Unchain My Heart, Lima

este mañana, precolumbian, jesus, y yo la llevamos a Chuya al aeropuerto. Her return to d.c. also signals the close of my journey down south. After close to 6 months, i am going back to d.c. and I am in a state of confusion, sadness, preoccupation, and excitement. The last 6 months have been ha ha funny, frustrating, beautiful, hard, full of growth,realization, and love. Valuable relationships were formed, some relationships were strengthened and taken to another level, while others have suffered.

With that said, I have a lot of writing to do for you folks this week but in the meantime I leave you with this song sung by Akiko Wado. I heard this song in the taxi to the airport. As I held Chuyas hand and we jammed to this song, I realized that of the 100 favorite moments I have had in Peru, all of my taxi rides to pick up or drop off people or myself from the airport are included in that list. Because of the amazing soundtrack each driver provides. I especially love this ride because the taxi driver got a kick out of our excitment for each song, even emphasizing, after he popped the trunk, how much he loved those classic songs ¨de su tierra¨...from our land.

Even though this is not the original version (originally recorded i believe by ray charles) I heard on the taxi ride, I found this one and it steals me away too.