In Colombia! Food, farm, family, friends

Fried flat plantain, patacon

Family, Paula, Sebas, Simona... all the love, all the hugs from family and friends at our arrival

Sea food soup... our re/encounter with our food, traditions, culture, ways of doing thing, of living...  our people. Our belonging.  

Carlos at his workshop, I do hope to learn to make art work at the forge with him! 

The Studio will be organized soon. I have visited our kiln-maker, Jorge Perez in Chia, organized to take to Villa de Leyva tools, oxides, shelves, my kiln... soon.

Will start to work there. A big challenge. Life will tell...

July 18 2009 a Saturday filled with light, Alejo - Lysanne

JOY!!!
 It is their wedding.
Alejo and Lysanne got married at noon. In our backyard. Just the family and Nestor and Covi. She was the celebrant. We all gathered around them to give them both our love and support.
It was a beautiful wedding day. Blessings. Life is filled with blessings.

2008 summer Country Fair

Not much work this summer... a few pots, a few angels and peace birds... time for joy, family and friends visiting. A good Summer! Here we are at the community Summer Country Fair: Emilia, now 14, Luisa is 12. They enjoy helping during exhibitions, sales and fairs. I do too, love their energy, company and to work together.

Tamales on my Birthday

We get together to cook!!!

Always fun...

With Isabella and Susana we have been getting together to cook. Informal, always learning something new from each other.

So we added Ricardo, Diane and Emilia to make tamales for a birthday celebration.

I hope this works. It is a link to a slide show with music of the TAMALES party... if you wish to have the recipe, go to my blog "cocinar/rico" here.

Start again after Claudia's death

Our family has been the center of life during the end of 2007 and these first two months of 08: being together for Claudia's death. Instead of trying to express with words love, compassion, pain, a smile, I share with the language of images through photos.

Ricardo has been writting the most beautiful, compassionate and deep pages in his blogs, transforming into words the beauty of love, grief, death and his mourning and healing. My son started when she was diagnosed and goes through her fight against Ovarian Cancer at http://shareclaudiashealth.blogspot.com/. Then he is writting a second Blog as he bloomed during Spring and Summer.

Be prepared to fall in love with this son of ours, his family, his extraordinary photos, his grief and joy.

Here, my homage to him, to Camila, Tomas and Mateo.

Claudia, last days

Almost a month with our son and his family. There was snow in Bellevue. Friends brought her flowers, cards, special food, beer. And love. Here you may visit the album of our family during her last days. Claudia dies at noon, February 24, 2008 You may also visit my son's Blog, during Claudia's fight against Ovarian Cancer. Be prepared to spend quite some time with him, with her, with them. After, life goes on. Start again... for this too, will pass.

Honoring Claudia

During our visit to Bellevue and Seattle she got the news: cancer.

This visit in October 2006 to our son Ricardo, Claudia and their children, Tomas, Mateo and Camila is special, when a new chapter starts for the family with her fight against both, ovarian and cervical cancer. We all are devastated. She decided to fight it, and she did. For 28 months she lived each day, always with a smile, kindness and peace. All the support and love and hope from Ricardo, the kids, family and friends. they found the true community in Bellevue at Eastshore Sanctuary in Bellevue, Washington.

Many tears and community words during the beautiful Memorial Service. I read a page to thank her for her life, her love and her fight. With claudia we learned about living, to keep a smile no matter what and to live and die in grace, January 24, 2008. You may read and see and live with us, be touched by Ricardo's Blog and walk with him in this path, he continues writting about Life Without Claudia.

Maria & Rosario, Sculpture Prayer for Peace

Maria, my mentor, my critic, my friend, my daughter, my maestra.

Who I also am, Ricardo & Rosario

Mas de la mitad de la vida con Ricardo... en las buenas y en las malas...

siempre ahi... ha sido el mayor y mejor apoyo

en el trabajo...

pero mas aun, en la vida.

Hemos compartido........ todo. More than half of my life with Ricardo... Always there.

He has been the greatest,

the best support in my work

more than that

we have shared it all through life. Junio 2007, celebramos 45.

2002, my mother dies in Zipaquira, Colombia at 90

A few months after moving to Canada, my mother dies in May, at Foyer de Charite, Cogua, Colombia. She went in joyous peace. I felt so happy to have honored her as the main Woman in my life in my artistic work. She was a committed believer, an Artist and a Teacher, a mother of 8 and left a family of almost 100. In the photo, just some of us, at my sister Pilar.