises while the perceived need to question it falls. That combination is dangerous. We don’t just inherit a belief, we inherit the confidence of the crowd along with it. - Quote by Dante: “Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge”

When I was born, my father named me after an MLB star player. Then he wanted me to become an architect. In a way, I followed his second wish. Cuando nací, mi padre me puso el nombre de una estrella de la #MLB. Luego quiso que me convirtiera en arquitecto. De alguna manera, seguí su segundo deseo.
I have dedicated decades to the intersection of language, culture, and trust, at the Associated Press alongside journalists of multiple nations and traditions, at Univision when it was SIN, at News 12, building something from nothing for a community that had been invisible, at Telemundo, trusting my audience when the boss said otherwise. Almost every institution I have worked with needed to reach a community it did not fully understand. The challenge is always the same. The information exists. The access exists. What is missing is the cultural and linguistic intelligence to make the truth land. That is what I provide. Not translation. Not consultation. And not diversity for its own sake.

He dedicado décadas a la intersección del idioma, la cultura y la confianza, en Associated Press, junto a periodistas de varias tradiciones; en Univision, antes se llamaba SIN; en News 12, construyendo algo desde cero para una comunidad que había sido invisible; en Telemundo, confiando en mi audiencia cuando el jefe decía lo contrario.
Casi todas las instituciones con las que he trabajado necesitaban llegar a una comunidad que no comprendían del todo. El desafío es siempre el mismo. La información existe. El acceso existe. Lo que falta es la inteligencia cultural y lingüística para que la verdad aterrice. Eso es lo que yo ofrezco. No traducción. No consultoría. Y no diversidad como apariencia.

When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19-21 NLT

The dual form still exists in some languages, such as Arabic. But why did such a poetic pronoun go extinct in English? It seems especially strange when popular culture still celebrates that sense of a special two-ness today and the prevalence of "just the two of us" pervades song and literature.

We Are an Easter People in a Solemn Holy Friday World “We are an Easter people, and Alleluia is our song.”

Please allow me to share a reflection about a horse, a book collection, and a crooked smile, and leave with the confirmed foundation of a memoir that spans Cuban cabinet politics, the birth of American Spanish-language media, José Martí, and a New York Times clipping from 1939 that proves my grandfather stood at the center of history.
What you have now:
A title. A One-Way Pass to Paradise.
An opening. Dr. Oscar Bonachea, October 10, 1939.
A spine. The thread from your grandfather's Cuba to your America.
A closing question. What do we owe the people who saw us before we saw ourselves?
Come back anytime. The next chapter is waiting whenever you are ready to write it.
And thank you — for the reminder that the small things we say, or don't say, matter more than we know. That lesson landed today, right here in this conversation.

There were eight major Crusade expeditions, each with distinct objectives and outcomes: