Tag: writing
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A Black Bird, Moving and Changes
Last week I skipped writing the article on the blog! Maybe you didn’t even notice, maybe you did. I just couldn’t find the time. Sorry about it! Today I bring you the story behind the painting “Pajaro Cactus” and some blog’s updates…
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The older we get, the more we are our parents
Everything I criticized about my mother I see now in myself. My hands adopt the same sleeping position as my dad’s, I learned to cook my mom’s soup, I even laugh like them and fold my shirts the exact same way she does. Many of opinions have their closed and traditional tendencies, even though they…
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Do we need cities?
Conversations with a cockroach I couldn’t sleep the other day. It was four in the morning already and no signs of sleepiness were showing up. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t tired. I was exhausted and my mind started thriving, like one does at four in the morning. The reason for my insomnia? A dingy bar…
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Leopards and Soccer
My hometown, Bucaramanga, is a small city, with a hot climate, of “angry” and “berraca” (strong) people. I have never been very interested in soccer, but for several weeks, a furor had been developing in my city, which was impossible to ignore, to the point where it became contagious.
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Drawn Memories in Zapatoca, Colombia
Today, I’m sharing my little adventure drawing in the charming town of Zapatoca, Colombia. Drawing it´s something different than photos. It forces you to slow down and seriously observe what you are looking at. What are the characteristics of that rock? the green of that plant? Does it have more blue or more yellow? Those…
Tina Ovalle 