Immigrants and beggars
They are located anywhere in the cities. Upright, lying, laying -- the vessel next to or the hand stretching. Making music, saying something to people or quiet. Women, men, young, old, of all colors and languages… As in the past on the portals of churches, today on the entrances and exits of markets… They are beggars. Most immigrants.
In the customs of the old peasants and small towns they knew how to act with the homeless. They were well known because they approached the house portal several times a year. They ordered them to do a little work, cut timber or, in return, allowed them to sleep in a corner of the mandium and feed them those days.
Today there are many who want to be cared for by the institutions. Subsidies to associations that prefer to collaborate with them. Others say that a social struggle is needed so that there is no wandering. All right. But it is also not harmful to have a small look at the homeless and given a currency from time to time.
Our grandfather, Isidro, told us that in his childhood he was walking on the banks of Hernani to Goizueta. He played a small whistle, in the cottages and in the streets of Hernani all danced and in a nice atmosphere. Isidro picked up and harmonised a nice melody that touched: He put his ear title.
Some say that a social struggle is needed so that there are no strangers. All right. But it is also not harmful to have a small look at the homeless and given a currency from time to time.
Once an evil man stole the whistle and the sadness of Orejas spread to every corner. Although the parish organist priest bought him another in the market, he did not get the beautiful noise of before. Soon he disappeared from Hernani and a few months later he appeared dead on one road.
The first reading of the Sunday Mass was taken from the book Irteera (20, 20-26). Mr. speaks of: Do not misuse, do not crush the immigrant, because you have also been immigrants in Egypt. We have all been immigrants and we will be. In all aspects of life. The Jews were immigrants for centuries and now more Latinos, Ukrainians, Eastern, Moroccan or Senegalese.
Antonina Kuhot came from Ukraine in search of a better life. It happened in our house, a great collaborator in the care of all the elders: their aunts, their mother and their father. Converted into the home, he eventually returned to the village, with small amounts, to live peacefully his retirement. On Saturdays I call him on the phone and tell me how drones and missiles spend every night above his small town. Every week the same conversation ends: Call again next week, see if I am still here.
I'm sure soon drones and missiles will be going above us.
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