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Sergio Rodríguez – Instant (Instante)
Sergio Rodríguez – Support Staff . IE University Reading: Instant (Instante) by Sergio Rodríguez. I lack the time to hear the river of your voice when it meekly reaches this waterfall without your latent age roaring in the flood where I smile. I lack the time to go deeper into my story within the dense […]
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Alba M. Vázquez – Water, lost in itself (El agua ensimismada)
Alba M. Vázquez – Executive Director IE Women Initiative . IE University. Reading: Water, lost in itself (El agua ensimismada) by María Zambrano, (1904 – 1991) Water lost in itself, does it think or dream? The tree that inclines in search of its roots, the horizon, that untouched fire, do they think or dream? Marble […]
Borja Santos Porras – The nobodies (Los nadies)
Borja Santos Porras – Executive director UP and professor of practice at IE School of Global and Public Affairs. IE University. Reading: The nobodies (Los nadies) by Eduardo Galeano, from book El libro de los abrazos, 1989. Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping from poverty, that one magical day […]
Marina Amorós – On clear nights (En las noches claras)
Marina Amorós – Corporate Scholarships Assistant . IE Foundation. Reading: On clear nights (En las noches claras) by Gloria Fuertes, (1917 – 1998) Because on clear nights I solve the problem of the loneliness of being. I invite the moon, and with its shadow, we make three. — En las noches claras, resuelvo el problema […]
Nicole Rosow – The Flamingo’s Smile (excerpt)
Nicole Rosow – Associate Director of Sustainability. IE University . Reading: The Flamingo’s Smile (excerpt) by Stephen Jay Gould, published 1985 We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life’s continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may […]
Stephanie Robles – One (Wan)
Stephanie Robles – IE GMBA 2018. Director of Global Accounts WPP TV. IE Business School. Reading: One (Wan) by Robin ‘Dobru’ Ravales (1935-1983). One tree so many leaves one tree One river so many creeks all are going to one sea One head so many thoughts thoughts among which one must be good One God […]
Nick Lyne – The Clicking of Cuthbert (excerpt)
Nick Lyne – regular IE editor & translator. Reading: The Clicking of Cuthbert (excerpt) by P. G. Wodehouse, published 1922 In the case of Peter Willard and James Todd, one may hazard the guess that the first link in the chain that bound them together was the fact that they took up golf within a few […]
Soledad Atienza – Portrait (Retrato)
Soledad Atienza – Dean. IE Law School. Reading: Portrait (Retrato) – (excerpt) by Antonio Machado , from the book Campos de Castilla, 1912. My childhood are memories of a courtyard in Seville, And a clear orchard where the lemon tree ripens. My youth twenty years in the lands of Castile , my history, some cases to […]
Janire Ortega Ezkerra – The opportunity of the journey (Bidaiaren trenpu)
Janire Ortega Ezkerra – Controller Control Administrative Office. IE Business School. Reading: La oportunidad del viaje (Bidaiaren trenpu) by Pako Aristi , from book Urari ostatutako poemak , 2014. The journey is a blank page moved by the passion of ferment. It dawns with the imagination And even though it means leaving the well-being of home, […]
Marco Trombetta – Silence (Silenzio)
Marco Trombetta – Professor of Accounting and Management Control – IE Business School. Reading: Silence (Silenzio) by Giuseppe Ungarett, from book Il porto sepolto), 1916. Giuseppe Ungaretti is one of the greatest Italian poets of modern Italian literature. I adore him, because behind the apparent simplicity of his poems we find all the complexities of […]