[img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//8328525/4d7146df4b8bbb2e2a66d028e14b07a5975aa4a7.jpg[/img] "I was two years old when Papá first took me to the museum. I asked to visit my ‘yaya’ so often that we went every Friday, rain or shine. I think it helped him to get me out of the garage! But as I grew up, those visits became less and less important." [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//8328525/8922921b7e2ca9fcc4555126da7ddf4b16df456d.jpg[/img] “They say time heals all wounds. What does it do for those that never began to close in the first place?” "Now, looking back on her life, I realise I know so little. My earliest memory is of her smile, but her dreams, her desires – her fears – those are all missing. What I love most is the light her memory brings to my father’s eyes. She is still very much alive in his heart. Now, whenever I visit, I spend hours listening to him talk about her, trying to capture that light for my own. The death toll of a war never tells the whole story. It says nothing of the casualties that occur after the treaties are signed. Bad habits, old wounds, memories – these kill so much more slowly. We can never understand, but we can remember and maybe, God willing, we can keep such a tragedy from ever happening again." -- SPECIALIST ELENA “MIRA” MARÍA ÁLVAREZ [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//8328525/f1d6722dcd86c6f83cdc68a062163e75f104757f.jpg[/img] “The past gives us a lens through which to view our future. Inspiration and opportunity come from introspection and observation.”