What Guatemala is defies description or intellectual definitions. You can only feel it in your heart when you open your eyes, when you listen to people, when you stay quiet and let it get under your skin.
This honorable elder is our neighbor in Santiago Atitlan. He is over 80 years old; he does not know exactly when he was born. He tells us about the old times. I can only sit down beside him, quietly, on the ground he cultivates still; I listen and feel his presence, Guatemala’s spirit eternal.
No words, only pictures and even that is not enough to explain what I feel in his presence.
Thank you Don Juan for still exiting for talking to me, for shaking my hand.
Adios Don Juan.
Pictures: Barbara Schieber, Guatemala eternal
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