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Every year, since 2013, I have launched the solidarity campaign LA LITERATURA ALIMENTA (“The Literature Feeds”) to raise money for some NGOs. During the last few years, we’ve done this with EDUCO, which guarantees a meal a day for those children who can not afford it at home. This year we wanted to organize our literary festival for solidarity again, but the pandemic has paralyzed us. It was clear that this time we couldn’t organize the party in person nor order the gadgets that moved people to make their donations. However, seeing the news and the long queues of those people who need help, we decided to launch the campaign anyway and take advantage of social networks so that everyone can participate. For that reason, this year we have decided to continue with our initiative LA LITERATURA ALIMENTA (LITERATURE FEEDS) in favor of FUNDACIÓ BANC DELS ALIMENTS, which globally helps all those families who need this support to have the basics to eat.

I have always believed that thinking about others is basic, since there are people who live in very precarious conditions and this confinement has made them fall into a pit that no one would like to be in. Our duty is to support each other so that as many people as possible can recover and not fall into poverty. For this reason, thanks to the help of MiGranoDeArena, we have started the challenge of raising 3,000 euros for FUNDACIÓ BANC DELS ALIMENTS. No matter how little you can donate, I hope that you can collaborate and help us to achieve our goal, because life goes round in circles and maybe one day it’s you who needs help. I know this is not a good time for anyone, but let’s think that those of us who have something can share it with those who have nothing, because life is about giving and receiving.

To finish, I just have to say that I hope to have the challenge accomplished in a short time, because I trust all of you who read my posts every week and I know that we all fight for a better world. So, we are waiting for your donation, even if it is small. In return, you will receive an eBook with 9 never-seen-before stories by our authors talking about the different emotions that move us in this life. Our authors have always participated in this initiative, for which I am very grateful. They know that it is true that literature feeds the soul, but also the heart, and they encourage you to participate in this beautiful challenge that consists of helping others. So, go to https://www.migranodearena.org/reto/la-literatura-alimenta and contribute your little grain of solidarity, because there’s only one life, but if you share, everything is always better. Thank you for believing that together we can make a better world. I believe it, and I try to do things like this to make it happen, will you help me?

This week’s blog post is special because, exceptionally, I’m not recommending any book, today I am asking you for a bit of charity. I’m very proud that one of the million ideas that run through  my mind, has finally come true, and today, November the 14^th we are celebrating LA LITERATURA QUE ALIMENTA’s fifth birthday. An idea I had while watching Educos’s advert, one of their first when they were getting popular, and as I have always loved helping, I thought that from the agency we could all join forces and fusion literature and charity, the perfect union. This is how this campaign was born, and thanks to all of those who follow us, our authors, loyal to our proposal to collect money each year for this NGO which strives every day to assure no kid is left without a warm plate a day by getting them food.

This publishing world keeps growing everyday with more and more people joining us, as editors, book sellers, readers, designers, and they help us in making this dream grow, step by step, so that we are able to collect more money and so be able to help those who need it the most. I’m really happy to see we have come a long way and we are not tired, we haven’t surrendered, on the opposite, every time I look more forward to preparing this charity party, and although it is not easy to reunite people, prepare the meeting, the details, and to think about the event, illusion is on top of all of this and seeing the power of this little drop is really worthy it and really does make me happy. It really moves me when I see the unconditional support of my friends, those who belong to the editorial world and those who don’t, to become part of this team, who are trying to help these families who are unable to give their children a warm plate. Although it may seem impossible there are families living under these conditions because, even though we may think economic crisis is over, it is not, and we must take conscience that there is people that do need help.

Life, for me, makes no sense if we don’t give what we have to those we love, those who need it. And it would not make sense if I didn’t Thank those who have helped and supported this little idea, directly coming from my heart, to become true and to become a Literary Party and charity in this literary world. So this afternoon I’m hoping to see many of this year’s T-shirts so that this year we can help more than 400 children. Let’s color this day black and yellow, the colors of our literary charity, to get a new record, and make of 2018 a year full of books that feed souls, that will, for sure, make us be better. Literature not only feeds wit, wisdom and humor, but also gives those who need it the most. LET’S MAKE A TOAST WITH A SMILE ON OUR FACES.

It’s Christmas again. And it’s a holiday that I like, that we’ve always enjoyed with our family and that has changed a little with time; we’ve had to adapt to new situations. When my grandmother was alive, we celebrated many holidays in her house, not because it had the best dining room, nor the best kitchen, on the contrary, but she liked to cook so much and did it so well, and so nonchalantly, that everything else wasn’t important, all that mattered was that we were together and we could enjoy the passion with which she did it, which I’m sure showed in the food she cooked, and that’s why everything was always so exquisite, like her, like her love for us, and how she was able to give us a bit of that magic with every spoonful of her lovingly cooked meal.  When she was no longer here, we had to divide the holidays, and even though we feel excited and hopeful it will never be the same, because my grandmother gave us magic, and you either have it or not.

It’s now been three years from the day when, sitting in front of the television and thinking of what I would cook for Christmas, and missing my grandmother, I saw the Educo add, and it made its way through to my heart. What the mother says to the daughter: “today we’ll have a magic sandwich for dinner, with bread and everything we can imagine in it”, it made me feel like I had to do something, I work in a field where we can find the kings of imagination and if that sandwich was filled with imagination I had to help fill it with some ham or real cheese.

It was the end of November, so if I wanted to do something, I had to be quick, I couldn’t think twice, and I found time where there was none to organize a charity party with the moto LITERATURE FEEDS. I put my whole team to work, which they happily did, and we designed a T-Shirt with our moto LITERATURE FEEDS to sell to the people in our sector, and to give all the money we made from them to Educo and their Lunchroom Scholarships.

The world of creators who let their imagination fly in order to make those who read them happier, to show them values through their pages, we were coming together to make an idea come true, one that had come to me while watching TV. That’s a good add, one that makes you react, that commercial made me create an entire literary and solidary movement in less than a month. Crazy? Maybe, but it was worth it, because it was a small success, because in that little time we were able to throw a party with all the authors from the house – they were brilliant – and ever since my Christmas gift is to those who need it, and I push people in this industry to do this as well.

We work in a field that’s always received a lot of criticism, they say we always ask for a lot but are never completely happy, that it seems like there’s something missing even if we have the privilege of working with what we want, and I thought that putting literature and charity together was a magnificent idea to show that we aren’t all narcissistic, we don’t only think of ourselves, it’s not true, and we can do things for others and we want to do them.

The last thing was to get help from those in the industry, those who maybe didn’t think like me. I couldn’t lead an entire campaign for literature to be more solidary on my own. But my team’s reaction, those of my friends, and of the authors from the house was excellent and we did it, and I think we’re still doing it because the second year we collaborated with Pallapupas, with a lot of other people making this possible, and this, which is already the third year, with the Afanoc foundation, with “Ponte la gorra” (wear the cap), which help families that have a child suffering from cancer at home. I hope this is also a success and we can make this party grow more and more. Now it’s not only the authors from the house and friends that come, but also editors and reporters, and we’ve even pulled in the people from Gràcia (the neighborhood where my agency is) to collaborate with us. It’s wonderful! This has turned big, and I hope it keeps growing because LITERATURE FEEDS, that we know, and it can feed so many things, that our job is infinite, that we can help, year after year, If everyone keeps supporting the cause and we think that this party should become one of the literary events of the year, an event where there are no prizes, but the goal of giving to those who need it the most, and not receiving anything in exchange. Just like my grandmother used to do for Christmas: she didn’t expect anything and she did it with all her heart. And I know she would be proud of me, of how her magic has helped me start a charity campaign for which I plan to fight and help those who dedicate their lives to others.

We do it too, we try to make the best stories so others can enjoy, we’re giving already, not only once a year, but with our everyday work, but if we add the possibility of throwing a party once a year, it’s a win-win situation, we’re giving a purpose to what we love the most, LITERATURE.

Thanks!

February starts, it is still winter, but I have always liked it, maybe because it is short, and it is always filled with literary novelties. Next week, one of the non-fiction books that I think can be a best-seller will arrive to the bookshops. GENIOTIPO by Tony Estruch.

The author says that everyone has a talent, a gift. Finding out what it is, we could focus our life on the direction we wish for and, therefore, enjoy a lot more what we do and how we do it. LOVING what you do is the secret to accomplish big achievements and for that, it is necessary knowing your passion and which type of genius you are, so you need to know your GENIOTIPO.

After ten years of research on human talent, in collaboration with experts from different disciplines, Tony Estruch presents the revolutionary theory of the GENIOTIPOS, a self-knowledge tool that will be the start of a new era in the personal development field, like ENEAGRAMA was on its day. Here, we take a step forward to develop what we have on the inside. To identify our GENIOTIPO, we need to identify our innate aptitudes, and this book offers us all the keys to discover it. With this, we will learn to develop our capacities to the maximum, and we will not only successfully achieve our purpose of life in the personal and professional fields, but also, we will comprehend better those around us, which I think is vital in this world we face after everything we have lived.

Tony Estruch reveals that we do not need to do especial things to be a genius, we only need to discover and feed what we already are. Our goal in life should be: BE HAPPY. Being passionate in what we dedicate our life, the things we do, our jobs, our hobbies, and the rest of activities that take a great part of our time, this is the key to be able to be happy. If you know your GENIOTIPO, you can open the door to that happiness that you long for and do not know how to find it. A practical and simple tool that opens a new world to us where we can only do well. I am a circle/triangle. How about you?

Loving what we do is the secret to achieve great achievements in life, and for that it is necessary to know which is our passion and our genius. No one is good at everything, but everyone is great at doing something, because all of us have an especial gift that makes us unique. To discover and develop that something especial is the purpose of this book. Because to unfold all your potential and offer it to the world, first you need to know which type of genius are you. You need to know your “geniotipo”.

After ten years researching about human talent with experts of multiple disciplines, Tony Estruch presents the revolutionary theory of the geniustips, a self-knowledge tool made to mark a new era in the world of personal development. To find our geniustip, we must identify our innate abilities, and this book, with numerous practical examples, stories and quizzes, shows us all the keys to achieve it.  With this, we will learn to develop at its fullest our abilities and we will not only achieve with success our purpose in life in the personal and professional areas, but we will also be able to better understand our family, friends, and colleagues. With a simple, direct and inspirational style, Tony Estruch shows us that we do not need to do anything especial to become geniuses; just discover and feed what we already are.