01/03/2021
It seems like it was yesterday, starting a new year, happy to dream about a summer wedding in the beautiful landscape in the Sierra of Durango Mexico. With the pine trees surrounding us, the warmth of the lake radiating, and our guests joining us in the beautiful cabins provided for their stay.
The new year found me with an abundance of projects, opportunities, and the ability to do what I love the most, spend time traveling and spending time with friends.
February I was able to make a trip that changed my life. Internal emotions on that road trip had me feeling as if it was preparing me for something new in my life. All around me, landmark after landmark, city after city, state after state, the sense that nothing will be the same. I felt uneasiness in the air but was able to see the omens all around me. Those slight reminders showed me that in the battle that was to come, I would not be alone.
Come March, one project after another started to postpone, others canceled from the get go. What felt like one L after another, they kept coming. Before I knew it, every project booked, every opportunity, they had disappeared.
As media focused on a growing pandemic, and the administration of the United States swept it under the rug, I had no other choice but to flow with it. From there, the idea for .bron started to brew. I learned to sew and as my head started to churn out ideas quicker than the rising numbers of cases, my cousin and I covered the faces of hundreds of people in the first month.
As the time kept rolling through, with every turn of the wheel, it brought challenges. The people I love and care about around me became my number one priority. To keep them safe and healthy, I sacrificed my love for travel, my interactions with friends on a physical level, my dreams of that wedding in the Sierras of Durango Mexico.
It was very difficult, mentally, I was tired. Then in August, Roció came for an extended visit, it was the best birthday present I could have ever dreamt of. This brought a happiness into my life that it cannot be expressed in writing. To understand what it meant to have another person by your side willing to battle along any challenge