Category: 01 To love and not forget

  • The games we play

    Contemplation          Panama city, Panama.   This is not decided by us, nor by God or his Angels. The last ride         Granada City, Granada Province, Nicaragua It is Life’s retaliation, the third protagonist in the Theatre of Existence. For he has never seen eye to eye along with…

  • Engraved into our skin

    Shared moment            Ibarra, Imbabura, Ecuador   But, to some of us, it may come to pass that in our life, we run into an event, not even Time can erase. Sunset in the highland          Carretera a Potosí, Potosí, Bolivia   Almost like a tattoo, it’s so…

  • The vision of a woman

    A rustic landscape   Renacer Hostel, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá. Colombia Amelia appeared. So silently that I never noticed her arrival. I saw her before me, a vision of the most beautiful woman; with a beer in each hand and a smile on her lips. She offered me one of the beers, and immediately after from…

  • Back to Bolivia

    Back to Bolivia

    A few months later, due to various commitments involving the project, I left Bolivia, and I briefly went back to Bogotá. Though I tried as hard as possible; I never found a clue leading me back to Amelia. She had vanished without leaving any mark of her passage. I travelled overland, back to Bolivia. In…

  • What could have been

    What could have been

      My life now belonged to a continuous battle in the Bolivian Amazon Region, where I would remain for several years as part of that project in those far away zones in the jungle.   My job offered me the opportunity to fight against my openly declared enemies and snatch away and their chances at…

  • Amelia

    Amelia

      I decided not to return to Bogotá inasmuch as possible, at least, for a very long time.      The streets reminded of Amelia. She was projected into the music of its bars; singing and acting out, with her unique style, as if she were the performing star. The aromas in the streets, they made…

  • Death and Time

    The Rectory’s façade           Universidad Autónoma de México, México   If I had to bet my money on either Death or Time: I would place it all on the second one of them. This I can say without a trace of doubt in my mind.     I’ve never run into a stiff.…