Jara Rios Rodriguez
Bio
Professor, thinker, poet, reflectionist, seeker.
Stories (3/0)
I am loving her
Why am I disliking the woman in the mirror? There is absolutely no reason why I should. However, I see her flabby underarm and the cellulite on her stomach, the oversized love handles, and that flab in her abdomen above her c-section and they disgust me. Years ago, she was somewhat fit, and I was a bit more comfortable with her. I say "a bit" because I admit that I still saw her many body imperfections: she still needed some tighter abs, glutes, and legs to be attractive.
By Jara Rios Rodriguez3 years ago in Viva
Everything that you desire
Alzheimer's was taking the best of her. She had already had two strokes and now her words were difficult to find in her brain, so she held to the ones that came to her like the only thing of value left and she put in them all her heart. Yes, everything she felt was in those 5 little words that she repeated to me with increased intensity every time she saw me: "todo lo tú quieras" (everything that you desire) and she repeated them until there was no more breath: “Jarita, qué la vida te de todo lo que tú quieras, todo lo que tú quieras, todo lo que tú quieras, todo lo que tú quieras” (Jarita, I hope life gives you everything that you desire, everything that you desire, everything that you desire.) I can’t ever hear or pronounce those words anymore and not be inundated by her memories and her love for me. A love that I fall short of comprehending. That love still holds me today when life hasn’t given me necessarily all that I’ve wanted.
By Jara Rios Rodriguez3 years ago in Motivation