Ep 64 / Chatting with Elvira Lindo about living with your eyes open

The excitement of starting a new podcast season has been double this year by opening it with Elvira Lindo. This quarantine accompanied me with his novel With an open heart , and like me to many more people. A small, wonderful family story that made us reconnect with our town and our normal life, that normal life that we have missed so much.

Because Elvira is very normal life, neighborhood life, that city that calls 15 minutes away where everything you need is within that walking distance. She does not live like we do, she eats life in bites, looking, observing, savoring and colliding with everything to live even more. He considers that his forte is telling stories, and to our surprise at the high number that happens to him, he tells us his secret, opening his eyes, asking, talking, interacting with the world until he squeezes it out. That ability that many of us have lost because of the cell phone to get bored and look outside, she treasures as her greatest achievement, her secret.

In her forties, she and her husband have cooked a lot, taken care of the plants on the terrace and created a routine to enjoy. That routine of the privileged, not only to have a nice house and a stable job, but also to be with someone you love, which is the most valuable thing. These months of break have been enriching and now she observes with the eyes of an anthropologist this after that fills us all with uncertainty.

For me, this podcast has been what I needed at this moment, it has made me look closely and realize that sometimes I have looked too far in my relationships, and I have been missing that neighborly and neighborhood hand. And I think that many of us are missing.

Thank you Elvira for giving us that close look that we need now more than ever.

RNE Sound Fiction PODCAST

BOOKS With an open heart – Elvira Lindo

SERIES Lenox Hill (netflix) / The Restaurant (Filmin)

PROJECT World Central Kitchen / Chefs for Spain