originally posted on monday9am.tv on 11th October 2007.

As my ability to recognise the soul of this country flickers in and out of focus, it appears that Guatemala’s proximity to its land is more intentional than just the ability to feed itself.

We all tread our ground but I imagine too few of us to be inextricably connected to it. To understand its importance. To exist as a graceful part of it.

It seems to me that many in this quite extraordinary nation never forgot.