dresser in my living room, a clock strikes night and day. Square box is cedar, pivotally mounted on an easel, also of that material. The dial, light oak, protected by the relevant glass, indicating the hours by means of simple studs strategically located. Is a watch a bit rustic, but simply decent, sober, with what it takes to be a good watch and nothing more. Maybe that's why the picture is more telling of who drew up his hands "master" Pontius Rigo, carpenter Mallorca. is possible that many of those who contemplate the watch, the importance assigned in this case I was awarded, but if they do, it will be because they have yet to reach the essence of things beyond their appearance. This watch is a reliable proof that in this difficult world there are people whose ancestry is the best defense work and, being nobly recognized.
Because this man whom I speak is one of the many Mallorcan who came to Argentina in search of a better life from a domain office, but what makes it unique is precisely this issue of watches and other ways to say thank you make it a worthy knight of the Crusades as one of the properties more difficult to find in these times face is that of gratitude. Pontius
Rigo, a slim, tall, sharp featured face and clearly Balearic topped with thick glasses, was born in Ses Salines, Mallorca, in 1917. Carpenter, ex officio learned in the islands, is one of those craftsmen and artists who almost are not easily nowadays. I've seen him make ceilings and toy cribs, furniture embossed and highly complicated steps, cabinets, beds, desks and everything he was asked and was made concrete in a flash after, from his clarity of thought. His bony hands, workers always grasped firmly and with great ease, the pencil on paper, to draw the object to build. It seems to contemplate between chip and sawdust in his workshop and putting together in my home many things, among others, the round table that my grandparents Mallorcan insists on building in Buenos Aires and, at the time, caused a huge stir among our overlooked, as it was a nonexistent object in these payments.
But back to Pontius and his family, who arrived in this city in the last wave of immigration: the fifties. Práxedes, Apolonia and Bartholomew, his wife and children (whose names so absolutely Majorca ...!), Respectively, accompanied him on an adventure to seek his fortune in this land. Did
luck?, You ask. I would say that Pontius sawed his luck with the planer sanded, hammered with the dedication to get to have it mastered. And that "luck", as the wrist to polish fist to exhaustion, to persevere in trying to get the best from every vein itself is glued in two children "to study" as it was said. Homeownership became so incredibly well done and so much economy resource that continues to harbor, even today, with dignity and success.
not even overcame an accident in which he lost some of his fingers. I saw your work just might be back on track with what was left of their battalions wrapped in white bands, which were gold staining of sawdust as they passed the hours of work. Only
illness and death of his wife threatened to take away the desire to move forward, but he found a ride back to their homeland within the Fifth Island program and at work, the strength to continue.
Práxedes With the disappearance of loneliness came to him, but brave and determined, in search a spell against old age and death, appealed again to the wood and their hands, and learned to find, through the watches that are the backbone of this review, an original action and incredibly beautiful. Pontius
listed in their hearts the people of the debtor that he considered (and regardless of any favor, particular attention or advice) since arriving in Argentina and was putting together, for each of those people, wooden clock. - In what other material could have made a watch a carpenter! -. Everyone would be like before, but always with a distinct edge. This trimmed with curved one, pyrography, the other with the size that distinguishes it. So who assisted in one way or another to this man so special was getting this show of affection and appreciation made "ticking."
One day, we cited to us to share with him a paella at Casa Balear. It was huge his insistence that concur accompanied by my mother, despite her disability. So we did, to verify that it was not only grateful Pontius through their watches. On one wall of the house wearing a huge range given by him as a token of gratitude for the management that the same was done to allow their return to Mallorca in 1999.
And there, in the good old Casa Balear, our man got wrapped in cloth, their show of gratitude towards my newly polished and shiny. Mother looked at me straight in the eye very telling: "Aurora: Your parents were very good to me when I came to Argentina. This watch is for you to know how much I valued his help and friendship. "
all cried. But since that day, a watch with a square box of cedar wood, pivotally mounted on an easel, also of the material, which quadrant, in light oak, protected by the relevant glass, indicating the hours by means of simple studs Strategically located, governs the life of our house and speaks in his beat, to much is the noble heart of Pontius Rigo, carpenter and Mallorca.
Cati Cobas
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