Travel & self discovery. Art & PTSD I’m finding home

Well, here we are heading to the big meeting in Pucara……..in the back of a pick-up truck, if you can believe it. I truly never thought you’d get me to go up the mountain in the back of a pick-up, Read more

On the evening of my one year anniversary we received rain, glorious rain. There has been no rain all summer, at least in my small world, and very little elsewhere. The scent of beauty surrounded me this morning as I Read more

Yesterday I spent the day in Cotacachi with my friend Charles, who was helping me with translation in a meeting I had been trying to secure since March. It is too soon to talk about what happened, or even why Read more

Written Friday the 13th; The soothing sounds of “Secret Garden”. It seemed to be a good day for music because it has been quite stressful today. Chiripa got hit by a truck today and because I did not see it Read more

I do not expect anyone to understand what it was like to grow up as I did. The simple things most take for granted gone. Common practices of a normal family becoming so foreign, the feelings associated with them not Read more

This post is just going to have to be music because I don’t want to add anything to it. I found this group when looking for another song and have been listening to them all day. Completely original, the vocals Read more

Have you ever been walking down the street and heard a whistle carry over to your ears from a short distance? In my life when that has happened, I won’t look, not because I am offended, but because I could Read more

What I love about the lyrics for this song, is he is giving thanks for good and bad events in his life. I know for myself the elation of a breakthrough comes easy, it just wells up inside you like Read more

There are times when I cannot hear or see what is right in front of me, which I suppose sounds strange, but it is a true and often frustrating phenomenon. It is not unreasonable to assume everyone at some time Read more

August 27, 2019 A beautiful thing happened on the way to lunch today. It is a special moment indeed when I catch sight of Sapphire,  lighting up my day, always!  Of late, he has been flying very low as I go for Read more