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El loco y el mar
El Fotógrafo took this photo in 1989. He was walking along the Malecon, in Miraflores, when he saw a man standing on the cliffs, waving a stick back and forth in front of the ocean, like a conductor. There were no violins or flutes or kettle drums — just the crashing of the waves on the rocks below. The stick rose in the air, sliced down, swept to the right, then rose again. He swayed back and forth, then lifted his finger to his lips: Shush. El Fotógrafo calls this diptych “Creador.” Creator.
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First Post in Four Years
Hi, everyone. This is my first post more than four years. I didn’t have time to blog for several reasons: (1) I was teaching full time at UPC, and (2) We had to care for my dad, who had Alzheimer’s. We moved him to Peru in March 2011 (not coincidentally, the last month I blogged). Those responsibilities made it difficult, if not impossible, for me to keep up with the weekly demands of writing a good blog, so I let An American in Lima just continue on autopilot, without adding anything new. El Fotógrafo, El Híjo and I moved back to the United States in 2014, so we are now…
