Tag: Colombia

  • Going back

      when I realize that just by contemplating it; I am filled with happiness and inner peace. when I realize that just by contemplating it; I am filled with happiness and inner peace.   That is the reason I am going back to where I found it. ories               …

  • The end of the quest

    But I may add that the quest has finished.   And, it has ended in a total and satisfactory way, completely successful at that. Main Street           San Sebastián de Palmitas, Antioquia, Colombia    The stories                In Spanish               …

  • The question

    The corner          Neira, Caldas, Colombia   “Excuse me, Madam?”, he asked Doña Eudalia. Representation of the founders          Manizales City, Caldas, Colombia . Because of the babbling in the room, he didn´t hear her question. The grade             Neria, Caldas, Calombia “No, of course not,…

  • The most singular beauty

    View of the Amazon         Macas City, Morona.Santiago Province, Ecuador   “Ah, that is a very good question. The lakes          San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro Province, Argentina . I’ll answer that what I have found, the most singular beauty in this world, may be so, but only for…

  • The things in front of us

      “I simply didn’t have the capacity or maybe the experience, Santander  Avenue         Manizales, Caldas, Manizales and for reasons I still can’t absolutely define; I didn’t recognize it at the moment.   Perhaps we search for things in the wrong way, and even if they are in front of us, we don’t identify…

  • Close to home

    The balconies          Neira, Caldas Antioquia   “What did you say? No, My Dear Lady! I know it’s not an impossible mission, an unreachable pursuit,”  San Jerónimo  Valley                        San Sebastian Palmitas, Antioquia, Colombia   he exclaimed, smiling widely and turning to face…

  • The most priceless treasure

      You could say that I’m searching for the most valuable treasure that this whole wide world has to offer.   I have seen and admired so many marvelous things,   yet none of these have totally filled me.    The stories                In Spanish         …

  • Searching for himself

      “And what was I looking for?” he smiled as he answered, “You might say I was searching for myself, but that is not really true.   I believe that, contrary to other persons, I have never lost myself, and indeed, I have always known where to find myself.”    The stories       …

  • The quest

      “I’ll tell you that it’s curious that you ask. It’s curious because I was precisely thinking about the subject just before coming in and beginning to chat with you.   The thing is… deep down inside, I believe that all these travels have been motivated by a quest.” Doña Eudalia had gotten up from…

  • Doña Eudalia

      And that was precisely Doña Eudalia, no more, no less.   She was entrenched in a table next to her uniformed assistants   (the buses, travelling daily from the distant border, would stop for a half hour in front of her diner, a block and a half behind the town’s church and next to…