Inklilngs 2024

Breathe (translated) Claudia Colina ’25 in a city not too far from here exists a place that my heart still calls home time has passed and things look a little more different but if i close my eyes i am back in my venezuela how i miss you i miss your beaches where the waves move to the rhythm of your people’s laughter a sound orchestrated by mami’s arepas or my grandfather’s tales and now, although i am not in the place my heart calls home, still i can feel the air, crisp with people who think themselves strangers but are really connected brothers and sisters today i ask you smell the cup of café con leche the “mori-soñando” in the Dominican Republic today i ask you breathe in the life that’s taking place all around you, so you remember that moments can slip away as fast as air leaves your lungs so you can remember the beauty in each moment even when things turn gray, smile at hardship and take a deep breath because time is a sly thief and the only thing we have is now. when i breathe i realize that life smells like an untouched gift 3