I’ve chosen this Monday Memory simply because it is fun and colorful. Enjoy!
(It’s fun to see how I’ve evolved as a photographer and in shooting these festivals. Granted the recent San Pedro was during the day and had good natural light, but there is a clear improvement, which is kinda the point eh?)
I got to thinking about this old phlog over the weekend, when I got to get out of the city and head to Olmue for a friend’s birthday. Sometimes, there’s nothing better than not being in a city of more than six million people. This phlog was the first time I really got to see the Andes’ glory. I fell in love.
It’s been a while. There were too many new memories to share, but today I’m busting out a Monday Memory, my area, El Centro…
June 16, 2010
Spoiler alert: This post is sad.
Soon after my brother died, I began to fear time. Everyone reassured me that only time could heal the pain, so I went along with it. But deep down, it was my enemy, each day taking me further away from my only brother. I feared I would forget him….
And here we are, 11 years later. I realize that I never had anything to fear. He will never be forgotten. It’s as John Steinbeck said in To a God Unknown:
“Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life. While there remains even a plaintive memory, a person cannot be cut off, dead. And he thought, ‘It’s a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man’s life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness.’” Continue reading Monday Memories – Clint Montgomery
I’ve never actually published this photo before, but came across it recently and I thought it was pretty cool.
I’m posting this for today’s memory because lately, I’ve had a real itch to leave the concrete jungle behind for a hot second, breathe deep and run around in the mountains. Soon….
Continue reading Monday Memories – Breathe, breathe in the air… As every day here has been at least in the high eighties since I can remember, I take a reprieve from the dog days of summer via photos I shot two years ago at my lovely home in West Virginia. I’ll never forget that by that point in my life, due to changing hemispheres so often, it was my third consecutive winter, only to be followed by another upon my “permanent” return to Chile. Oh how I wanted to feel the heat of the very sun heating me now.
So, it may be hot, but I can’t complain.
Though this never actually made it in a phlog, I took it while interning at The Santiago Times in 2009. In fact, it was my first assignment for them.
I found some writings from when I was in Vietnam. I liked this one and thought it’d be a nice change, from South America to Southeast Asia.
Continue reading Monday Memories – Chicken feet & bird placenta
A continuation of last week’s Monday Memory, Eleven days in the Lakes District (Part 1).
Day 6:
Woke up refreshed with Skip on the porch. We hiked around the Chiloé National Park for a bit, and of course our partner tagged along. Continue reading Monday Memories – Eleven days in the Lakes District (Part 2)
It’s been a hot second since I’ve posted a Monday Memory. So many things going on. However, as this is one of my fondest memories, it’s time. It was such a large phlog that I’ve decided to break it up into two posts, so check back next Monday for the rest!
I looked at this phlog and thought how at one point, I didn’t need to go to the flowering desert, because I lived within it, right here in Santiago.
9/26/10
“Manos verdes,” Green hands: An extraordinary ability to make plants grow. In English, this would be known as a “green thumb.” Continue reading Monday Memories – Carmen’s Eden.
Soooo, Manu Chao is playing in Santiago this November 26, 2011 at the Estadio Nacional. All tickets cost $11,000 CLP, and you better believe I’ll be sacrificing a meal of vegetables in order to buy my ticket. I first saw Manu Chao in Santiago back in 2009, as I was so lucky as to get a photography pass and jam into the night with this phenomenal band. So today’s memory is now an anticipation; I can’t wait!
Life is good, busy and a bit random, hence today’s memory.
Two Randoms Make a Phlog Continue reading Monday Memories – Random I really love where I live now in Santiago. However, from time to time I wonder over to my old neighborhood just to appreciate its Bohemian ways.
I’ll never forget the first time I went to Cajón del Maipo back in 2009. It took my breath away, and it’s continued to do so ever since. Doing yesterday’s phlog, I realized, I’ve been there so many times, and yet I would go again tomorrow…in a heart beat.
What can I say, I’ve got spring fever. I took the beautiful evening after work yesterday to be outside and enjoy, and Monday Memories never got done. It’s equally beautiful today…bringing us to today’s memory:
I have now spent three independence celebrations in Chile. For an entire weekend, it’s all things national heritage, all things Chilean, and it’s been fantastic every single year. Last year was the 200th anniversary of Chile being Spain-free, and I was there, running around with my camera, documenting what it truly meant to be Chilean. So this year, I decided to forget the worries and dangers of dragging my beautiful camera around, and simply enjoy. Aside from all the pretty fireworks, nothing was different in comparison to my previous “dieciochos.” It’s all about food, family and fun. What more do we need in life?
Ok…so it’s Tuesday…yesterday was crazy busy! In honor of the big national heritage celebrations, September 18, it seems only appropriate that I give you insight as to what the streets in Santiago are like.
I like food. A lot. And through food, I found revelation. I hope this entire site is tribute to that.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Hot soup containing beef or chicken with a potato, a corncob, carrots and possibly other vegetables with some rice: Cazuela, a typical Chilean dish. How about a steak covered with grilled onions and French fries topped off with a fried egg: “a la pobre.” Completos, a hot dog on a fresh baked roll with tomatoes, sauerkraut, avocado and mayonnaise, or empanadas, filled with various ingredients…this is Chilean cuisine. Continue reading Monday Memories – Food for thought
Oh the good old days, when A. I had savings and B. I blew them all hopping around Chile and beyond…
Money well spent…
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Heat, salt, and endless blue skies define San Pedro de Atacama; it is a place of grand scale beauty, unfathomable until you have seen it with your own eyes. Continue reading Monday Memories – Atacama
…because I love everything about wine…
11/22/10
Well, it’s just so very cold, so while I’m laying in my bed wrapped up in six blankets, wearing long johns, pants, a long sleeve shirt, a fleece jacket and two pairs of socks on, I see this as an appropriate Monday Memory: My first go around with a heat-less winter, 2009. This is my third now, and it’s probably the worst, as I have not even an old, ghetto heater to warm my bones. It’s cold folks, downright cold.
So in honor of 4 July, I thought I would do a Monday Memory from the U.S., but from the season in which I´m currently experiencing: Winter. (Last week was a holiday for us, and I completely forgot to publish a memory! woops!)
Though not like my former West Virginia winters, snowy and icy, it still gets quite cold here in Santiago. Well, you say, days where the high could be in the forties, the low just below freezing isn´t that bad…and you´re right, in comparison it´s not. HOWEVER, the States has this lovely little cozy convenience of central heating, far from the norm here in Chile. Heating is expensive, so we just bundle up and deal with it instead. My normal at-home garb: Leggings, sweat-pants on top; socks, fleece socks over those; a shirt with a fleece on top and generally a scarf. My bed has six blankets and I still get cold. Needless to say, I´m looking forward to my two-week visit in the States this August!!
2/18/2010
Starting two weeks ago, two of my friends and I started taking private salsa lessons. We chose my apartment for the location, as I have yet to acquire any furniture, despite having lived in it since February. Granted I have two camping chairs and two stools, but fold up the chairs, and my apartment transforms into a salsateca! We’ve been having so much fun and learning quite a bit.
So I dedicate this Monday memory to the love for Latin rhythm. The phlog shows its age though, as I have since been to this club and it is not really a place I would recommend. Seriously, don’t go to Club 4-40. As I wrote in an article for work, there are so many other places in the city to dance. ¡Bailamos!
One, two, three…and one, two, three….Continue reading Monday Memories – Bailamos!
