Thank you for inviting me.
It's nice to be here.
They teach us to prepare for the future.
I also come from a desert.
I always try to give a context of the place I come from.
I'm doing a book with other two writers there,
a compilation of quotes and I found this quote which I think
gives the idea of what it is.
It's by Richard Rodriguez, in his book Days
of Obligation, An Argument with my Mexican Father.
It says, "Tijuana and San Diego are not
in the same historical time zone.
Tijuana is poised at the beginning
of an industrial age, a Dickensian city with palm
trees.
San Diego is a post-industrial city
of high-impact plastic and despair diets, and palm trees.
San Diego faces west, looks out to the sea.
Tijuana stares north, as toward the future.
San Diego is the future, strange secular, soulless.
San Diego is the past, guarding its quality of life.
Tijuana is the future.
Taken together as one, Tijuana and San Diego
form the most fascinating new city
in the world, a city of world-class irony."