![]() ![]() I am in its shadow and am contemplating the long chain of circumstance that brought me here: My marriage two years before in a Maryland town to a foreign student I met at the university, my wife's pregnancy and return to Argentina, as obliged by the terms of her Fulbright scholarship, our long separation, Andrea's birth, my journey here, three weeks on an Argentine freighter. For all these reasons it is called the "drunkard tree," palo borracho. Not only is it disproportionate, but it leans about ten degrees off the perpendicular. It is oddly fat at the bottom its grayish green bark is covered with spikes it has muscular branches and the trunk narrows near its crown of floppy leaves. I am newly arrived and am having coffee in the town plaza near a strange tree, the like of which I have never seen. Eccentric thoughts arrive: Death nudges my elbow ever so faintly, tempts me to plunge in briefly the mind is liberated of all human responsibilities and a nihilistic sense of freedom is born within me it advances, encouraged by the storm, until more pedestrian considerations fight their way back to my rescue. ![]() Storms move the mind they excite it with apocalyptic transfigurations of air and water, by the turmoil they bring to the land-the wildly churning trees and tall grasses above the beach throwing off their seed-like dust. The Costanera Hotel at the end of the beach, the towers behind it, rigid and straight, all fixed their blank eyes on the horizon only the stoic seawall seemed not at all lulled by this inaction. I was living through a moment of singular pause, when everything, all the mighty forces, held still: the wind stopped like sucked-in breath the sea was seized in a slack-water calm, though the waves, unaccepting of this stasis, continued to caress the shore with the lethal tenderness of one who nuzzles a beloved animal about to be put down. But, as infants will, my daughter made her own decisions: She began to cry, so they went back, and I promised to join them soon.Īlone in the gathering silence of that moment, I thought Miramar the most beautiful place in the world, a perfect town of rust-red roofs sharply defined against a low line of billowing, cloud-like trees, and set out as if on a shelf before the sea where the green waters rush out into the blue. It seemed the rain would hold off for a while the child, I thought, might be stimulated in some benign way by all this natural excitement. Susana wanted to take Andrea, the baby, back home I urged her to stay. I thought it a bravely cavalier response before such august power. The two fishermen on the pier with us reeled in their lines, picked up empty sacks, and peddled off with a display of annoyance. A sensation of apprehension and delight came over us as the chilled air, the outrider of the storm, swept around us. ![]() We watched it from the pier near our house and then stood astonished as the lightning flashed again and again along the line of the horizon within the swelling darkness, as if telling of a far-off naval battle. It appeared off to the south, its blackness running fluidly through the ivory sky. This halcyon weather continued until the day a black storm arose. We're changing presently.In our first three weeks in Miramar, in a small house within twenty yards of the sea, we were served a white sky every morning. The most supply of cash for Chilled Chaos is YouTuber Currently, we have a tendency to don't have enough knowledge relating to vehicles, fortnightly / yearly wage, and so on. he earned the cash being a professional YouTuber. Chilled Chaos is located in New York, United States. Her age of 28 years 4 months 29 days old recent. We shared the updated 2020 net worth details of Chilled Chaos such as monthly, salary, cars, yearly income, property below. Following to Wikipedia, IMDb, Forbes on-line resources, acknowledge YouTuber Chilled Chaos's net worth is $1 Million To $5 Million And Monthly earned 10000 USD To 500000 USD. ![]()
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