Archive for the ‘Bolivia ’ Category
Bolivian Grandma with Grandchild — Image by kenne
Your bowler hat sits like a quiet defiance— not loud, not pleading, simply present.
The child leans into you, a question not yet spoken: Will I have to fight as you did?
You tighten the shawl— your answer is warmth.
— kenne
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Isle of the Sun — Photo-artistry by kenne
On the Isle of the Sun the houses lean open— not broken, not abandoned— the doorways don’t close just unwilling to keep anything in.
Each window leans forward, hungry for light, for the shimmer of the lake breathing sky back into itself.
I stand in one threshold and feel the old stories press through my ribs. I walk through a room and the sun walks with me— no permission asked.
And still— the openings remain, wide, insistent, as if to say: nothing we love was ever meant to stay contained.
And the lake— always the lake— keeps answering with a brightness that does not belong to me but enters anyway.
— kenne
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Bolivian Street Scene (08/24/19) — Image by kenne
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody – but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
— Evo Morales
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Bee On Orange Blossom — Image by kenne
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
― Mary Oliver
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Eyespot Butterfly, Bolivian Amazon (09/19/19)– Image by kenne
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La Paz Bolivia Buildings (08/17/19) — Image by kenne
La Paz is located in a bowl, with the satellite city of El Alto above it, on the bowl’s rim. If you are walking, you are either going up or down.
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Sunset Over Lake Titicaca (November 26, 2019) Photo-artistry by kenne
I don’t like gurus. I don’t like people who ask you to follow or believe.
I like people who ask you to think independently.
— A. S. Byatt
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Campsite Supply Boat On A Foggy Morning On The Tuichi River In The Bolivian Amazon — Painting by kenne
I bear many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits.
— Paulo Coelho
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Foggy Morning Breaking On The Tuichi River In The Bolivian Amazon (09/05/19)— HDR Image by kenne
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Tuichi River In The Bolivian Amazon (08/21/19)– Image by kenne
Early morning fog
burned off
by mid-morning
taking with it
the wet air
and the jungle
darkness.
— kenne
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La Paz Street Scene — Image by kenne
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Bolivian Fresh Flowers Women (August 2019) — Image by kenne
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Fighting Cholitas in El Alto, Bolivia (August 18, 2019) — Images by kenne
The Fighting Cholitas are a group of female wrestlers who perform in El Alto, Bolivia. Like the general population of El Alto, which consists almost entirely of Aymara and Quechua residents, the Cholitas are indigenous.
El Alto is the largest city in Latin America with a mostly Indigenous population. About 76% of its inhabitants are Aymara, 9% are Quechua, 15% are Mestizo (descendants of Indigenous and Europeans), and less than 0.1% are Criollos (White). — Source: Wikipedia
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Balsa Wood Rafting On the Tuichi River, Madidi National Forest (August 2019) — Images and Video by kenne
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Macaws In The Bolivian Amazon August 22, 2019) — Images by kenne
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