POST 4

 All starts with this...

My first guitar. 

I remember when I was eleven years old, when that feeling came to my mind and body, I don't know how to explain it very well, but at that time, I really wanted to have a guitar in my hands, I wanted to feel the wood and the strings, I don't know, I never focused too much on the sound, instead, my desire was focused on the sensation with my body. 

My uncle gave me this guitar, now it is very dusty and has only three strings left, maybe someday I will take it to a luthier to have it repaired, for a symbolic question. 

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I don't use this guitar anymore, now I play more the piano and I have others guitars too. But all my artistic inclinations and decisions were built with my practice with this guitar. With it, I was able to express and feel without words and those sensations were too beautiful for me. I still play it because my friends and family likes the music, and I like it too, I really like the sound, it's calmer than the piano, easier to sing with it.

I think that, if in my life I had not had this instrument, maybe many things in the present might be different, well, you never know.

POST 3

Memories of the past 

There are so many stories to tell 

Well, this is one of the first places I was able to visit after the harshest restrictions of the pandemic situation. 

The Botanical Garden of Viña del Mar 

This was when my girlfriend and I treated ourselves to a week-long trip to Valparaiso, my hometown.
We spent the whole week walking around and visiting different places, this was one of them. 
I don't remember who of the two of us took this picture, but I do remember that we were very tired from walking and walking.
We did this maybe in January or February of this year, I don't quite remember. 
We stayed at my grandfather's house in Valparaiso, in Cerro Las Canas. 

I like this picture because it brings back very good memories. Also, the botanical garden was a place I visited in my childhood, so, going there after many years, was a very nice experience. 

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My grandfather's house is now rented by a couple, since March I think. So, I don't think it will be as easy to go back, and stay as many days in Valparaiso as before. My grandfather really needs the money, and he will need it until he passes away I think. Also, my aunt and uncle, they are not very sensible people so, I bet the house will be sold in the future. 

At least, I have been able to enjoy it in its last days and enjoy my grandfather too, even if he wasn't a very good person in the past, it doesn't matter. 

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So many stories that come from one simple thing.