Naci

Un dia cualquiera
en un lugar cualquiera...
y morire en un dia cualquiera
en cualquier lugar...
pero no importa,
porque he vivido
una vida singular!

Tus Ojos

son dos ventanas
al cielo negro de tu alma...!

Hoy

es tan efimero como una burbuja de jabon!

Amigo...

Que palabra mas dulce
para describirte...

El Verbo Amar

Ya fue inventado...
hay que conjugarlo

Escribo

porque se me pega la gana...

Escribo para escaparme de ti,
de lo usual, cotidiano, tedioso...
del dia tras dia, del igual a todo...
Escribo para crear con palabras
un rincon en el jardin
donde esconderme y reir,
soñar, gritar, mentir,
jugar a sentir y amar...

romper el cielo con mis alas!

ya te dije,
escribo porque se me pega la gana.

Anoche

Descubri que Dios
tiene formas y maneras de movernos
de usarnos para sus proyectos...
que nos corresponde
estar atentos y escuchar
cuando nos llama...
y pense en Pedro
y en Paul...y en todos ellos...
que magnifico oido tuvieron!

Hablando de Cafe

se me antoja beberte
hasta la ultima gota
como si fueras veneno
para matar mis derrotas...

Mi piel es negra, china, blanca e india...
mesclada con el dulce de la caña
y la textura de la miel,
con la sal del mar ardiente
y la sencillez del clavel,
tiene tonos sensuales
entre tierra y cafe...

Pense

que ya te habia olvidado
hasta que recorde tu aroma
de colonia barata...
pense que ya eras pasado
hasta que mencione tu nombre
y un oleaje de instintos
despertaron mi alma...
tu nombre tiene el poder
de enredarse en mi mente
y deshacer mis defensas...
hechizero que hechizas
con tu sonrisa fresca
y tu mirada de aguila...
como quisiera...pense
que equivocada estaba.

Silencio

que se detenga el sonido creado por el hombre
y se escuche unicamente el sonido de la tierra...
Que belleza!

Volverte a Ver

que ganas
de volverte a ver
de respirar tu aroma
con olor a cafe
de sentir tu presencia
cerca de mi piel...
aunque sea de lejos
que ganas tengo
de volverte a ver...

Inigualable

El ser humano es inigualable...
no hay un solo animal que se le paresca...
siempre con ansias de mas y mas...
insaciable necesidad de ser reconocido
de brillar...de competir...de expandirse
en el horizonte del olvido...
porque teniendo tanto, queriendo tanto,
no tiene absolutamente nada.

Invitacion

Te invito a la vida
a mirar al espejo y darte cuenta
que eres un ser humano con sueños,
esperanzas y deseos,
como todos los demas.
Deja de esconderte
y empieza a vivir ya.

La Tarde...

esta nublada
el viento jugetea con las hojas
y los arboles danzan al vaiven
del tiempo...
me recuerdan mis sueños
que se han quedado
colgados en un rincon del tiempo...

Reflections on Ethics

Reflections on Ethics
As we come to an end I look back at the past several weeks and I conclude that this was a very enjoyable class. It was better that MMC 540, because by now I got a grip of some of the gadgets needed to navigate the class. (Thanks to that previous class, I must confess)
It is interesting to study Ethics from a different standpoint than the traditional perspective of the Greeks or the Ethical Relativism, for example. In todays’ globalized business world it makes sense to attempt to find a general rule where everyone can agree in order to manage ethics in the workplace. Although I agree that this system may help to guide employees in the quest for ethical behavior, back in my mind I still have that tiny voice arguing that it is in the individual self where the roots of ethics really laid. We can set all the possible rules to help to establish an ethical structure, but ultimately it is the individual the one who chooses to follow or not those rules. There is where the true ethics rest.
Several days ago I was watching an exciting basketball game between Bellevue University and another college. One of the other team players used his shoulder to push really hard one of the B.U. players. I stand up very upset and screamed “that’s wrong, you pushed him” The referees caught the foul and the game continued its course. Later on during the game I noticed one of our players pushing a player of the other team. The referees missed that one. Did I stand up and screamed “foul?” What do you think? Why not? It would have been the ethical thing to do, right? Bellevue University won that game and of course I was happy. But after I walked out I started to analyze myself. I thought how did I let myself get so upset about it? And why can I be blind to our own team wrong doing but I will rush to point out the other team errors?
Sometimes it seems like we justify ourselves by assuming that everyone also do the same. Does something become acceptable just because everybody does it? Then the Holocaust was o.k.? After all the Germany Nazi thought it was O.K. to “purify” their race. They thought that the Jews were taking over their country, over their jobs, over their lives. They justified their crimes by assuming that they were superior, and that the Jews and other races were inferior. They did enacted laws to protect their citizens’ rights, laws that violated Jews essential human rights.
Was then the Apartheid an ethical behavior? A minority that felt threatened by a majority decided that was o.k. to keep a separation line between blacks and whites and they dictated laws to insure that separation. Their laws kept Nelson Mandela lock for most of his life for fear of his leadership.
Was Slavism a right thing to do? After all there was laws on place that say it was legal for one human been to be owned by another human been!
I found an interesting article that highlights these points.
“Being ethical is clearly not a matter of following one's feelings… following his or her feelings may recoil from doing what is right…..Nor should one identify ethics with religion…Being ethical is also not the same as following the law…laws, like feelings, can deviate from what is ethical. Our own pre-Civil War slavery laws and the old apartheid laws of present-day South Africa are grotesquely obvious examples of laws that deviate from what is ethical. Finally, being ethical is not the same as doing "whatever society accepts." society can become ethically corrupt. Nazi Germany is a good example of a morally corrupt society.”
The authors continue their essay answering the question about what is the Ethics. They argue that Ethics is two things…”a well-founded standards about what is correct and what is not... that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues.” Their second definition concerns to "the study and development of one's ethical standards… the continuous effort of studying our own moral beliefs and our moral conduct, and striving to ensure that we, and the institutions we help to shape, live up to standards that are reasonable and solidly-based".
From this perspective, learning ethics it is a way to been ethical. We have gotten several good tools in this class that will prove to be very helpful not only in the work-place but also in our daily living.
I’ll add to those previous definitions that been ethical is also spreading the word. Teaching our children the tools to be ethical, it is also a way to practice ethics. Hopefully they can build a better society. It has been a pleasure to interact with all of you sharing and learning from each other’s experiences. See you next semester. To read more about the article cited go to the link below.
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/whatisethics.html

Get the Emotions Under Control Before Making Decisions!-week 10

In their book “Judgment in Managerial Decision Making” Bazerman and Moore indicate that in order to make better decisions we should follow this steps “decision analysis tools, acquired expertise, de-bias your judgment, reason analogically, take an outsider’s view, and understand biases in others” (Moore, 2,009)
I found this section particularly interesting because it give me an starting point to make better decisions. I personally feel that acquired expertise, debias your judgement, take an outsider’s view and understanding biases in others are steps that truly can help in the process of decision making. However, there is an important area that is not mentioned as part of the steps and I think it should be included: walk away of a situation and get control of your emotions before even starting the process of making a decision.
Through out the “Ethics and Decision Making” course we have been hearing that the area of the brain that reacts intensively when making decisions is the area related to emotions. In other words, emotions play an important role in the decisions we take. Before we can reach the point where we remember to use Bazerman’s and Moore’s steps we need to be aware of our emotions and get them under control.
Last night, for example, I let my emotions guide my decisions and I totally disregarded anything also. I received an e-mail that I did not appreciate. I replied expressing my mind without debiasing my judgement, nor did I took an outsider’s view, and I honestly did not care to understand the biases in the other person. In fact, I purposely choosed to answer the way I did. Perhaps I felt that my reaction was justified, but the reality is that I am in the communication’s program to aquire expertise and apply that knowledge to every area of my life, including personnal relationships.
I look forward to apply the skills I am learning in this course, but I realize it is not an easy task. It takes a serious focusing to detect our own biases, and also to understand other people’s biases. I only can hope that by acquiring expertise we move one step forward into the process of better decision making.

De vez en cuando

te metes en mis sueños
y te amo a ratitos
pero luego despierto
y solo tu olor
queda en mi cama...
mmm soñarte otra vez
quizas mañana...!

Respuesta

El amor existe? Me preguntas…
Existe el aire que respiras y no vez?
Existe la paz de un atardecer?
Cual paz? Me preguntas…
Como sabes que es la paz?
Es la quietud mientras el sol
Se desdobla entre los arboles
El cantar de los pajaros celebrando
la llegada de la noche
la brisa que sopla suavemente
y aunque no la vez
la sientes en tu cara…
o es que acaso, me preguntas,
sera el cerebro quien escoje
sentir la brisa y quizas,
no existe tal cosa
llamada brisa…
ah! Ya esta aqui la noche
oscura y tenebrosa…
ya se escuchan los grillos
conversando y las estrellas
en lo alto estan brillando…
pero espera, tal vez
eso tampoco exista
esta solo en nuestras cabezas…

Aqui esta mi respuesta:
el amor es la escencia
del ser humano
y tal vez amigo
esta sea la verdad,
si no existe el amor
tu y yo seamos
pura falsedad.

Una Vez Mas

Siento ganas de ti
de beberte una mañana
como quien bebe un cafe
para renovarse el alma
me corre en el cuerpo ganas
de sentirte como el sol
cuando calienta mi cara...

Pero si eres el agua del rio

entonces quiero sumergirme
en tu corriente
bajar a las profundidades
de tu cuerpo
y respirar lentamente
para ahogar mis pulmones
con tu vida!

Te miro en la distancia

y me pareces ahora tan lejano
inperceptible,inalcansable
como los copos de nieve
que se deshacen en mi mano
o el agua de un rio
que se escapa en la corriente
y aunque se que existes
que respiras y vives
en este mismo planeta
pareces que no existieras!

An Insight of Four Weeks of Ethics

The battle between right and wrong seems to be a simple matter of black and white. No room for grays. However, as we move into our fifth week of classes we are learning that when comes to ethics there are many shades of grays that influences the process of decision making. According to Jones and Ferrill every culture, country, religion, and profession have their own guidelines about what is considered acceptable or unacceptable. This characteristic, they said, makes the teaching of ethics a difficult task. They suggest that “The Seven Layers of Integrity” is an effective tool to teach ethics. They based their argument in the fact that the Law is the one layer of integrity where is not room for ambiguity. The Law is a clear and anyone who shares The Land is under The Law.
In my opinion “The Seven Layers of Integrity” is an interesting approach to the teaching of ethics. I question however,the total absenteeism of the great Greeks whose thinking helped to shape the notions of right and wrong. I suppose that it could be argued that the Greeks did not have to deal with corrupt corporations and online leaks, and that today's generations are different; therefore we need to create new ways that work for them. That is a valid argument.
Certainly today's generation have in their hands a heavy load of mistrust, broken dreams, back stabbing, shameless behaviors…all great elements for a successful soap opera: The Enron Scandal, the Tobacco companies and their manipulation of the truth as we saw it in “The Insider”, The Wiki Leaks, the crisis of the house market caused by predatory lending, the credit card crisis...should I continue? I may run out of paper!
The issue that I find interesting, scary, and shocking is the one found in chapter 12 of “The Seven Layers of Integrity” regarding the use of electronic communication. I guess as we go deeper into discussions I realize that the danger of electronic communication is a real threat. In fact, the awareness of this danger is helping me to re-evaluate my thoughts about this type of communication. I think this is actually positive because is stimulating my awareness. I also find interesting the exchange of ideas in the discussion board, it is enlighten and challenging at the same time.