"Juventud,Divino Tesoro" is a direct line taken from Ruben Dario's poem Cancion de Otono en Primavera, in which he reflects on lovers passed, describing each as a season. The following is the stanza in which he uses the line:
Juventud, divino tesoro,
¡ya te vas para no volver!
Cuando quiero llorar, no lloro...
y a veces lloro sin querer.
Translation:
Youth,divine treasure/You are leaving to never return!/When I want to cry, I do not.../and sometimes, I cry for no reason.
When my father made me read this a couple of years back, I immediately knew it's importance and relevance to me. I first felt close ties to it because of the poet's iconic status in Nicaragua, my father's homeland. Second, I just "got" it. We are only young once, appreciate all you have in the present,you know, all the cliche's...As for the second half of the stanza...superfluous youthful hormonal reactions? We have all had them. I just felt this line was an appropriate general title so that nothing will seem too out of place.It's not deep...everything written on here will be coming from a 20 year old...so there.
-Dario:Essential in any Nicaraguan household.
Frida's Twin. When I turned in my blog's url, my adviser asked "Does that mean what I think it does?" Yes, it does. I don't know how many people, have told me,especially after the biopic on her life came out, that I look like Frida Kahlo...thank to the occasional uniting of the brows,most likely,(T.M.I.,i know.)
(The truth is that I'm lying.More people have said I look like the actress who portrays the Mexican artist...you know who! I just never want to admit/insist on that in case a party besides the one who told me I look like her should come along and say in a loud, obnoxious voice, "YOU LOOK NOTHING LIKE HER!" Ouch,says my self-consciousness!) Anyway, along with resembling her, I admire her courageous art, what she wore, and how she,as the film depicted, had that unstoppable passion. Her political,Communist agenda I pay no mind to.
I hope you've gotten something out of this explanation.
- Thanks for having me look at something...and for the look itself!
