My best friend

Hi.
Today i have to talk about a friend which it's kinda difficult because i have many friends but i don't know if i have one good friend that i can dedicate a post like this. Most of my friends are like dance friends, or party friends or those that you call when you need a favor and will say yes and that know they can call you too. But i think there's only one that has been for me in all of these situations, who has become one of the most important persons for me in the past time, my support, my partner, and i can say that he's indeed my best friend.
I've known him since 2016 when we were in first year of University, we were studying the same career and we moved in the same group of friends, but we didn't shared a lot at the beginning. With the pass of time, when the paro started we became more close to each other; we started to go together to protests, where we were always holding the other's hand, taking care of not let go when the things were getting more dangerous at the end of the march. That became more common, we shared a lot of political spaces and our ideals were very similar so that made us more attached.
At the end of the paro we realized that we liked each other and we started to go out. A few months later we started a partner's relationship that hasn't stopped until today. We have passed through a lot, he has been for me in very difficult times and has given me some of the most joyful moments, like when he gave me my dogs Beto y Copo and of course every Christmas we pass together and we exchange these great gifts like Pancho (a cat i gave him) and a personalized book for me to write all of my recipes. He's my partner for cooking, for traveling, for parties, for pretty much anything, because we love discovering things together and learn from each other.
We've traveled a lot together, to Arica, to Torres del Paine, to the beach with our friends, to Valle del Elqui with my family and many other places. All of this has made that the confidence we have in each other is the kind of confidence that you can have only with your best friend, that's why i decided to dedicate this post for him.
(i didn't told him i was going to write this, so i hope he reads it sometime and surprise) (if he reads it).

 

A writter: Luis Sepúlveda

Hi everyone.

This post will be about art, which is a very pleasant but also a difficult topic for me because i love many fields of art, so its hard to choose.. but in this case we will focus on the art of writing. In a writer in specific; Luis Sepúlveda. He's a chilean writer from Ovalle and he was born in 1949. 

I read one of his books when i was like fifteen, called "Diario de un killer sentimental" which i loved. It was a mix of traveler's knowledge, the sudamerican writer's identity, police novel and love.

He has many books and he's known by his diversity of themes; he lived in Chile in times of dictatorship, so his books have a clear political influence, but he has also travel all over the world, from Oslo to Tierra del Fuego, he has been in the Amazonía and also at the Sahara's Desert, and has participated in different organizations as Greenpeace working against the whale's killing and the oil contamination of the sea. He was part of many revolutionary groups of Latinoamerica; in Chile he was part of the Unidad Popular, in Nicaragua where he participated in the Revolución Sandinista and also in Ecuador, where he met the shuar indians, who were the inspiration to his best seller "Un viejo que leía novelas de amor". All this facts are captured in his novels and stories, that's why i think i like it so much, because he is a person that has many of the qualities that i admire, like an idol or something: a revolutionary, a person that has social conscience, an ecologist, someone who lived the dictatorship and can transmit it to those who didn't lived it so we can learn from it, a critic, a passionate human being.

You probably didn't know him because, well, no one is a prophet in his land, but in Europe he is actually known like a sort of the second Garcia Márquez, but it's pretty subjective. In any case, i've just finished another book from him called "Nombre de torero". If you liked this little biography of him, you should give him a try, if you want i can lend it to you. You won't get disappointed.

PS: Here's a quote that i found that kinda describes his narrative, but i dont't think i can translate it to english and that it still has the same sense when you read it.

"La atmósfera de sus creaciones se inserta en una suerte de realismo, que no desconoce la magia, pero se distingue porque está aferrada a realidades sociales y geográficas."