I know what they always say about bureaucracy, but I had to try anyway. I’ve been wanting to create two things. First, I want to create a Memorial Garden at the greenspace of the rest stop plaza where the public will be able to see it & where the family can go & contemplate. Second […]

No more roadblocks! I realized what has been stopping me from completing my Descansos project. If it wasn’t for an exercise that we did on workday #2, I would have never realized that the sadness that possessed me originated from my days living in the South Bronx. I lived my whole life with the premise […]

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” — Stephen Covey “Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.” — Mike Wickett “The principles you live by create the world you live in; […]

Here I am! I have to make another Wednesday call to my SELP coach. I don’t know what to say to him. I am stuck in my descansos project & he is going to tell me “Not again!” The program started on Dec 3rd and here I am a month later & I am still […]

I don’t know what I am doing! January 7 is our 2nd work day & it will be the 1/3 point of this program. I have not progressed well. Something is stopping me from doing my project. We are supposed to talk to people in our community to find volunteers, donors and supporters for our […]

I’m excited! Tonight I start the SELP program & my project can start a new life. In the Advanced Course, they told us that, in SELP, we will need to work on a community project. Immediately I knew what I was going to work on. I intend to continue my Descansos project & hopefully it […]

I don’t want to put thoughts into your mind. Yes, the realist in me would say that this is just camera failure – leave it at that. But why now? Why for images of the descansos? Sorry can’t help myself – what are these people doing in the middle of the road!? This image looks […]

This is a third image, I’m posting, of my first attempt to photograph the descanso. As I explained, I can take pictures just fine. I have done it before, actually the pictures I took just hours before were fine. But now that I am trying to document the descansos – the pictures are, all of […]

Another picture that ended up differently than intended. This was after taking the image of the “descanso” marker. On my way back home I took some images of the road. Again it was broad daylight (look at the lightpost – no lights on) but the image is dark & ominous. The sky was a bright […]

I started documenting my Descansos project & ran into some – for a lack of a better word – strangeness. I was taking a picture of a “descanso” – a place of rest along our journey of life. I got this strange feeling that I was invading somebody’s privacy. I took this picture in broad […]