Ligne Maginot
Ligne Maginot is a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany, based on the trench warfare experience gained during World War I. The fortification is often used as metaphor for…
Look (or do) and live
This morning at church one of the messages mentioned the “look and live” story, if you are not familiar with that, it can be found in the Old Testament, Numbers 21. The Israelites were complaining or murmuring against the Lord…
Liberty
Days ago I had a short but vidid dream, I was having an argument with the king of a fallen world, when I said: “The law does not exist to limit free men, but to limit those who break it.”…
Moving on
We are in lockdown since couple days ago, COVID-19 delta variant finally made it to the country and the government (and most of the people) were OK about going into a sharp and hard lockdown to manage this. For the…
COVID – the whatever phase
I hope to be wrong but it seems we are already living the “whatever” phase of the pandemic, where governments like England or Australia are giving up and promoting the message that “people will need to live with it”, which…
Dropping the ball
The new normal, a coined phrase we used a lot last year during or after lockdowns. By then we assumed life should have to be different after the pandemic. Topics like remote work, better transportation, supporting local businesses and many…
Goodbye 2020
Last night I didn’t made a special dinner or BBQ, just went for a walk, thinking about my parents, friends and relatives away, it has been a tough year specially for my parents and the only way we have had…
COVID – second wave
Couple days ago we went to lockdown again, not a surprise, given that couple cases of people flying from New Zealand tested positive COVID-19 on arrival to Korea and Australia. To be honest nobody was really taking much care here…
Pandemic
Today finally things start to look better for my home country, Chile. I stopped checking the news from there for a while, mainly because it was painful to watch how a big group of people don’t even care about social…
Truth
While updating my blog yesterday I found an old quote that I love: “First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love” – Thomas S. Monson I feel so grateful…
