It's Friday! Por fin viernes!!

Easter week is beginning; I dedicate this video (a song in Spanish, my translation of lyrics below) to all the people that are excluded, prosecuted or put apart just for trying to live and fight for love and social justice, and inviting others to do the same.

Silvio Rodríguez "Ala de colibrí" "Hummingbird's wing" (1995)

(Free, non-official translation to English. Original Spanish below.)

Today I propose to found a party of dreams, and workshops where we repair the wings of hummingbirds.

Loony people, ill ones, fat-without-love ones are allowed crippled, dwarfs, vampires, and days-without-sun.

Today I'm going to sponsor the deprived of hope candidness, that critical mass of God, that isn't post neither modern,

outlaws, rabids, people without home are allowed missing people, World Bank debtors...

Through a flaked off street, through a well done handshake...

Hummingbird’s wing, light and pure. Hummingbird’s wing, to heal you...

Today, I'm going to make an assembly of withered flowers, of rubbish from a children party, of used piñatas,

of shadows in torment from the natural kingdom, that provide license to any love artifact.

From the east, from the west through the desire, through the seed,

through so much night, through the daily sun, in company or alone...

Hummingbird’s wing, light and pure. Hummingbird’s wing, to heal you...

Silvio Rodríguez "Ala de colibrí" (1995)

Hoy me propongo fundar un partido de sueños, talleres donde reparar alas de colibrí.

Se admiten tarados, enfermos, gordos sin amor, tullidos, enanos, vampiros y días sin sol.

Hoy voy a patrocinar el candor desahuciado, esa crítica masa de Dios que no es pos ni moderna.

Se admiten proscritos, rabiosos, pueblos sin hogar, desaparecidos, deudores del banco mundial.

Por una calle descascarada, por una mano bien apretada.

Hoy voy a hacer asamblea de flores marchitas, de deshechos de fiesta infantil, de piñatas usadas,

de sombras en pena del reino de lo natural que otorgan licencia a cualquier artefacto de amar.

Por el levante, por el poniente, por el deseo, por la simiente.

Por tanta noche, por el sol diario. En compañía y en solitario.

Ala de colibrí, liviana y pura. Ala de colibrí para la cura.