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Hello, friends of Holos & Lotus. I'm extremely happy to participate in @neuropoeta's first initiative on optimism. This is his first time as a columnist (he precedes me in this responsibility), and

Hello, friends of literature. Nowadays, in a country where rhymed verse has lost and is losing more and more space (perhaps due to prejudice, perhaps due to ignorance, perhaps due to both), it's refreshing

Hello, coffee lovers around the world. I'm very grateful for the opportunity this week's prompt gives me to show how much I love the coffee shop I'll tell you about next. Café Real. This is a place located

Hello, cat lovers everywhere. Happy Cat Day Cat Day is celebrated every August 8th, 23 years ago. It was created by the International Fund for Animal Welfare. The establishment of this date is intended

Hello, fellow travelers from all over the world. Today I'm going to take you to a wonderful place: the Dulce María Loynaz Center. The house is located on the corner of 19th and E, in the heart of the old

Hello, friends in #hive. @joanstewart raises two very interesting questions, but it's the second one that hits closest to home for me, from a generational perspective. I was born in 1986, so by generation,

Hello, my friends at Cinnamon Cup Coffee. Today I'm not here to talk about #coffee, specifically, or a coffee shop, but rather about a very memorable moment, to answer the Prompt of Week 128: My first

Hello, bird friends! I'm very happy to show you this beautiful Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) very close to my balcony. The photo was taken in Nuevo Vedado, Havana. [//]:# (!worldmappin 23.11416

Hello, friends in #hive. I love these contests. Although, I don't really see them as contests, but rather as inspiration to talk about topics I'd never have thought of before. As is the case with this

Hello, fellow shadow hunters. As I was arriving home from a trip, these shadows attacked me. They were hidden behind the trees in this park, and as soon as I entered, these long shadows attacked me. Very

Hello, friends of Holos & Lotus. I'm joining @damarysvibra's initiative, who brought up a topic I discuss almost daily with my stepchildren. Responsibility. Responsibility is something we gain as we

Hello, friends of the best day of the week. We're in the summer vacation months. So, I decided to take a week off from work and spend a week with my family in Havana. To better manage our time, we left

Hello, art friends. Here are these beautiful murals for this week's CCC's Street Art Contest. Both murals are located below the Almendares Bridge, which divides the municipalities of Playa and Plaza, in

Hello, friends of Holos & Lotus. Today I titled this post with a phrase I repeat quite often. But it turns out I'm not the only one who repeats it, since everyone has their own order and their own

Hello, friends in #hive. It's quite complicated for a man to think about marriage at the age of 71, if you look at it from a cold, biological perspective. However, I've always been a hopeless romantic.

Hello, friends of black and white #photography. On a recent trip to the capital, I took the opportunity to photograph several of my city's iconic hotels. Hotel Nacional de Cuba. Without a doubt, it's my

Hello, friends. Yesterday, a friend wrote to me because he had seen a photo of me with long hair on Facebook, from back in 2013. It was the next photo I'm sharing with you. But this photo doesn't bring

Hello, kitty friends. Today I had the opportunity to sit on the porch of my house reviewing some work, when suddenly, my cats jumped up on my lap and stayed there, resting peacefully. This is something

Hello, coffee friends ☕ around the world. Today was one of those wonderful days where a group of friends gathered and decided to sit down and chat, sipping delicious coffee. We took the opportunity to

Hello, friends of the most refreshing drink in the world. Today I'm introducing you to my favorite beer among the recent imports to my country: Unlaguer. I decided to enter it in this week's contest. This