Peruvian journalist and television host Jaime Bayly He could not help breaking down when speaking this Friday about the abrupt death of his older sister, the editor and poet Doris Bayly, which occurred in the town of Máncora, located in Piura, a northern region of Peru.
According to what he told at the beginning of his program on MegaTV, as soon as he found out about the tragedy, he tried to travel to Peru. He arrived at the Miami airport with his wife and daughter, but for a reason that he preferred not to reveal, the flight was finally canceled. “The goblins of chance conspired against us. I am here and she will be in my heart and memory forever,” he began.
DORIS BAYLY: THE GREAT CHRONICLER OF SOMOS, A SWEET-VOICED POET, IN THE MEMORY OF HER FRIENDS
Bayly Letts recalled various aspects of Doris Bayly’s life, but mainly focused on her love for the sea. “She was always near the sea. Every day she got into the sea and rode waves. Every day she rode a bicycle 10 or 12 kilometers. She thus lost her life, doing what she liked the most”.
“She was a person without selfishness, without a desire for notoriety and protagonism, without ever thinking of herself in the first place. Doris was always willing to serve the poor, the dispossessed, to do acts of charity, charity, and without showing off.
The author of books such as “Don’t tell anyone” or “I love my mommy”, recalled that his older sister – before marrying a painter – entered a convent to become a cloistered nun.
(You can see Jaime Bayly’s words about his sister in the first minutes of this MegaTV video on YouTube)
“He dedicated the best years of his youth –after graduating from university and being a poet now–and locked himself in a convent in the Andes, where there was no hot water, where he did not sleep on a mattress, and where he ate the things he grew in an orchard Only Doris was capable of such things. She was a higher spirit. She was not of this world. And then she did an even more extraordinary thing: she stopped being a nun. If the first thing, choosing to be a nun, will have taken a courage of which I would never have been capable, the second, leaving a convent, becoming an artist and falling in love with a painter and marrying him, and knowing other forms of love, apart from of the love for God that she professed, that must also have been a small spiritual feat, a wonder of the spirit”.
Finally, Jaime Bayly described his sister Doris as an “extraordinary creature”. She praised her kindness, her tenderness, which she called infinite. Likewise, she emphasized how much of a believer in God she was throughout her life. “I want to believe, as she would believe, that she is in a different dimension, surely better, but I am going to miss her damned.”