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Cuatro Años

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Today marks four years of living in Chile.
Santiago sunset
The view that I’ve wanted for the past four years that I finally have!

Though I had spent five months prior in 2009, it wasn’t until my return to Chile on May 21, 2010 that I decided to take a risk and come make a life here. Nothing worked out as my 23-year-old mind had pictured at the time –imagine that!– but as I take a pause and look at where I am now, I realize it all worked out just as it was meant to be. Continue reading Cuatro Años →

May you revel in life.

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It disturbingly came to my attention the other day that life can be so unpleasant for some that they no longer care to be a part of it. Ok, so I´ve known that for a while now, but sometimes you get so caught up in enjoying life and forget that others are so troubled. This reality greatly saddens me, one I cannot comprehend.

May you be able to stop and appreciate the perpetual beauty this life presents on a daily basis.

cow

That magical golden hour right before the sun goes down.

That moment you look another creature in the eye and have a brief understanding.

Silence.

Peace.

May you revel in life.

In memory of Connie

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Well, it’s not Monday, but it’s surely a day for remembering…

This one is dedicated to my wonderful Aunt Connie, who sadly passed away today, way too young to leave this world. I really had a special place for Connie in my heart, and I’m not going to lie, this one’s a tough one.

I really attribute a lot of my traveling spirit to Connie. With her and my Aunt Peggy I took my first journey abroad to Europe, learned of all her many travels around this big ol’ world and I then knew, that I too would follow in her footsteps. She had the travel bug, and passed that on to me.

And that brings us to now, me in Chile, so far from home, not able to make it back to say goodbye and be with my family. I knew before I moved here that this was inevitable. Death is inevitable. I knew it all, but I’m not going to lie, when it happens, for lack of a better way to say it, it really sucks.

So I go back to a phlog I did not so long ago, which I wrote when two close to me were suffering from loss. Now I find myself in their position…

Life is for living

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“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.’” -John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown

 

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My third world…

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El Golf area of Santiago.
El Golf area of Santiago through a fish-eye.

I wrote an article about this not too long ago, and I feel the need to share it on my personal site as well.

Too many times have I heard grand misconceptions about the country in which I currently live. The one that gets to me the most is when people ignorantly refer to it as a “third world country.” Chile is booming. In fact, their money has surpassed the dollar since early 2009. I have seen the third world…it looks nothing like this, it´s hopeless, horrendous and something I wish upon no life. I could go on and on, but I feel it´s not even worth the fight. If you really consider Chile a third world country, I kindly invite you to leave my sight. Continue reading My third world… →