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Conservarla es<br />

su gloria mayor<br />

TO KEEP IT,<br />

HER GRATEST GLORY<br />

Si algo ha sido, es y será pertenencia vital para los salvadoreños<br />

es la tierra, que la historia nos concedió en un pequeño espacio<br />

geográfico y que la memoria, el apego y la distancia nos han venido<br />

transformando en un <strong>de</strong>stino sin fronteras. La tierra es mucho<br />

más que el soporte mineral <strong>de</strong> nuestra vida: es el conjunto <strong>de</strong> los<br />

elementos que nos permiten vivir como seres que se mueven por<br />

impulso propio. La tierra es también el aire que circula sin fin <strong>de</strong><br />

norte a sur y <strong>de</strong> este a oeste, como si el planeta nos regalara sin<br />

<strong>de</strong>scanso una respiración infinita. También es el agua que se libera<br />

<strong>de</strong> las nubes con inspiración <strong>de</strong> llovizna o con arrebato <strong>de</strong> chubasco.<br />

Y es el fuego que circula bajo tierra buscando el <strong>de</strong>sahogo <strong>de</strong> los<br />

volcanes o que encien<strong>de</strong> los cielos vespertinos como si fueran capillas<br />

mágicas para la invocación cotidiana <strong>de</strong>l milagro <strong>de</strong> la luz natural.<br />

If something has been, is and will be of vital belonging for Salvadorans,<br />

is its land which history conce<strong>de</strong>d us in a small geographical<br />

space, and that memory, the fondness and the distance has been<br />

transforming into a <strong>de</strong>stiny without bor<strong>de</strong>rs. Our land is much more<br />

than the mineral sustenance of our life: it is the group of elements<br />

that allows us to live like beings that move by self impulse. Our land is<br />

also the air that flows endlessly from north to south and from east to<br />

west, as if the planet gifted us without rest with an infinite breath. It<br />

is also the water that is freed from the clouds with the inspiration of<br />

the drizzle or with the rapture of the thun<strong>de</strong>rstorm. It is the fire that<br />

circles un<strong>de</strong>rneath the earth searching for the relief of the volcanoes<br />

or that lights up the evening skies as if they were magical chapels for<br />

the daily invocation of the miracle of natural light.<br />

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