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Here are several photos and a video of Mele's art exhibit at 1600 Smith in downtown Houston.

I Yo podria amarte Sin pensar en nada mas Yo podria darte mi vida Pero hay algo que me asusta Hay algo que me inquieta Y es que yo no pueda verte mas Yo podria amarte Todo el tiempo que tu quieras Yo podria darte el universo Si supiera que en tu mente Ya no existe otra gente Que pudiera hacerte divagar CORO: Y yo podria hacer tu vida diferente Conmigo, tu podrias sonreir Y no tendrias que pensar Ni que llorar, ni que sufrir Ni preguntar si el futuro

Mele Flórez-Avellán was born to create. From a very young age, Mele has been involved in all types of creative processes. Mele has successfully created works by sewing, quilting, drawing, clay sculpting, singing and composing songs (lyrics and music), writing (plays and musicals), acting, vocal arrangements, and her favorite creative form: painting with acrylics. It's no surprise that such a creative being found her specialty in painting portraits. Her father and grandfather were both excel

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Las pinturas a gran escala capturan la íntima belleza de la gente y la naturaleza que la rodea. Los retratos grandes y llenos de color atraen la mirada de tal forma que luego es imposible dejar de verlos. Disfruto mucho del proceso creativo de pintar retratos grandes, saturados de color y llenos de detalles especiales. Trabajo muy duro en mis pinturas hechas por encargo para capturar ese “algo especial” acerca del modelo – una mirada, un gesto, ese algo que identifica a la persona. Es

Mele Flórez-Avellán nació para crear. Desde muy pequeña Mele ha estado involucrada en procesos creativos de todo tipo. Mele ha trabajado con éxito en costura, quilting, poesía, composición de canciones (letra y música que también interpreta), arreglos vocales, obras de teatro y actuación, escultura con arcilla plástica, dibujo y su arte favorito: Pintar cuadros con pintura acrílica (al frío). No es una sorpresa que esta creativa mujer haya encontrado su especialidad en la pintura de retrato

Large-scale paintings capture the intimate beauty of people and the nature that surrounds them. Colorful, large portrait paintings have a way of catching your eye, making it almost impossible to look away. I really enjoy the creative process of making large portrait paintings, saturated with color and full of special details. With my commissioned portraiture paintings, I work hard to capture that ‘special something’ about the subject – that look, that glance, that feel of the person. I

En mis correrías por el mundo he tenido la oportunidad de conocer gente de todo tipo. El tipo de persona que viene a mi mente en este momento es el conocidísimo “Impertinente de piano bar.” Todos nos hemos preguntado alguna vez cuál es el móvil de esta categoría de gente sin categoría, sin clase, que gusta de importunar a las mujeres cuando éstas tratan de pasar un momento agradable y feliz en un piano bar, solas o acompañadas. En este capítulo de su “Manual del Ocioso” describiremos a este

El tema que voy a presentar hoy es la Productividad. Como una pequeña introducción, les voy a relatar una experiencia que tuve hace 12 años, cuando yo era estudiante en Venezuela de una carrera llamada ‘Ciencias Gerenciales’, una carrera en la que estuve no por mi gusto sino porque fue la que se me presentó en ese momento. Nuestro profesor nos dijo un día que teníamos que hacer una presentación sobre Productividad, investigar en varios libros y hablar con diferentes personas. Como no me interes

My topic for today is Productivity and I will focus on our company. As a little introduction I’ll relate an experience I had 12 years ago when I was a Management student in college, a career that I did not like but I decided to study. Our professor asked us to write an essay about productivity and we had do some research and ask people about it. I decided I did not want to do much because I did not like the career, so on a good day I sat down under a tree and began to write a pretty poem about

Dado que en el mundo hay tiempo para todo, hasta para meterse entre las páginas del diccionario y buscar palabras que no todo el mundo conoce, este cuento rebuscado contribuye al engorde del ya famoso y ampliamente conocido “Manual del Ocioso”. Se recomienda tener a mano el mencionado libro gordo para una mejor comprensión de este cuento rebuscado que robará unos minutos a sus ratos de ocio. En medio de la tripulina que ensordecía al peatón, Casimiro pensaba y pensaba, buscando la forma

In my leisure time I used to write very unusual things. I have many chapters describing the funny way to deal with the facts of life. It’s addressed to people who take life too seriously. Taking life that way is the stressing thing. In my research about people, stress and amusement, I discovered that a good laugh every five minutes is like taking Tylenol every four hours. Happy thoughts, as the philosopher Peter Pan used to say, make you feel like flying - although he was pretty serious abou

Working in an igloo is a joy. An igloo is a very cold place that sometimes can resemble an office. People who work in an igloo have more chances to avoid aging than those who work in a warm and cozy place. One advantage could be the following: Imagine yourself having a very hot cup of tea that you want to drink right away. It is so hot that you have to wait a while. Your nose is already cold enough because of the low temperature, so you may introduce it into your cup of tea, using it as an i

Christmas in Venezuela is a wonderful, noisy, and happy event. All those things related to music, food, and religious traditions take place in a country that has no winter. Not only because Venezuela has tropical weather, but because everybody is so warm there. So we pretend to feel the cold of the artificial snow that decorates an imported tree. The most musical folks organize a “parranda”, which is a group of people who sing our native Christmas music. The least lazy people wake up very

I was a foreigner when I moved to Texas five years ago, from Valencia Venezuela. I did not know what it was going to be like living in this huge state, where you need a car to go to anywhere. I finally saw with my own eyes authentic cowboys, with boots and hats, walking on the streets instead of riding horses, and what surprised me the most was the friendly way Texans greet others every time they have the opportunity. Five years after, I am still a foreigner, but I am not a stranger anymore.

Introduction There was a time when I was young and crazy. I’m not that young anymore, but I’m still crazy after all these years. At that time, I needed somebody to make me go in the right direction. I was waiting for somebody who was happy to lead me feel happy, wise to teach me how to live, and charming to catch me and make me believe in the ideas that were supposed to make me change. *Simple as it sounds, these are the qualities that made my concept of a leader: In other words: attitude, kn

After many years of absence, my sister-in-law, well known as a very loving mother and for having an explosive personality, went to Venezuela with her two little children. They went to visit a famous museum in downtown Caracas, which is now a pretty dangerous place. When the cab stopped in front of the museum, she stepped down with her 180 pounds of weight and a big smile on her face. Then, a tiny thief approached her and with a ferocious grimace, put a big knife in front of her face and sho

“Nadie sabe cuál es el origen de esta conmovedora historia, en donde nuestros actores hacen notar a flor de piel sus admirables dotes histriónicas y su amor por la poesía egipcia, también llamada de los egipcios. Sólo sabemos con certeza que nuestra historia ocurrió en una calurosa tarde de primavera, verano, otoño o invierno, en la época del ábaco y la túnica, en la ciudad de El Cairo, antiguo Egipto. “Nuestra historia relata la vida de la reina Fara Ona, que según c

“Mientras el bueno de Amenophis, hijo de Percebea y Onofre, da la media vuelta y se va con el sol cuando muere la tarde, Otitis muy sonriente cuenta la escena a la pérfida Fara, la cual ríe al saberse solicitada por Tutin Frutin. Fara ordena a la esclava que busque a Amenophis para que le diga que la hora de la cita será al atardecer, en la colina De Punta en Blanco, luego de dos soles. Una vez cumplida la misión Otitis será premiada, permitiéndosele dormir acostada por una noche…” TUTIN FR

NOTE: Original play in Spanish written by Mele Florez-Avellan... Translation provided by Melissa Avellan Florez THE PROPHETIC ONE: Nobody knows the origin of this touching story, in which our actors will let us feel their admirable histrionic abilities and their love for the Egyptian poetry, also called the poetry of the Egyptians. We only know for sure that our story happened in a very hot afternoon in spring, summer, fall or winter, in the time of the abacus and tunics, in Cairo, ancient E