#cuba

Something, most certainly, happens to a diver’s emotions underwater. It is not merely a side effect of the pleasing, vaguely erotic sensation of water pressure on the body. Nor is it alone the peculiar sense of weightlessness, which permits a diver to hang motionless in open water, observing sea life large as whales around him; not the ability of a diver, descending in that condition, to slowly tumble and rotate in all three spatial planes. It is not the exhilaration from disorientation that comes when one’s point of view starts to lose its “lefts” and “down” and gains instead something else, a unique perception that grows out of the ease of movement in three dimensions. It is not from the diminishment of gravity to a force little more emphatic than a suggestion. It is not solely exposure to an unfamiliar intensity of life. It is not a state of rapture with the bottomless blue world beneath one’s feet…it is some complicated mix of these emotions, together with the constant proximity of real terror. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#diving #intensity #nature #ocean #scuba-diving

Cuando vayamos al mar yo te diré mi secreto: Me envuelve, pero no es ola... Me amarga..., pero no es sal... ↗

— Dulce Maria Loynaz

#poesia #poetry #spanish #spanish

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less. ↗

— Max Baucus

#agricultural #attempt #cuba #keep #less

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#about #accepted #already #being #century

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#away #ending #hussein #incubator #regime

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community. ↗

— Larry Harvey

#community #confrontation #desert #goodwill #grow

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator. ↗

— Bob Kerrey

#cuba #dictator #get #needs #rid

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#back #cuba #europe #forgotten #grandparents

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#bit #cuban #even #feel #great

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff. ↗

— Erich Leinsdorf

#congressman #cuba #down #everything #had