Embers of Hope
Separated from the familiar comforts of family and home, I have felt the winds of change transforming the whispers of the wilderness into secrets that only its rugged terrain could decipher

Separated from the familiar comforts of family and home, I have felt the winds of change transforming the whispers of the wilderness into secrets that only its rugged terrain could decipher

Umuulan sa España. That one line from the song that set the mood for the rain I was experiencing.


In our haste to get to our location we routinely rocket past charming, delightful places. Sometimes we don’t even see them thanks to all the planning and work put into our highway system.

Return to the days when you felt life was an open slate and not an optimization algorithm with a badly behaving cost function.

I thought about lying. Nobody knew anything about me. I could have told them anything I wanted, and they would have never known better, this was before the internet, and I was a long way from Nebraska.


Suddenly it stopped. He had made a big mistake: he was not running away from his pursuer, but he was getting closer to him; in fact, it was facing him, looking in the opposite direction.

There were already students sitting in the chairs when Angie and I arrived. She wanted to sit at the back because she doesn’t want to be seen by the professor in case she falls asleep.

Intoxicated with the night air, you feel like you could do anything and you wouldn’t be judged. So you do. You sit in the middle of the road, you do handstands, and you let loose. It feels like you’ve been embraced by a warm blanket that is cool to the touch.

Let us compare coffee to life itself. Imagine the dark, bitter coffee as a representation of our toughest moments—the times when things get rough, and we can’t help but feel a bit down. But fear not, my friends! Just like sugar sweetens our coffee, imagine those moments of triumph, the victories that bring smiles to our faces and fill us with joy.

As day goes by, Jackson would always treat Nick like a normal team member but there’s just a small difference from the rest. Example, whenever he would treat the whole team for a hot coffee, he would give an extra two sachet of creamer to Nick because he knows that the latter wants his coffee creamy.