About farewells

That's the meaning of a farewell in the full, important meaning of the word: that the two people, before they part from each other, come to an understanding of how they have looked and experienced each other. Parting is also something you do with yourself: to stand by yourself under the look of the other.

Mercier, Pascal. Night Train to Lisbon. New York. Grove Press. 2008.

When in Brugges (aka Serendipity weekend)

Written on July 2008

"Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for."
Lawrence Block

So we decided to go to Brugges and explore our subconscious, this was one of the few times we had before we are completely busy with the day to day. Personally I had a bunch of things to think about and I wanted to explore what my subconscious was telling me.

This doesn't happen very often to me and I am the type of person who always thinks that everything should have a logical and rational explanation... maybe not.

Anyway, one day before we decided impulsively to go to Brugges and just disconnect from everything and everyone else and see where it could take us.

So we decided to have a Serendipity girly weekend there trying to find the meaning of the dreams, and read whatever our mind was trying to tell us and go with the "not-planned" flow, if it was meant to happen then it happened.

Thanks Kirsty for this really cool weekend in Belgium, I will not forget and it helped a lot! Let's keep on looking for shisha places!

Walking to the Horizon

Published on Monday May 19 2008

When I first thought about the idea of my blog I thought about this title. This blog took its name from a signature in an e-mail I received that was also borrowed from the Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano.

The original quote says:

"La utopía está en el horizonte. Me acerco dos pasos, ella se aleja dos pasos. Camino diez pasos y el horizonte se desplaza diez pasos más allá. Por mucho que camine, nunca la alcanzaré. Entonces, ¿para qué sirve la utopia? Para eso: sirve para caminar."

"Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer, it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking"

I like the idea of the walking part, it is not the utopia what matters but the process you go through and the things you make, change and contribute while walking towards it. I would like to share my walking in this space. Hope you enjoy it.