From archetypes to poetic language: a journey through the collective unconscious to discover that our identity is the node of a universal symphony. By Ana Rosa Rodríguez HoyLunes – We live surrounded by signs, yet we rarely stop to interpret symbols. We believe ourselves to be the solitary architects of our thoughts, masters of an impenetrable individuality; however, beneath…
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Grief is Also Written: What I Didn’t Know How to Say Out Loud
There are griefs that make no noise. They don’t come kicking down doors, nor do they bring movie-style drama. There are griefs that settle in like a dim light in the hallway: it doesn’t illuminate anything, but it doesn’t let you forget it’s there either. By Lidia Roselló HoyLunes – They sit with you at the table. They watch…
Read MoreYear-End: The Word That Sets Us Free
Beyond the toasts and the clamor, the end of the year whispers an outstanding invitation: to inhabit the silence, to name that which is wounded, and to discover that forgiveness is not forgetting, but rather the light luggage we need to begin anew. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – Time makes no noise; the year does not announce its closure.…
Read MoreMoments of Awareness and Reconciliation
In an uncertain December, the invitation to introspection becomes a beacon: a journey toward reconciliation with the wounds of the past and inner forgiveness, transforming memory into a guide for inhabiting the present with clarity and building a future of hope rooted in human compassion. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – This has been a year in which we have…
Read MoreThe New Year’s Eve Ritual for Superstitious Female Writers
Literary Toast and Writer’s Foibles: Five New Year’s Eve Rituals for Writing, Publishing, and Traveling with Your Next Novel. From the twelve grapes to gold in the glass, the author reveals her fun and functional New Year’s Eve rituals, transforming classic superstitions into creative promises so that her second novel, following *Ladrona de Naranjas*, is born with passion and good…
Read MoreRising Technology, Fragmented Humanity
A journey through the brightness and shadows of progress, where innovation advances at high speed while social reality remains divided between those who can reach it and those who can only watch from afar. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – We live in an era in which humanity has witnessed unprecedented medical and technological advances. Science seems to brush against…
Read MoreLetter to the Writer I Want to Be in 2026
A letter that travels through time: an intimate dialogue between the writer we are and the one we dream of becoming. By Lidia Roselló HoyLunes – Dear future me: I hope you are reading this with a cup of green tea in your hand (although if it is December, it will probably be a hot chocolate, because writers also…
Read MoreThe Silent Miracle of December
An invitation to return to what truly matters: when December steps away from consumerism and regains its power to heal, unite, and remind us. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – We enter this month with hope shining in our eyes, trying to illuminate our hearts. In my article “The Echo Behind the Lights,” I show how the market turns this…
Read MoreWhen the Community Breathes Fear: Chronicles of a Deep Disorder
A journey to the hidden heart of violence: where absences speak louder than gunshots. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – The history of social conflicts is as old as humanity itself. In every era we have tried to understand them, repress them, suppress them, negotiate them, sometimes endure them or simply ignore them. Society is a living being created by…
Read MoreThe Fifth Horseman: The Silent Shadow that Rides Within Us
An intimate reflection on faith, the passage of time, and that invisible enemy that settles in without asking permission: unwanted loneliness, the horseman who does not appear in the Scriptures but marks our lives more strongly than war, hunger, or pestilence. By Fernando Codina HoyLunes – I have never been particularly religious; I was raised in a family that,…
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