...it's kind of funny, since my wife uses her machetes (she's got 3 of them, one from Colombia, and two from garage sales here in Iowa) for yard work and mostly for tending to her flower garden.
Flowers are very important in Colombia.
In my wife's culture, it is believed that flowers keep your house from feeling sad.
We have lots of flowers in our house.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37494029
Colombia Farc ceasefire: The man who photographed a little-pictured war
Or this last photograph, with which we close this story and which, in some way, manages to encapsulate what Jesus Abad Colorado Lopez (referred to in Colombia as the "the witnesses' witness"
, tries to achieve in all his work: "Don't forget, remember, mourn and find justice."
And offer hope.
Ana Felicia Velaquez, who returned to the house she had been forced to flee during the war, bringing flowers so the house "would not feel sad"
I don't know how to help children get over their fears of butterflies.
At times they are intimate, not epic photographs, like this butterfly which landed on the ammunition of a paramilitary. He only reluctantly allowed his photo to be taken, as he thought his masculinity was being questioned.
Butterflies make Colombia great.