Armando Salazar Larrea

Being a parent involves remembering and trying to understand what it was like to be a child. The memory of the past and expectations for the future go hand in hand.  To be a father is to be a mirror and a shadow: the shadow that protects, the shadow that covers, the shadow that shelters, the shadow that darkens.  While I look into my children's futures my father's shadow is omnipresent, a specter against which I carefully choose my own path.  The cycle I have explored repeats itself generation after generation. Like so many parents, I try to make things go better this time