Almanac Life: Venezuela Earthquakes

 

 

Venezuela Earthquakes

 

Being married to a Venezuelan is a gift. My wife’s culture, colour, music and food, radiate through our dinky little bush cabin, and our lives. These things have added to me, our community, and the world as a whole, time after time. To have Simón Díaz song filling the house, while she prepares arepa, in love with living, kangaroos filling our yard, is the absolute best of both worlds.

 

Going there can be tricky, to say the least, but one of the joys of my life, when we did, was packing into the tray of a ute with about 12-15 other family members, and winding our way down to a shallow, lazy river, where people swam and fished with nets and cooked and played music and sipped from shared bottles of rum, and did things easy and slow. It felt like everybody was there, all of Venezuela, all its many, varied people, struck in a moment, both timeless and superb, with my wife and baby girl.

 

There are down sides, too. I get to see, up close, the political hardship of a people who deserve so much more, to feel the difficulty of distance, and, now, the pain of earthquakes and their toll.

 

Caracas is a layer cake of a city. Nothing but high-rise. As of typing this 70,000 souls are unaccounted for.

 

But my wife is a do-er, a fighter. As a leader of her community, she has been working day and night with others to help her people.

 

If you can, come down to the Footscray market this Sunday 5 July. There will be colour and noise and no doubt music… and, of course, food. Even if you don’t donate anything, it’s a big but small planet, one world, it would be great to know you’re around.

 

Matt x

 

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