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Valencia in late Fall, December 2018 If being with you hurts, if being without you is exhausting, if laughing together becomes scarce… With or without you, a good poem by Machado, a slogan of sorts for life. Living apart in the beginning, living together for a while, living in a harmonic sort of zigzag. If living with you hurts, if living without you exhausts, then, living in a zigzag… With you it is, lives and lives together in this distance of pretended solitudes. With you in solitude, with you in mind and soul, both alone together in the void of space.

Valencia (Spain) in the Fall, November 2018 Two sources of light warm, welcoming, vital, deep. Two beacons so bright, strong, pure, energy at the boiling point. Two gleaming wells, mysterious, bottomless, arcana to escape to. Two eyes so sharp, beautiful, brown, alive, in love. Two eyes that are loved, light in the dark, peace in my soul.

Casa Batlló, Barcelona (Spain), August 2018 Ties so tight you strain. Love so deep you hurt. Tied by love, loved in ties. But true love doesn’t hurt, true love doesn’t tie, true love is not strained. True love is but a bond for eternity, a pledge for togetherness, a vow of being two but one, an oath of belonging, a plan to sail in the same winds, even in opposite directions. Love is no tie, love is a bond for lives, love ties us to life, though moving us along. Life is a loving bond; love is our bond, our vow, our oath, our pledge to live and leave a better world behind.

College San José de Caracciolos, University of Alcalá de Henares (Spain), November 2018 On a cold day in the Fall seeking sanctuary at home around a hearth so warm even though no fire burns there. Ashen landscape of cold gray shades all around reminding of things gone by of dreams unlived and left behind. A gaze at the ashes, a stare at life back and ahead, your soul poking at the ashes embers rekindling to fire again. A prayer, a grateful smile at being happy, being blessed by the warmth of the hearth, by the home you have found. Ashes, embers, gratitude, feelings that brighten your day, feelings that move you through life. Thank you for being there for me, thank you for guiding my soul, thank you for my dreams come true.