Spanish love letter contest
"People hardly ever write love letters anymore," says Jose Luis Munoz, Spanish National Radio's Cuenca bureau chief. But thanks to the bureau's annual love letter contest, the tradition continues.
Shall I compare this contest to a summer's breeze? No, because it is not light and frothy like the wind. It is not to be tossed about gently like so many flowers in a meadow, or tested haphazardly like so many beans in a coffee-maker. This contest is meant to be held. For without the holding, it would not occur. It would be nothing, a grain of sand amidst millions on a dusky beach, but for the keys of embrace and passion.
Only through embrace and passion — two words similar in the strength needed for utterance and the enunciation needed for completion — do we find ourselves gazing, lost within ourselves, at the phonetic simplicity of love. The didactic qualities of sound show the sonic energy to be language's muse, whether read within our hearts or aloud.
Spanish National Radio, I kiss you!
