Iglesia de la Veracruz, Barrio Lastarria, Santiago de Chile

 

La iglesia del barrio Lastarria que sufrió un grave incendio durante el estallido social es la Iglesia de la Veracruz. 

Este templo, declarado Monumento Histórico en 1983, fue incendiado el 12 de noviembre de 2019 por un grupo de encapuchados en medio de las manifestaciones que ocurrían en el sector. 

Detalles relevantes sobre el suceso y el estado del templo:

• Ubicación: Calle José Victorino Lastarria 124, Santiago Centro.
• Daños: El fuego consumió gran parte de su interior, incluyendo el salón principal, el piano, cuadros históricos, mobiliario, puertas y parte del frontis.
• Historia: Fue diseñada originalmente por el arquitecto francés Claude Brunet de Baines y terminada por el chileno Fermín Vivaceta a mediados del siglo XIX.
• Estado actual: Tras permanecer cerrada por varios años, ha pasado por procesos de rehabilitación y se ha mantenido abierta al público en un estado de "ruina abierta" o museo vivo, mostrando las huellas del incendio como parte de su historia reciente. Según reportes de medios como The Clinic y La Tercera, existen proyectos en curso para su restauración definitiva. 

Mission Accomplished

 

My gut isn't always talkative.

                                                         Das bedeutet: KraftWerk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

                                                               Yawohl, mein Schatzie!!!!!

Write a novel. Then what?

 

                                                      Ah, it's wonderful to be a writer!

                                                   ....whole lotta waiting going on!!!

This is the end... my only friend: The End.

Love conquers all.

Ever heard that?

Yep.  It's true.

So the beat goes on...

I am in love.

Just gotta keep biting the bullet,

a little bite each day

between 1.5K and 4.5K at a time

Checking, correcting

then gotta wait for my other Checker/Corrector

to send me his corrections.

Honestly, I'm an old hand at this by now.

I've even translated other people's books. For free.

I've researched, translated, written and published my own books.  Even shipped and sold them.

You need ENERGY to do this shit.

Cause it ain't easy.

It ain't quick.

Now that I am an old lady,

Je ne regrette rien.

This type is called "Inconsolata".

No, I am not that.

I am the opposite.

Consolata.

Isabel de Ilocos y Consolata.

The bigger the Mission

the more bullets you're gonna sweat, Baby.

And you know what, my friends?

This is me.

AND I PROMISE YOU, WHEN YOU GET MY NOVEL

IN YOUR HOT LITTLE HANDS, 

THIS WILL BE YOU.

oF COURSE,

IF YOU DON'T READ SPANISH,

YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A LONGER WAIT.

bUT YOU WILL HAVE YOUR TURN.

I PROMISE.

IT WON'T TAKE 100 YEARS.

(IT'LL JUST FEEL LIKE IT.)

SORRY NA LANG

KAUNTING TIIS, ALAM NINYO.

darating din ang araw

See with your own eyes

 Just do it.

https://rumble.com/v78ne5g-911-see-with-your-own-eyes.html?e9s=src_v1_eh_us

My novel is finished. Doing the final corrections.

 

                                               Begun January 2017 - Finished March 2026

                                                The closest thing to writing a book

                                                         is having a baby.

                                                           Being pregnant for years and years.

                                                                        No husband.

                                                                   You're walking across the Sahara.

Now I am deep in the novel again, rereading and correcting.

It's a whole new stage.

Very intense.

Though in a different way than writing.

I am reexperiencing my characters, I'm more distanced.

I can see lots of things I didn't see when I was creating them

                                                                 Finishing the writing

                                                                     Is a new beginning

Polish the rough diamond.

I feel immense pride, actually.

                                                                 I love my Baby.

                                                           Before too long, she will be

                                                                    shown to the world.

                                                             In swaddling clothes.

                                                                  If all goes well,

                                                                she will become 

                                                                    Your Baby

                                                                     even more.

                                                                      

Casas-hacienda en Perú, Filipinas, Chile, Colombia, México, Cuba.

 

                                                             

Hacienda Limatambo

A hacienda house in 19th century Perú.

They superimposed the old photo over the video but you can appreciate

the grandeur of the Hacienda Limatambo.  This was part of it.

Now I understand why the Spanish pooh-poohed the Filipino hacienda house. In comparison it was the poor relation of these European-style estates in Hispanic-America.

Mexico was one of the richest countries of Hispanic America, a Virreino or Viceroyship.

Meaning it was the royal branch (along with Peru).

A very imperial casa-hacienda.

Casa hacienda San José - Chincha, Perú.

HACIENDA - DIÓCESIS DE IMUS (CAVITE, FILIPINAS)

One can see a unifying architectural aesthetic, though adapted to the tropics.

                                                       Also a photo of Hacienda de Imus.

                                         Casa en Santa Cruz? (The last word is hard to read.)

                              The photo caption in English says that this was a farm house owned by

                         the Augustine friars that was destroyed, 1896.  But it doesn't look destroyed.

                         There are other photos where it does.

HACIENDA BUCALEMU, CHILE:

HACIENDA CAFETERA, COLOMBIA

                                     I believe that this hacienda house is in the "Antillian style",

                                 developed in the Caribbean colonies.

                                    According to Google, some characteristics:

                                      

• Ventilación Cruzada: Uso extensivo de persianas, persianas de madera (persianas) y ventanas amplias que permiten el flujo de aire constante.
• Diseño: A menudo cuentan con amplios corredores o galerías perimetrales para generar sombra y espacios de descanso. 

Casa hacienda Trinidad de Cuba

Declarado también como Patrimonio de la Humanidad, se levanta majestuoso en Trinidad de Cuba el Valle de los Ingenios. El sitio aún conserva las casas haciendas que en el siglo XVIII convirtieron a la villa en uno de los lugares que más producía caña de azúcar, gracias al trabajo esclavo. 

Another beautiful casa-hacienda in Cuba:

                                                      Hacienda Fraternidad

Here it has clearly been renovated.

                                                        We appreciate the setting.

Video of Rizal done with AI: First (and Last) Visit to the U.S.

 

Of course, he wouldn't have carried his own wooden luggage.

He would have had a bigger trunk, lined with leather, the kind that opened up and 

you could hang clothes in.

Below are examples of traveling trunks in the late 19th century:

                                                        This trunk was made of rattan.

He was able to finance the trip to Japan and the U.S. because he had saved a lot of money during his stay in Calamba from July 1887 to February 1888, treating patients, many of whom could pay him well.

Especially because there were few opthalmologists of his calibre outside or even in Manila.

Rizal was also trained in general medicine before he specialized in opthalmology 

in Dr. Wecker's Paris clinic.

José Rizal in America ... Journey Across the US)

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?hl=es&shva=1#inbox/QgrcJHsHkJzGgnWdKqghtTcsVBXbhLQbZxb?projector=1

Worth watching.

A longer version could be made that directly quotes from Rizal's diary.  It is true that one of his important themes was racism, which was hardly mentioned in the little we learned about him in our lessons in the 1970s.

This is excellent, I love to see the living, breathing portrayal of Rizal.