Category: Exploring the world
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The Wishing Tree
Airports have been a strange but soothing constant in my life. From a young age, dragged by my mother’s insatiable thirst for seeing new places I remember airports. I remember smells, I remember feelings, I bathrooms, I remember meals, I remember lounges, I remember much happiness, I remember much sorrow. I find a strange comfort…
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Mery
By Venezuelan standards, I have always been defined as an “intense” person. Not quite the same meaning as the English word carries I would imagine, but it gives an idea of a person constantly looking for something spiritual or emotional. Being an “intense” person in our slang just means you are one of those people…
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El cuento del Indio.
If you’ve ever stayed in a rural area, you will come to know that there are many tales of supernatural beings, spirits, and events that are hard to explain using rational thinking. It would appear – as Carpio reminded us over New Year – that we shouldn’t fear most of them as the vast majority…
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The Aras of Caracas
Legend has it that there was a time when Venezuela’s people and every aspect of daily life didn’t have a political background. As a child, I faintly recall a world without politics, but nearly 25 years under the same regime has colored everything in politics; mainly a fight between yellow, blue and red (our flag…
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The Surcuito.
One of the upsides of the madness of quarantines around the world is that it has forced people to go outside more. When you can’t go “inside” and meet others, it seems the natural trajectory has been to spend more time outside where there is space for everyone. If Covid has brought anything positive it…