Month: February 2016

  • On the road to the border

    On the road to the border

    And the child never perceived there was a bill to pay for the tiny bulb that lit up his nights…     Two days later, he placidly arrived to the city of Ipiales. He had crossed more than half of Colombia. Now, he enjoyed the satisfaction of arriving to its southern border with Ecuador.   He slept the…

  • Uncle Oscar’s dream

    Uncle Oscar’s dream

    Hope is the last resource on a road, when you have nowhere left to go. And, when I reach the end, only she will be left; To love and never forget   One good day, her uncle Oscar, decided to pack all his belongings in a rug sack. It was now time to pursue a dream, which he…

  • One of the favourites, Uncle Oscar

    One of the favourites, Uncle Oscar

    And I discovered something wonderful…  not only food can be planted and reaped… this I clearly understood when one of love’s seeds, began to sprout…     But, on the other hand, her Uncle Oscar and her aunt Carito were the saints with the main pedestals in her devotion’s altar. Uncle Oscar, her father’s older brother, happily…

  • The Old-childs and the Grandparents

    The Old-childs and the Grandparents

    And the best gift I ever got in this life was my childhood…   At her tender age and in view of her inexperience, it would be asking too much of the child to understand that her Grandparents, never enjoyed a moment of infancy.   Totally opposite to Dora and her friends, they had been…

  • Grandfather Diego and his reading bouts

    Grandfather Diego and his reading bouts

    He walked through life with his head bent , his mind high,and his thoughts, soared the skies…   “Diego always displayed, this beautiful, special ability. What would you think, my child, if I were to say that that your Grandfather could read the skies, just like we read a book?   Diego never liked to read…

  • Inés, the loving Grandmother

    Inés, the loving Grandmother

    And in the looking-glass of the other’s pain, her soul itself, reflected…   Her Grandmother Inés, was a very dear figure in Dora’s life.   She possessed a great empathic insight and knew how to treat her like a fellow companion; she didn’t treat her like a little girl nor like a grown-up (for little Dora…

  • Dora, the young girl

    Dora, the young girl

    In spite of the surrounding concrete, the flower grew, and with a smile, it challenged the world…   On occasion, certain gestures the child made reminded her so strongly of Dora’s mother: such a likeness, especially at that age: oh my darling daughter, how soon you left us. May you rest in peace…   Dora’s favourite spot…

  • On the road to San Gil

    On the road to San Gil

    San Gil is a bit more than then 60 kilometres to the south from  Bucaramanga, the capital City, as the crow flies or on a straight path. The bus to Bogotá makes that journey of amazing Santanderian landscapes in a little more than a couple of hours of abrupt and tight curves, as it skirts the Chicamocha Canyon,…

  • During the week ends

    Since she was a child and after the death of her mother, for an interval of various years, the young Dora was sent to the city of San Gil and to the town of Barichara, both belonging to the Santander Department, in the north-east of the country.   At the plaza    Barichara, Santander. Colombia It was…

  • Miss Rosario’s chocolate

    Miss Rosario’s chocolate

    And why are the angels so sad, momma?  Because the good one die, and the bad ones keep on running around. Miss Rosario had a lifetime of serving as a teacher; she had performed at her position, as the Science Professor, for more than thirty of her seventy eight years that summed up her age. Sanctimonious,…