Month: January 2016

  • In search of new horizons

      “Listen up everybody: for anyone that’s feeling quite bold, Seen from the park          Filadelfia, Caldas, Colombia and is also interested, expressing the drive and determination to go forth in pursuit of new horizons;    in just a few hours, they will achieve what has taken me a lifetime.”   Stories   …

  • What the treasure is

    Thanks to your patience, happily starting the 31st of January,  the second volume of the series, Cuentos cortos de un largo viaje, will be available:  Buscando tesoros Andares por caminos colombianos meanwhile let´s keep following The treasure to the end… “That I can’t leave without telling you which is the treasure?   My dear gentlemen and my most…

  • A good night and an excellent life

      I wish all of you present here tonight, may you have a good night, and also, an excellent life.   In light of the happy booing and the loud general complaints, widely manifested by the concerted voices of the crowd; he smiled placidly as he showed himself to be satisfied and in an excellent…

  • The ten o’clock bus

    “And I have to go;   because, I leave on the ten o’clock bus to the Capital, for tomorrow,   and I must be at the airport to board a plane that will take me to the destination; I have told you that I discovered.”   Stories                In…

  • Rains and downpours

      Now, on this sensitive subject, the town’s optimists invariably argued that in that week it would rain and further still, it would downpour     while the pessimists would wag their heads,       arguing that it was still a long time before the clouds had caught enough water;     Stories   …

  • How different this Sunday

      How different this night,      when on Sundays they traditionally swapped the hot gossips of the moment, would criticize de local politicians,   chat about the crops and the always present possibilities of rains for the next week.     Stories                In Spanish       …

  • Time flies

      … you would have to observe how the faces lighted up with smiles of agreement.     How true and also, how wise the words of the outsider, time had flown!   Stories                In Spanish                How to buy       …

  • The standing ovation

    Façade collage            Marsella, Risaralda, Colombia   “But how quickly time has passed, this only happens to me when I am so comfortable and in such good company.     This remark was followed by an uproar of approval, followed by a standing ovation chuckles, and scattered discreet laughter. It could easily be…

  • The bells tolling

    The coffee          Salento, Quindío, Colombia So things were going to the foreigner, who was about to enjoy a new shot,   In the street         Salento, Quindío, Colombia when from the church the bells began to toll, indicating that it was half past nine.   Viewpoint       …

  • Just by knowing

      I believe that with only contemplating it from time to time; The Real Street          Salento, Quindío, Colombia just by the fact of knowing that it exists nearby me, and that it was I who found it; I will be one of the happiest persons on this planet, and that it…