Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing

 I have a course with people from 9 geographical origins, including myself: US, PR, Lithuania, Catalonia, Galicia, Honduras, Venezuela, Iran, Brazil.  Two are Spain, and two are US, but still, it is highly diverse.   

 I wasn't even thinking I was asleep but I had a waking dream of following a dog who was showing me where to find his dog relatives, or human relatives of his owners.  It wasn't very clear.  

 There were two gatherings. One, me and some old high school friends. The other, in an adjoining room, my current friends, grouped together in larger numbers to protest the current administration.  I went in a for a few moments to the protest party, had a few beers, before going back. My high school friends were all but unrecognizable, and paid me little heed.  When I woke up I only remembered one of them, but she appeared differently in the dream, as another ethnicity.  I felt alienated from both group, but in different ways.  

A lot of Spanish music is flamenco-adjacent. In other words, it can be flamenquified easily.  Take "Anda jaleo." (Please take it.) There are constant flamenco versions of it, though it is a popular song, not part of the flamenco repertoire (originally). 

It is interesting that I am unable to find any trace of "Anda jaleo" before Lorca. In some sense, it is Lorca's song, though I'm sure he did not write it.  

"I miss our correspondences. They were always a highlight back in the day. Your intelligence and generosity always lifted me." 

 There's one Bousoño points out in Carnero and Gil de Biedma, maybe in Cerunda: the fourteen syllable line divided into 7 + 7, with one of the lines shortened to 6. 

Now we have units of 5, 6, and 7. 

"en aquellos momentos / de miedo y esperanzas"