"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a single step”, uncertain phrase by Napoleon Bonaparte, used by my cousin Ana Cecilia every time she sees photos of her childhood and youth, spent by the beaches of her native Puerto La Cruz.
Ana Cecilia was born and raised in a little oil camp where her father worked, located in the Bay of Guanta, Venezuela. Guanta is embedded in one of the most beautiful tropical areas of the world, Mochima National Park, which contains a number of Caribbean islands and beaches that are now only in her dreams. "When Friday arrived it was: shoes and clothes off, swimsuits on and go barefooted!" says Ana remembering her school days, rewarded by weekends full of rides with neighbors and friends in the family boat, heading to Chimana, Isla Grande, Playa El Saco, Puinare, Conoma, Isla El Faro among other beaches located in her backyard.
Due to political persecution by the current government of Venezuela upon her father and most of the workers of the national oil company of Venezuela PDVSA (with a single stroke of the pen, 21,000 of the most skilled oil workers of the world were fired) Ana Cecilia and her family had to emigrate to Calgary, Alberta, Canada. There her father can work in peace, and her family has been established. Ana is a student at the University of Calgary and they have a little house with an overlooking view of the Rocky Mountains. But when the temperature intensifies and reaches 40 °F below, and she is with a red nose, wrapped in coats, scarves and snow boots inside the house, she always looks with nostalgia her childhood photos in a bikini, and sighs: "from the sublime to the ridiculous "
Ana Cecilia was born and raised in a little oil camp where her father worked, located in the Bay of Guanta, Venezuela. Guanta is embedded in one of the most beautiful tropical areas of the world, Mochima National Park, which contains a number of Caribbean islands and beaches that are now only in her dreams. "When Friday arrived it was: shoes and clothes off, swimsuits on and go barefooted!" says Ana remembering her school days, rewarded by weekends full of rides with neighbors and friends in the family boat, heading to Chimana, Isla Grande, Playa El Saco, Puinare, Conoma, Isla El Faro among other beaches located in her backyard.
Due to political persecution by the current government of Venezuela upon her father and most of the workers of the national oil company of Venezuela PDVSA (with a single stroke of the pen, 21,000 of the most skilled oil workers of the world were fired) Ana Cecilia and her family had to emigrate to Calgary, Alberta, Canada. There her father can work in peace, and her family has been established. Ana is a student at the University of Calgary and they have a little house with an overlooking view of the Rocky Mountains. But when the temperature intensifies and reaches 40 °F below, and she is with a red nose, wrapped in coats, scarves and snow boots inside the house, she always looks with nostalgia her childhood photos in a bikini, and sighs: "from the sublime to the ridiculous "
My cousin Ana Cecilia Gomez Blesa lives, laughs and suffers in the city of Calgary, Canada; she is the daughter of my aunt Cecilia Gomez, sister of my mother.
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