The aroma of a stew begins to bloom in the garden. The indiscreet air of the kitchen circulates through a patio flanked by small shrubs, with a fountain in the middle and, in the background, mud casseroles and stone molcajetes are part of the landscape around Laura Esquivel.
“Time is that moment, that moment, where I stop, I enter in silence and enter into contact with my ancestors, with the air, with the water, with the fire, with what I am. It is the beat that connects me and has always connected me … that is the real power and that does not come out in the growth indices (economic),” he says, in an interview, the author of the novel As chocolate water.
And the writer considers that the best inheritance for future generations is the ability to sow and know what they eat, to feed and enter into tune with our nature immersed in a centuries of centuries of life.
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“I think that the true power we have is one that is not always in sight, because it has to do with the conservation of life itself,” says Laura, who knows that in the future time this power will be increasingly valuable in a world that privileges money.
The graduate of the Bachelor of Preschool Education has seen progress in a greater participation of women for the gender perspective. However, he has looked at many of them working for a patriarchal system, and men who genuinely recognize the importance of the feminine.
“The fight is not gender, but to rescue the feminine. And this rescue is of a whole cosmogony and an ancestral way of life that was silenced and crushed at the time of being colonized,” he explains. And, he considers, the feminine is the inclusion of all people.
The work of the Mexican author has been translated into more than 30 languages ​​and taken to the cinema, while, this year, the global streaming platform, Max, premiered a series that is based on the book published in 1989.
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But the success for the writer does not have the same market conception. For her, genuine achievement is to make communities work together to sow the earth and generate a tilapia hatchery, as did in a project in Brazil. Suddenly, the memory of its history in Cariocas lands is mixed with the aromas emanating from the kitchen and its eyes are wet, while the silence of the moment is present. “These are times to remember the true sense of time,” says Laura Esquivel, with the warmth of a woman who water seeds on her constant trips, and shows that her passage through the earth is to sow and harvest.
