The weekend niece. from the book, Searching for treasures

     He lived together with the communities of the faraway rural areas, intensely enjoying the incomparable beauty of their country-side settings. What he most loved of these times in his life was decidedly the warmth of the people and the simple country life. Always ready to learn something new, he worked as he traveled, paying his way through the country. Oscar found himself deeply impressed by the Amazon region. He was particularly overwhelmed by the wide variety and the tremendous diversity of the vegetation and the animal life in the jungle areas.

     When he talked about the jungle zones, he fondly referred to them as those magical gardens, bathed in a unique green light, where, deep in their midst, life dreamed itself into reality.
He met a fellow countryman that lived in the Columbian Amazon region. It was one of those casual encounters that turn out to be transcendental in his life. He was a shaman that carried both Hispanic as Native Indigenous ancestry. Melquiades Arango Baltazar was an individual of incalculable age and with a vast store of experience in life.

     He discovered him to be a most humane and generous person, with an outgoing disposition and always willing to share his deep insight into all matters concerning the healing attributes of medicinal plants.

     More importantly, during the long nightly conversations, they shared beneath the soft Amazon moonlight, they held a series of relevant and in-depth informal chats. Those lengthy conversations, during equally long nights, delved into issues of substantial interest. Melquiades’ lectures were of a philosophical nature, coated with a certain eminently, practical type of mysticism.

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