Sand and stone Two friends were walking through the desert. Suddenly, they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. Though hurt, the latter said anything and wrote on the sand: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE. They kept on walking, until they found an oasis, where […]

FROM CATERPILLAR TO BUTTERFLY An old mulberry tree, seamed with wrinkles but full of wisdom, housed a small colony of caterpillars. They were honest, hardworking and their demands were few. They ate, slept and, except for some short visit to the bar of the penultimate branch to the right, they made no fuss. Though monotonous […]

THE CHAIR In a Spanish village a man’s daughter asked the local priest to come and pray with her ill father. When the priest arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows. There was a chair beside the bed and the priest assumed that it had been […]