Tag: Mexico

  • Early morning reflections

    Early morning reflections

    Contemplating his life and where it was leading him; he decided it was time to change his course It was on one of those endless days, which had followed another one of those eternal nights, precisely when the people had found how to take turns, so the party wouldn´t end for lack of adepts. It seemed…

  • A lucky birthday

    A lucky birthday

    There are those that never risk anything in life; they are called cautious: they are recognized becuase of thier wing that never grow     When Carito was on her sixth birthday, he announced that his luck was about to change, for the Baloto and the Manizales Lottery were both scheduled on the child’s birthday.   Sure…

  • Drinks and gambling

    Drinks and gambling

    For him, every step in life was a gamble and a bet. To bet little, so as, to lose little, was very much like living a little, so as, not to die next morning.   Three years later, she was pregnant once more, still without adapting to the hot weather of the city.    …

  • In the land of the hot weather

    In the land of the hot weather

      When the two Marroqui sister’s mother was scarcely in her first month of pregnancy, the family moved south, taking advantage of a job opportunity for her father.   Their mother arrived pregnant, and as it turned out, she never adapted to Cali’s intense heat.     . During her pregnancy, she barely touched food,…

  • The vagrant roads

    The vagrant roads

    Once done with the make-up, a new life emerged. Once done with the removal of the make-up, she vanished once more to return into the the jar, where she had once emerged, until the next show. Certain events happen sporadically or simply never come to be. In this case, both clicked, immediately and instantly, and a spark of friendship struck between them. On…

  • the walks of fate

    the walks of fate

    Merrily sailing the seas of their lives, those brightly coloured sailboats ,propelled along on their way, by the whimsical winds of their unknown destinies…   On occasions, it is outright difficult to decide if  in life, our paths merely branch off randomly and on their own, or if it is our own inherent destiny, who…

  • 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…

  • The bad ones never die, momma?

    The bad ones never die, momma?

    The bad ones never die, momma? They die darling, only they they’re so busy with their wrongdoing, they take longer.     Without any doubt, Bucaramanga’s traditional cemetery is the Central Cemetery. The main access to the cemetery is on 45th street. And it’s a portal with a lively canary-yellow façade, decorated with white ledges.…

  • Trail of the poets

    Trail of the poets

    The beautiful forest of Chapultepec  is found in Mexico City.  It holds a protected area of the forest, a lake and diverse recreational and cultural  sites. Below the gentle shade of its trees, there is a trail to enjoy a walk inside the forest. There, you’ll find the fragments of poems from different Mexican Poets… The Trail of the Poets.   Were do I come from,…

  • Inside and out of Chapultepec

    Inside and out of Chapultepec

    Inside de forest, the path of the poets, offers the landscapes of the poetical thinking of Mexicans who wrote among other things… of Chapultepec in itself . Also, walking the outskirts of the forest, features the possibility of delighting  in the non-permanent  exhibits that contain a great diversity of themes as well as, mediums of expression… The Paseo de la Reforma avenue,…