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Welcome to the Dario O'Donnells homepage
"...y sentí Buenos Aires.
Esta ciudad que yo creí mi pasado
es mi porvenir, mi presente;
los años que he vivido en Europa son ilusorios,
yo estaba siempre (y estaré) en Buenos Aires."
"... And I felt Buenos Aires.
This city that I thought my past
is my future, my present;
the years I've lived in Europe are illusory,
I was always (and will be) in Buenos Aires. "
My life in Sweden, my heart in Argentina:
My two countries:   Four world famous Argentine
Argentina, mi querido país, que a menudo es sobrevalorado por sus habitantes. Los argentinos solemos decir lo que no pensamos para generar una discusión
Argentina
, my country ...


Mi segundo país, en el que su gente, a menudo calla lo que piensa para evitar la discusión
Suecia
, my second country

 

"El mudo" Carlitos Gardel. Apasionado, individualista, ganador. La gente sigue diciendo que cada día canta mejor!...
Carlitos
Evita, un símbolo argentino, fanática, apasionada, individualista, argentina...
Evita
El Ché, apasionado, idealista, fanático, individualista, argentino...
El Che
Algún día tus hijos y los hijos de tus hijos, preguntarán por él. ¡Amamos al Diego jugador, no al aspirante a ténico!
Diego

 


Juntos podemos!...
Argentina, a passion... 


My addresses and telephone numbers:
Sweden Argentina Spain
Address:
Home phone:
Tel work:
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Home phone:
Cellular phone:
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Litsbyvägen 13
187 46 Täby
Suecia

+46  (08) 742 05 11
(desde fuera de Suecia
sin el "0". Casi nunca estoy en casa)
+46 (08) 568 91563
(desde fuera de Suecia
sin el "0". Siempre conectado a este número)
+46  (0) 7366200 00
(desde fuera de Suecia
sin el "0". Siempre conectado a este número)
Pueyrredón 2130 - Piso 3  dto. A
C1119 ACR Capital
Argentina
+54 11 4807 8563 +54 9 11 3141 4806 (si se llama desde otro país fuera de Argentina)
15 3141 4806 (si se llama desde Buenos Aires)
+34  627 845 222

Mails:

do@telia.com   od@friberga.se   odonnell101@hotmail.com Skype:     odonnell101 

My job:

www.friberga.se Mörbyhöjden 24
182 32 Danderyd
 od@friberga.se fax +46 (08) 568 91501

Twenty photographs and a life:
  Todo cambia Todo cambia (con letra)  

My years
in
Argentina

Darío bebito
I was small and cute. What I have in my hand is a bear and not a doll!


Darío bebé
I was also baby. At that time, had not thought about doing this page



1960 in Rosario, Argentina




1963 life was football
and the school



Darío en 1964
1964 in Rosario





1970 December 31 dressed to go to get my ID card...   they were going to give me? ..

 

 

 

My years in the world ... uprooting


1976 in Paris, France. Seventies. revolution, repression ... time of horror and death, police and terror personified the Falcons Fords. They were the masters of life and death. It started slowly, but accelerated in 1975, a year before the military coup, when barbarism is installed in the argentine army and the "terror of state" in Argentina

Todo el año 1977 estuve en un Kibutz en Israel. Allí conocí a Lena
1977 in Israel, in Kibutz Metzer.There I met Lena













En noruega 1980
1980 in Noruega, in May, just days before
the birth of
Nadia.












1987 in Laos. Between 1984 and 1989 we lived and worked in the capital of Laos, Vientiane. In this picture we are in Beijing, capital of China Christian left, me in the middle and Nadia on my right . (June 1887)






En Vietnam, 1988
1988 in Vietnam. Between 1984 and 1989, I traveled to Vietnam several times to install computers at the Embassy of Sweden Hanoi









Darío en 1989
1990, in Swden















1991 in Tanzania. Between 1991 and 1996 I lived and worked in Dar es Salaam, capital of Tanzania.











 


1996 in Tanzania, climbing Kilimanjaro (5986 m). Here I am in Mawenzi Hut (4600 mts) Three times I climbed. Two arrived the summit, which is called "Uhuru Peak", called "The roof of Africa"

En la casa de los padres de Anki en 1999
1999 in Estocolmo 










2000 en la República Dominicana. I had just entered the third millennium celebrated in Puerto Plata






2007 in Buenos Aires. After 85 years turned to snow in Buenos Aires on July 10, 2007






2008 in Suecia










2009, in El Campello, Spain









2009 España, at "Casa de la Cultura" theater of Campello, preparing the microphone to give the speech commemorating the tenth anniversary of student exchanges between Sweden och Campello

  Gracias a la vida  

Presentation:

This is me:
Male, Argentine and Feminist!

(Though I suppose some will consider parts of this presentation as "politically incorrect")

Lead the crowd, don't follow it!

This is who I am, or at least, this is how I perceive myself to be:
I am 750 years younger than Stockholm, the spotless city in which I have studied and worked since the 22nd of December of 1977.

I am free by vocation, and genetically rebellious, impulsive, creative, enterprising, steady, committed to my endeavors and very competitive. At times sympathetic, often annoying, but always efficient. Much better as a soloist than a member of an orchestra.

I am a lover of life, women and love without love; I am passionate about all the pleasures that life has to offer. Pleasures that time, inexorably and cruelly, deprive us of bit by bit. I don't love work, but I love my work.

I was reared on the shores of the Rio de la Plata and the Parana River, two cities in which the project of my life began to take flight during my first 24 years: Buenos Aires, Rosario, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires... I'm a "porteño".

An Argentine as always and Swedish like never before, I have finally understood the inexistence of the absolute. I was an uncompromising fanatic during the 1970's -my time of suicidal idealism, in which I, entirely delirious, divided humanity into comrades and reactionaries, friends and enemies; I survived.

Today I try to be tolerant and analytical, dispassionate and rational. I was previously the bearer of all answers, today the bearer of all questions.

I continue to, as always, manifest my truths, only now, in stark contrast to the years of my youth, I express them knowing that they are merely my truths, of the here and now, and do not intend whatsoever to impose them on anyone else. By no means are they absolute or eternal.

 

The intolerants, a threat to peace:
Each individual beholds the right to think as they wish, and the unquestionable obligation to respect the thoughts of others.

Each human being has the inalienable right to freedom of expression and the liberty of thought. I claim as my own the famous words of a great thinker of the French revolution: "I abhor your views, but am prepared to give my life in defense of your right to express them".

I do not pretend to claim that men are better or worse as a result of thinking differently. Worse are the intolerant and narrow minded, the ones that discard and cannot accept the existence of ideas different to their own. The sectarians. These fanatics, irrespective of ideology are always a threat to peace, and guilty of all wars.

 

With regard to every individual:
I am a fervent believer in the potential of the individual. Whilst I don't believe that all men are equal, I do believe that every man has rights. All men ought to have the same opportunities, and they ought to be equal before the law. So far, these principles have been nothing but empty formulations in a plethora of preambles and national constitutions. Perhaps, one day, mankind will rectify this shortfall.

I believe everyone is the architect of their own destiny; that strong as well as weak men exist. Destinies forged by the strong tend to be more illustrious than those forged by the weak; it's a fact of life and not an injustice. I believe that you reap what you sow.

The differences to which I allude do not make us inferior or superior, merely different, unique beings. Luckily it is so.

Women:
They provide pleasure and pain. With them we ought to be honest, respectful, give as well as receive satisfaction, but always evade falling in love. When the process of falling in love reaches its inevitable end -these processes are nothing more than ephemeral chemical-hormonal reactions- the enchantment caused by 'falling in love' disappears. At that moment emerges the need for commitment, and with that commitment appears conflict and the inevitable separation.

It is better to sleep with all of them without falling in love with any of them. I think the reverse of this proposal is equally legitimate for women. "When we got married, we change the admiration of many women by the criticism of one."

The women come and go or. Alone we are born, and alone we will die. The women who give us least problems are probably, those who have more problems: those who sell themselves.

 

The children, the only genuine love:
I believe that women cause more problems than happiness and children more happiness than difficulties.

The only genuine and unconditional love that exists is the one we feel for our children. We generate our children and we belong to them, but they belong to themselves and to a time that is not ours. We can guide them and we can give them our opinions, but the decision-making is exclusively reserved to them, never to us.

 

Homosexuality:
Homosexuals should have the right to live with their inclinations and identities, but their ostentations, propaganda, or provocateurs "pride festivals" are not necessary.
I believe that they should be respected and should not be discriminated against unfairly; but I was born in a society that taught me that the natural relationships take place between men and women. I still believe that.

I think that coexistence between same-sex couples should have legal protection and civil unions should be allowed but I oppose the redefinition of matrimony. To allow them to adopt children is madness.

As legislated in practically every country in the world and indicated by all religious beliefs, according to the conscience of the big majority of human beings, according to the traditions of all societies at all times and according to what is universally accepted as natural, the institution of marriage should remain an exclusive legitimacy to the legal union between women and men. I think if we decide to redefine matrimony, we will damage family and children.

 

I am a feminist:
I am a feminist. I defend equal rights between men and women in all its aspects, but I disagree with the fundamentalist positions of some small groups of extreme masculinized women.

I defend equality, but I am opposed to the revanchist projects of "reversed oppression" that "the gender feminists" are looking for.

The differences between men and women are so obvious that I cannot include myself between those who proclaim equalities that I do not understand. I am not insinuating a superiority which of course does not exist, only noting the existence of irrefutable differences. Luckily it is so.

I am a "feminist of equity", but I do believe that many of these groups of women that shout through the streets, those “men haters", have harmed the purposes they claim to defend. With their extreme and absurd positions, these women have managed to "de-feminize" women. They often shout with vehemence: "men are animals" or "women who go to bed with a man are traitors to her class" at the rallies they punctually attend.

These neo-marxists, resentful, hostile, furious, who look like men and are always ugly, do not want to improve the situation for women; they are working to separate women from man.

Men must be encouraged to publicly denounce these extremists. It is our right and obligation to do so. We must regain our right to say what we think about the actions of these hysterical masculinized "gender feminists".

I say: Yes to equality of rights between men and women! Yes to equity feminism! Yes to legal and moral equality of the sexes! Yes to fair treatment for women and men! Yes to the absence of discrimination! And... No to revengims of hate-men women! No! to the declaration of war on nature led by the proponents of the "new perspective of gender feminists"!

 

Thirty years of Swedish and an eternity of Argentina:
I have thirty years of Swedish and an eternity of Argentina. My first country is Argentina that is the land that gave me life and the place where I grew up. Sweden is my second country. I will be eternally grateful to this wonderful country that has embraced and taken care of me since 1976, when a group of murderers and criminals illegally took possession of mine.

Sweden received me and gave me its language. In Sweden I formed a family; I learned Swedish values; I was a university leader; I became a professional; I educated their youth and enjoyed its beautiful women; I led Latin-American people in Sweden; I generated news; I was in the newspapers; I obtained professional recognition. I married, I divorced, and lived with others womans and I separated. I have two wonderful children and I made several turns around the world.

In addition to a good standard of living, Sweden gave me something basic called security. However, it never made me happy. Did I write happy? ... Does happiness exist? ...

De los suecos, lo mejor, es su capacidad de planearlo todo; lo peor, su incapacidad de modificar en algo lo planeado.

While Sweden and its society generate in my heart a profound sense of tenderness and gratitude, the love that I learned to feel as a child for Argentina and its people, has remained unchanged over the years. Despite the thousands of magnificent and unforgettable memories that I saved in Sweden during these decades, Argentina continues to be my country, because there is my childhood, my people, my language, my values, my codes, my jokes, my genes, the national song that I know, my flag and my identity.

Sweden has my body; Argentina, my soul; England, my children; Fribergaskolan my time.

Others views:
I think second place is always the first loser; I think that any past time was worse; I think nobody gives nothing for anything and I think that every man has a price: "What is lacking is not street-walkers, only financiers" from the Argentine film "Nine queens".


Mi madre

lala
Amanda, mi querida madre

Mi abuelo y mi bisabuelo:



Mi amado abuelo Tatá, Alcides,
de niño y su padre Carlos,
mi bisabuelo. (1910) en Coronda

Mi abuela

mam
  17 de octubre de 1976,
    adiós Argentina... o hasta
                               pronto!... Aquí con Lala, mi
                               abuela, una de las pocas
                               mujer que me amaron...


Christian has just received his second masters degree
at the age of 23:


Fragmento de "A mis hermanas" de Rafael Obligado (1851–1920)

...Ingrato, ingrato si el recuerdo suyo
   Arranco al corazón,
Si yendo en pos del oropel mundano,
El hombre olvida lo que el niño amó!"

Nadia, Chirstian y Lena, mayo 2005
Christian has just received his second masters degree at the age of 23; a "Master of Engineering" from the University of Durham with an average of 10 and a "Master in Economics" from the University de Cambridge -Girton College- (May 2005). Only 23 years old with two university degrees and two graduate degrees (two masters). How was it done? ... He studied between 10 and 14 hours per day 365 days a year for 6 years. (Here beside his sister Nadia and very proud mother Lena. (Cambridge May 2006).


English friends, the Falkland Islands
are Argentine, return it!

THE FALKLAND


In December 1974, 18
years before the Falklans war
in 1982, I volunteered to
recover the Falkland Islands, through a military action. This campaign was organized by
ASI Magazine


At the summit of Kilimanjaro in 1992, 1994 and 1996:


1996. Here I am with Christian trying to reach the summit of Kiliminjaro at the base of Kibo Hut at 4750 meters above sea level. At midnight we would try the final assault to the summit of this impressive mountain.

 



 

  Song of Kilimanjaro y Jambo, jambo bwana  

5895 meters above sea level, on "The Roof of Africa"

Aquí estoy en la cumbre del Kilimanjaro. La sonrisa es forzada, el sacrificio enorme, la alegría por el objetivo logrado es genuina.
Between December 1991 and June 1997 I lived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's capital. In this period I climbed 3 times the Kilimanjaro. Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and if we count from the center of the earth, being about Ecuador, is also the highest in the world. Kilimanjaro climb is no easy task, two of every thousand people die in the attempt. From 3000 meters is short of oxygen and becomes extremely difficult to climb. I tried three times and reached the summit on two occasions: on 19 February 1992 at 9.32 and on March 3, 1994, at 9 pm. Also tried it in 1996, but was not the same motivición and Christian who was with me had to go down, so I got a good excuse to go down and finish suffer the tortuous climb.


To think and reflect:

I recommend watching this video:

 

Life lesson from Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science at the
Univesidad Carnegie Mellon Pittsuburg::


  I invite you to be moved by the lesson of life of this American professor who spent the last months of his life to spread his enthusiasm and zest for life to his three young children and his students. He was 47 years and in September 2007 received the terrible news that her pancreatic cancer would allow him to live only by a handful of months. He died in July 2008. Click here to listen.  

 

¡Piu Avanti!

(Almafuerte 1854-1917)

No te des por vencido, ni aun vencido,
no te sientas esclavo, ni aun esclavo;
trémulo de pavor, piénsate bravo,
y arremete feroz, ya mal herido.
Ten el tesón del clavo enmohecido
que ya viejo y ruin, vuelve a ser clavo;
no la cobarde estupidez del pavo
que amaina su plumaje al primer ruido.
Procede como Dios que nunca llora;
o como Lucifer, que nunca reza;
o como el robledal, cuya grandeza
necesita del agua y no la implora...
Que muerda y vocifere vengadora,
ya rodando en el polvo, tu cabeza!

ALBERTO EINSTEIN ON THE CRISIS:

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The positive side of things: Do not pretend that things will change if we keep doing the same.

The crisis is the greatest blessing that can happen to people and countries since the crisis brings progress. Creativity is born of anxiety as the day comes from the dark night. It is in crisis that invention, discovery and major strategies are born.

He who overcomes crisis, surpasses himself without being overcome.

To blame the crisis for failures is to neglects the own talent and respects more problems than solutions.

The real crisis is the crisis of incompetence. The problem of people and countries is laziness to find solutions to their problems.

There is no crisis without challenge, and without challenges, life is a routine, a slow death.

Without crisis there is not merit. It is in the crisis which show the very best of each one, because without crisis any wind is a caress.

Talk of crisis is to promote it, and be silent in the crisis is to exalt conformism. Instead of this we shoud work hard. Get it over with the only menacing crisis that exist: the tragedy of not wanting to fight to overcome it.

 

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Täby municipality, my place in Sweden:

Täby today is a modern municipality with a sound economy and good prospectives for future development. Our close proximity to the capital Stockholm, the archipelago and the Baltic Sea as well as Arlanda International Airport provide many advantages. Situated approximately half way between Stockholm and Arlanda, it takes less than 20 minutes from Täby to reach either destination.

Täby has excellent public services, schools and leisure venues, very efficient transportation facilities plus an abundant and wide range of shops and other service centres.

Despite being a relatively small municipality in terms of area, Täby has a population of over 60,000 and numerous accessible areas with woods and lakes.

Under the protection of "allemansrätt" (the ancient Swedish legal right of access to private land and open country), there are ample opportunities for walking and rambling freely in our green open spaces to enjoy the countryside.

Prehistoric times are also still very much in evidence in Täby. House terraces, graves, stonewalls and old cattle tracks dating from the days when Iron Age farmers tilled their land almost 2000 years ago are still to be found in the fields. In Täby Church from the 13th Century, admirable items of interest include well-preserved ceiling paintings, by Albertus Pictor in 1480, that are imaginary and decorative. Read more...

Mamá posando frente al Obelisco
Mom posing in front of the
Obelisk of Buenos Aires
in August 2008
Football and some photos from yesterday:
Football, the blessed football....
Sweden, eliminated us from the 2002 World coup

Celebrating my birthday in June 2002 in Danderyd, in rector Ann Sjöbergs home. That day we had been eliminated by Sweden at the 2002 World Cup
Darío, antes de un partido de fútbol en 1975
Allways football; before a football match in a neighborhood of Buenos Aires













19 years ... I'd like to have them again... (1971)in Necochea











1973 T-shirtRosario Central, 6 AM in the morning and
always without sleep...











Mario Focarile, I, and Tito Piñeiro in Necochea in 1971. "The ball under the foot and the game is our" the "fat" Jorge Silvini, our football coach at that time, used to say to us before every match.








Mamá, mi
abuelo y yo


Con el abuelo Tatá, mamá el
5 de marzo de 1956
en Buenos Aires


Mi madre i yo en Buenos Aires
1956



Miriam, Lili y yo en 1959



Noviembre de 1976, despidiendo a José Messina que se va a Italia


Chau país, 17 de octubre 1976




1987. en Pekin, China. Con Lena, Nadia, Christian y el presidente Mao en la entrada a la Ciudad Prohibida

 

Tercer milenio:


Aquí comencé el nuevo
milenio, en la
República Dominicana.
(1 enero 2000)

                           Annika G.             
Una de las novias del ayer,  la                           Yoli, una loca linda valenciana, de Silla, 2003...                                       Otra de mis mujeres del                    Daniela, "Bortita", buena mina, inteligente,
tercera... en 1971. La primera Silvia           
                                                                                             ayer, una de las                          fuerte, 2001-2002
Márquez (1968), la segunda                                                                                                               últimas... en serio... 2001
Alicia Aibar 1969)

En octubre de 1998, Christian, con
16 años, se va a vivir a
Inglaterra para estudiar
ingeniería. Cuatro años
mas obtendría su primer
título universitario de ingeniero.
Se recibió con 10 de promedio
en toda la carrera



Christian, ingeniero y economista.  
Dos masters a los 23 años!
Aquí con  Lena, mayo 2005.







Christan viaja a Inglaterra, octubre 2000
Christian viaja a Inglaterra,  octubre 2002





 

Diciembre de 2007, en el centro de Estocolmo








Mamá en el "Palacio de la Papa Frita" en agosto  2008






Drama, tragedy, passion, pain, betrayal.
The tango and the life:

 

"Love me when I least deserve it,
because it is when I need it most "...

(I overheard a porteño say this to a woman he was trying to seduce on my last trip to Argentina.
I do not know the author's name nor the success of his poetic efforts)


Drama, tragedia, pasión, dolor, amor, traición... la vida!...
(San Telmo, Buenos aires, julio 2007)



                  COOL IS THIS WE SEE BELOW:                                             Dining with LENA, NADIA Y Chistian, dec 2007:

co  co

Yo, que en la tierra he nacido
donde ese genio ha cantado,
y el pampero he respirado
que al payador ha nutrido,
beso este suelo querido
que a mis caricias se entrega,
mientras de orgullo me anega
la convicción de que es mía
¡la patria de Echeverría,
la tierra de Santos Vega!

odododod      
Febrero de 2009. Fotos tomadas en El Campello, Alicante, España.

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