La tía Catalina

Catalina de María Rodríguez fue una mujer de su época que nos habla y guía en la realidad de hoy. Se trata de alguien que supo ocupar el lugar que le correspondía a cada momento en cada una de las muchas y diferentes funciones que le tocó asumir. Gracias a su capacidad de discernir los signos de su tiempo, su vida transcurrió atenta a las necesidades de las personas y al deseo de Dios en su corazón. La hna. Silvia no nos relata una historia de principio a fin sino que ilustra a su Madre en toda su persona. Conoceremos a alguien real, que nos invita a descubrir la misericordia de Dios...

Hay un delirio del que huye la soledad como si se tratara de un edificio en llamas. Y hay un común delirar que se llama amor, poesía, teatro, enseñanza, justicia, acción política. A ese común delirar se da la generosa obra de Vicente. Y aquí está Vicente: lleva —como Van Gogh— un hermoso sombrero de paja lleno de velas para ver en la oscuridad. Marcelo Percia Me di cuenta que yo amaba lo que Vicente amaba y de alguna manera, también logró que empezara a amar lo que nunca había amado antes. Y una de las cosas que más amo es poder conversar con Vicente. Alfredo Grande La misión ...

I was born into the family of William Julius and Emilie (Baudat) Gayle on August 30, 1919 They decided to name me Luella Celestine for my two grandmothers...Luella Love (Sanders) Gayle and Celestine (Pichon) Baudat. I did not like the name and was very happy that they decided to call me “Celeste.” At the time of my birth, my brother Milton was almost two, having been born September 2, 1917. Unfortunately, he died with Diphtheria on December 11, 1921, when I was only two. Mom and Dad had previously lost a son, Dalton, who died April 13, 1915 at the age of 16 months. He was born December 8, ...

A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

At 16, Salvador Dali had already developed the remarkable ego and uncanny perception that would distinguish him as one of the most notorious artists of the 20th century. A self-proclaimed surrealist, an avant-garde exhibitionist, and a criticized commercialist with questionable political affiliations, Dali was anything but benign. Via the artist's correspondence, diary, and autobiography, Gibson meticulously stitches together the wild characters and deep-dish details of Dali's life.