TO MY FRIENDS, and everyone else! With my pictures of our Guatemalan gardens and scenery!

There are people, in our lives, who make us happier,

just for the simple fact of having crossed our path.

Some walk alongside us, seeing together many moons go by.
Others, we, fleetingly see them in the lapse
between one of our steps and the following…
We call them, all, friends!

But there are many types among them.

Every leaf in a tree or a plant symbolizes one of them.
The first ones sprouted from our parents.

They show us what life is.
Afterwards… the brothers, the children, the friends,

with whom we share our space, so they are able to bloom
as we have bloomed before!

Our fate introduces to us other types of friends
we did not know were going to cross our paths.
We call some of them… soul mates,
because they are sincere and true.
They brighten our eyes,

are music in our lips
and agility in our feet...

There are also those who are our friends

for just some time,

maybe during vacations, some days, some hours…
They also, make smiles shine in our faces
while they and we spend time together.

The time passes by, the summer goes away,
and our autums get nearer every day.
then, we lose some of our leaves...
some re-birth in other summers,
others remain alive almost forever.

But what bring us happiness is those leaves,
that, even fallen, stay with us,

feeding our roots with gladness,

and marvelous remembrances
of the time we were together,

simply because each person
that enters into our life is unique.

They always leave something of them behind,
and take a bit of us with them, when leaving...
Evident proof that souls

do not meet each other just by chances!