Sunday, June 28, 2009

El Proyecto Amor Ya Empezó

The Love Project (El Proyecto Amor) has officially started!

Day 1
Location: Parque de Analco, Puebla, Mexico
Date: June 26, 2009
Time: Noon


Couple 1: Fernando and Claudia
Have been a couple for 8 months

(Continue reading to meet the other first couples in Proyecto amor)


Couple 2: Raul and Laura
7 years



Couple 3: Gabriela and Alan
11 months
"Trust is the most important thing to make a relationship work"



Couple 4: Valeria and Paco
3 years
"The key to a good relationship is to be yourself and not pretend to be somebody else..."



Couple 5: Nelly and Jafet
1 month
"Trust is the most important thing"



Couple 6: Catherine and Raul
4 months
"Trust"



Couple 7: Gustavo and Ana
Have been friends for many years and recently started dating
"El amor es el motor de cada día"-Love is the engine of every day

..Y que bueno es perder
lo que amamos

porque lamentablemente
solo así se descubre
lo que amabamos..."


...and how good to lose the one you love

because sadly
only like that, we are able to discover
what we once used to love...


After telling Ana and Gustavo a little bit about my project, Gustavo took up his cellphone and read out loud some of the love poems that he had written. It was a very touching moment to sit there on a bench with two strangers listening to a love poem in the middle of the day.

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Dreamdayproject Unplugged

I am back! This time with a short performance...

I was about to start working on my website yesterday when I found this song on the Internet that I hadn´t heard for many years. I took up an old guitar that hadn´t been played on for just as long and started playing. I didn´t do any progress on my website but I had a very nice morning drinking coffee and playing this song over and over again.

I think this is a part of a dreamday for me, to allow myself to take a break from what I was supposed to do and just let myself do whatever I feel like; Without any goal or plan, just doing what makes me happy in this moment.

Here is the Dreamdayproject, unplugged, live in Puebla, Mexico:

(The song is called Maria, många mil och år från här and it is written by John Holm. )


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