Quando eu cheguei tudo, tudo. Tudo estava virado. Apenas viro me viro. Mas eu mesma viro os olhinhos
Every year for All Saints Day, people from my family's town in Santiago Sacatepequez, Guatemala make kites to send messages to the dead.
La Montaña Sagrada - The Holy Mountain
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” ― Rumi
Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics.
I LOVE YOU ELIF SHAFAK! <---favorite author!
http://embed.ted.com/talks/elif_shafak_the_politics_of_fiction.html
DUN DUN DUN!!!! This was a lucky shot, no editing done! A church near the Chichicastenango market, Chichicastenango, Quiche, Guatemala, 2012 by Gemma Givens.