carmen fernandez de cordoba

Entering the universe of this Alicante couple is to step into the very essence of their city: a space bathed in light and open to the beauty of the Mediterranean Sea. It is no coincidence that Juan L.’s earliest memories recall the clean, freshly washed streets where he played as a child—perhaps a reflection of what this town truly is: hardworking, luminous, and accustomed to making each day a new beginning, earning one’s bread and starting all over again. A town that lives in the present....

Among all the grandchildren, she had been the General’s favorite. Perhaps it was because she was the firstborn, or perhaps because, in her clear gaze and perfect ringlets, he sensed the beginning of something new — a life born free from the shadows of the past. In that serene child of light, he found the full stop and new paragraph of his own story. She embodied the living proof of life’s resilience and the transforming power of time — time that flows and slowly erases the traces of wounded...

Perhaps humanity lost something essential when it stopped raising children in community. In those early times, children grew up held by...