A río revuelto

Berkeley, Thursday, April 10, 2025 11:44 am

This is a terrible quote with a terrible connotation, but so true. I guest I do not know about the quote, and I haven’t done much fishing either.

But it is true fishing in trouble waters might be convenient for fishing. Is it?

Regardless the connotation, which I want to learn more, I really like and appreciate how many quotes we have about rivers. Have we disconnected so much from our rivers than those quotes are some how distant now?

Do we get the fish only, even fresh, from the fish market, where we might not know much about the fishing process?

Is the fish mainly farmed currently?

Looks like I have a job.

I guest I am posting this without much clear purpose. But to indicate more about quotes related with water, rivers, and beards.

To give a bit more of relevance to this quotes, I will post some additional quotes/mottoes and literal text, which I want to understand more, or from which I have drew a few conclusions:

When you see your neighbor’s beard being shaved, put your own in soak.

This means if your neighbors house was stolen, you might rather prepare for a similar misfortune. Or in any context if you see a misfortune that happen to your neighbor, it might happen to you as well.

I guess it is quite relevant to live in community, and to communicate in community.

I know it by heart. Sometimes, I have questioned this sentence, and I am using my own logic in here. But the term of remember make it sense. It is a literal translation of “acordarse” or “recordar”.¹

In Spanish the word comes from the latin word cor, cordis, which is corazon or heart. In case that I know. I guess I will check the definition of corazón in Spanish.

The etymoplogy from corazón, which is the Spanish word for heart, is long, but since its appearance in the latin language, the word is cor.²

Thus, since acordarse or recordar, while meaning remembering, they are connected to the heart latin word not with the latin word for mind or memory, the translation of knowing by heart makes sense.

1. Real Academia de la Lengua Española, Acordar. https://www.rae.es/tdhle/acordar

2. Maglia, Javier Botella de. 2004. Etimología del Corazón. Revista Española de Cardiología. Retreived on April 10, 2025 12:07 Pm from https://www.revespcardiol.org/es-etimologia-del-corazon-articulo-13059725