que Es ‘transparencia’

Here’s a story of the importance of message timing, exploring the right amount of opaque.

I don’t like it when Dad leaves me in the dark. Sometimes he tells me something that I wanna hear knowing full well he can’t deliver. Or hatching some plot to momentarily ditch this bitch but doesn’t share any of his plans with me. Lack of transparency is a graduate schoool form of lying.

It’s Navidad, Hermana took me and Dad to this quaint colonial town, Festival of Lights. Those from ‘Stone-Fruit Landia’ (Country of Coffee) do Navidad right.  It’s a time when Colombians truly eschew the trials, tribulations of their lives.  There’s this beautiful display, I ask Hermana what does that sign mean?

She shrugged her shoulders sighed.  “Transparency in your language.”  Que?  “Has Padre every deceived you?”  For sure, but only once in a while. Didn’t like it but wasn’t that bad. I suppose he did it for my own good.

Hermana said, “Us Colombianos have been deceived by our leadership FOREVER and it WAS SEVERE-BAD. They have the huevos to put up this billboard, Navidad of all times. “Oh now everything’s going to be transparent, a new age. we’re gonna change, it will get better.” MIERDA!!! I looked at Hermana, her disgust, It’s not going to be better is it.  Now she’s really pissed. 

As we head back into town she says, “If you and Padre intend to be here for a while you both need to learn the language, learn our culture.”