#11.- Give a hug

People, in some cultures don't use to have contact. Specially in adult people and in public places. This is something that usually is missunderstud.
Nonetheless, give a hug is one of the best ways to give and receive energy from one person to other person.
I started later to give hugs. I wasn't educated to give or receive hugs. I remember that the first time I received a hug, a chill ran through my body.
Now I like hug my wife and son when I arribe home or when I depart to work in the morning.
Last Wednesday I gave a hug to Didac, one of my workmate because I was happy with him. He explained his powerful tools and knowledge to Laura to be used in other parts of the company. Provoquing that smart people talk and share experiences is something that make me happy!

#10.- Straw hat

My grandfather used to wear an straw hat when he was working on the field under a blazing sun.
It was a way to protect his bald pate from the sun burns when it wasn't usual to protect the body with sunscreen.
When I was young I looked that this complement was for the old people (things of the youth), but yesterday my wife brought me a straw hat to protect my bald pate from the sun burns when I'm caring the garden.
I could protect my bald pate with sunscreen, but now I prefer wear the straw hat because it remembers me to my grandfather and in some way is part of my ADN.
The life is a cycle. Now I'm the old and my son is the young that sees this straw hat as a complement only for the old people, and the story starts again.

#9.- Walking at night under the moon

Specially at summer, when the temperature is hot, I like go walking, after dinner, with my wife and son.

Walk and talk quietly and avoid to be sat in front of the fool box (the TV).

There isn’t any special milestone to reach, only refresh the body and observe the night through the light of the moon.

All is peaceful. Some black cats crossing the street, some people riding on bicycle and other eating an ice cream, and a group of young people eating pipes and spitting the shells on the floor. 

Ocassionally, one fool guy brokes this wellness scenario with the sound of a motorbike.

Calmly we reach the midnight. It’s time to go bed. Rest and be good.

#8.- Disconnecting mobile

We live in an interconnected world. We wear the power of communications in our pocket.

That have positive things like having communications with people that live in the other part of the world fast and easyly and cheaper than travel there.

But the negative part is being all day pending of the mobile: Do you have a new SMS, miss call or e-mail to answer? Or worse yet, if someone calls you, and you have the mobile disconnected he believes the he has the right to quarrel for that.

I grow with out mobile and I was happy. Then there isn't any reason that makes mobile mandatory.

On weekend I practice the 'mobile disconnexion'. There are thousands of interesting things more insteresting than being controlled for an fool box.

#7.- Fetching water

Ocasionally, I go to fecth water from a source near home. I go because I want. I have choosen this option because I like the flavour of this water.
That's make think that, usually we aren't conscious about our fortune and our egoism at the same time.
Not every body have water at home, not every body can open the hot water tap for a bath. . . Is worse than that. There are a lot of people that don't have water to drink or wash their hands!
Water is basic for health, to prevent diseases and starvation, to grow plants. . .
Is incredibly that in the high tech era we are living thousands of people don't have water.

We should please our good luck looking for, thinking and sharing one idea to solve this problem each time we open the water tap.

#6.- Gamestorming with my son

Kids are indredible creative.
Fortunately, they don't know the rules of adult people that limit our thoughts. Unknowing these 'social acepted rules' are wings for them to face adult problems with an incredible creativity, imagination and easylyness.
They face the problems from an other point of view, another perspective. This is something that adults should do frecuently to be more practical.
Somedays, before going bed, I exercise with my son to solve some human problems: starvation, water, energy, how to make a happier world. We do a brainstorming and he likes do that. So many times he proposes things that I wouldn't never have thought.
I'm the present, my son the future.
I should protect him from those "bad rules" that makes everybody social acepted, but humanly useless.
I believe that adults would spend more time with kids the world would be a better and happier place to live.

The key question is: are the things so complex for be understandable for the kids? Or are so easy than we can believe?

#5.- Summer storms

I like summer storms. They are like a long  suspense movie: the first and small signals like ants collecting seeds, birds flying anxius, grey clouds filling the sky. Then sound of thundres so far away. Some minutes before start the storm the wind gets faster in a very characteristic way. The first 'gotas' that produce an special smell (the smell to tierra mojada), the lights and thunders and finally the storm. Parents and kids watching te storm througth the window, talking quietly, explaining the magic of ligth andthe difference with thunders.
When it finishes the calm return and the life goes on: the snails appear, the birds start to fly again and people go out from their homes.
Always the same script. Incredible, beautiful, amazing.

#4.- Cooking

I like cooking. I started to cook,for my girl friend, when I was 19 years old . Then, I cooked lots of pies. It was my speciallity.
Years later, when I got married I started to cook meals more elaborated, like paella.
And now I like to cook meals as simple and natural as possible: a simple omelette, zucchini, chard, steamed vegetables.

In someway, we cook to survive, but cooking is a good way to relax and leave your mind flowing, is a good way to make some manual work, to leverage you creativity, to cooperate with your family to enjoy later together eating what we have prepared
.
Those are some reasons why cooking make me happy.

#3.- Collecting zucchini

Some months after planting these small seeds, the Magic of the Earth transformed them in these marvelous zucchini.

I'm very impressed about this transformation process. 

This is really magic: good earth, water, love and time.

The zucchini plant produces a lot and we aren't unable to eat all fruits, for this reason we distribute zucchini to our neighbours for free. I like to see my neighbours pleased.

#2.- Caring my pumkins

I'd like care plants. But I'm really expected about these decorative pumkins I've planted.
I hope to have a good harvest to bring pumkins to my family, friends, workmates, etc... Thinking in I'll bring these to them make me happy and give me energy to care the plants.

#1.- Having English classes with Valerie

Having English classes with Valerie has been one of the things that have made me happier this year.
The English class has been more than an English class. The English class has been the spark of new corporate projects, the place to reflexion and question, lots of established things, the place to discover oneself.

Is incredible, but the time flies in the English class. It has been usual, that we have been chatting for more than 2 hours, overpassing the time agreed.

Thinking in English, speaking about feelings, mates, projects, life, ... have gave me the confidence and the fluency to learn faster and enjoy with the learning of English.

This kind of magic feeling make that I want to learn more and more, to listen more and more, to speak more and better... and allows me to comunicate with interesting, clever, and smart foreign people... And all thats make me happy.

Valerie thank you for helping me the be a better person ;-) that speaks English a bit better than when I started the take classes.