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Luz - Madrid (Spain) - 2015

16/4/2015

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"Todo con medida, nada con exeso" // "All with measure, nothing in excess"
And playing a psychological game where you ask participants to complete the forms
the 1st (up left) representing how you see yourself : an infinite twirl
the 2nd  how you see spirituality : fleeting concepts of liberty
the 3rd how you see the working world : a worked for path from down to up
the 4th (left down) how you see yourself in life : with no sharp corners
the 5th how you see family : a overlap  of relations - not specifically always the same type - but still a form in itself of completion
the 6th how you see love : casual and simple love
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Chiara - Madrid (Spain) - 2015

8/4/2015

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"When you brain goes faster than your feet, don't worry, just breathe, smile and buy a ticket to somewhere"
One of the first volunteers I shared my room with and with whom I spent nights at the front of our hostel talking with beers and cigarettes. One night she told me, as she was explaining to me all the different places she went to and still wanted to go to how sometimes, her mind was going places faster than her feet allowed her too. She said this as she tapped her feet to the floor and let out a sigh of frustration that I think the wanderlust crowd knows all too well. 
ps : sorry Chiara if i misspelled your name in the book ! Hope you won't take it wrong :-)
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Stefano - Madrid (Spain) - 2015

8/4/2015

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Stefano was 23 when he came to Spain from Italy. While he had done studies in herbalism, the closest he ever came to it in Madrid was when he bought his monthly dose of “smokable” herbs in Lavapies.
When I met him, Stefano worked as a night receptionist at a hostel I lived in. He spent most weekends working while others enjoyed their social lives at the most common of hours. The solitude dawned on him some days, and at others, it was mainly his solitary character that accepted it. When asking him about his travels, he told me his most significant one was the Camino de Santiago he did a few years back alone.
Tired, exhausted and collecting blisters over blisters, he halted for a couple of days in small convent, pondering between continuing and taking the first bus back to the city. Stefano’s backpack seemed to only be weighing him down rather than helping him be independent, as any backpack is supposed to do.
That same night, at the campfire that was lit, a priest approached him asking him about the sorrow in his eyes. The priest said nothing for a while as Stefano opened up about feeling he was never able to finish the things he started. What the priest revealed to him that night, was that some backpacks were physical, while others were emotional – but most of all they were filled with fears. Needless to say that night Stefano decided to continue his route and donated half his belongings to the convent.

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    "Last words for the Road" by Lauren Klarfeld

    Book-in-the-making : A  collection of hand written quotes left by the people I met on the road (7 years and running)

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