deciamos ayer...

They say that brother Luis de Leon, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish renaissance started his first class after a three year imprisonment (convicted for having translated the Bible into vernacular Spanish) with these words:

"Deciamos ayer..."

meaning "As we were saying yesterday..."

Thus he wanted to state the fact that nothing had really changed over those three years and that everything could resume from where he had left them.

Here I am, having just come back from Luis de Leon's country, back to my hometown after three years (that were nothing like imprisonment), starting anew all these things I once left behind as if nothing has changed (or has it?)

"Deciamos ayer..."