Sandy Manrique

01/22/2023

No acepten mi solicitud de Facebook nueva, no soy yo 🙏
Please don’t accept a new Facebook account with my name, it’s not me 🤪

04/20/2022

We come into the world with a clean hard drive.Later, stuck in reality, we collect ideas, perspectives that are not ours.We stumble through childhood and adolescence.We believe that in the 20's we reach an ideal.We like how we see ourselves and what we do...if we are lucky we know love.Then 30 arrives and heading towards 40 you realize that nothing on the outside matters.You recognize that there is work to accept who you have been since you were a child....

We come into the world with a clean hard drive.Later, stuck in reality, we collect ideas, perspectives that are not ours.We stumble through childhood and adolescence.We believe that in the 20& #8217…

04/19/2022

So many stories mix in my brain,Alessandro's eagerness to keep rolling over even when he gets tired.His bright eyes when he looks himself in the mirror before smiling.The appointment with my MS doctor, her gentle smile and help to get me back Copaxone.The milestones that Alessandro reached and for which a new friend asked me on the phone....

So many stories mix in my brain,Alessandro’s eagerness to keep rolling over even when he gets tired.His bright eyes when he looks himself in the mirror before smiling.The appointment with my …

02/07/2022

We have been drowning on a to do list that we have never taken time to simplify.Our life would be so different if we just take care of things that matters to us, that click with our vision of our life. We want to see wanderlust…dumb hearts full of expectations looking to fill our lives with the magnificent and not knowing that the magnificence is already within our reach....

We have been drowning in a to do list that we have never taken time to simplify.Our life would be so different if we just take care of things that matters to us, that click with our vision of our l…

01/22/2022

Today is a special day. Today is when I finished my Quarantine due Covid. I needed to travel to Mexico for a week and came back testing positive at Toronto Pearsons Airport. I wonder how my PCR done in Mexico was negative just couple days before that. I know it was God. It was God who let me go, support my family back home and come back to my little family....

 Today is a special day. Today is when I finished my Quarantine due Covid.  I needed to travel to Mexico for a week and came back testing positive at Toronto Pearsons Airport. I wonder ho…

12/15/2021

I already knew God exists, whatever name you want to give him/het. Alessandro came to confirm it. His crying on December 2nd at 11:28 am was something I won’t forget. I remember the moment and feel I feel humbly grateful to be part of this circle of life. There was a moment that I saw motherhood from the sidelines. I wouldn’t dare to…...

I already knew God exists, whatever name you want to give him/het. Alessandro came to confirm it. His crying on December 2nd at 11:28 am was something I won’t forget. I remember the moment and feel…

12/01/2021

I want to remember this morning.Another morning we woke up with no news about the baby.Our little one is still very active, but happy to be inside my womb.My husband took me for a walk, my slow walk in nature.Of course, my nervous system caused me to drag my right foot on our way back, but you know?...

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I want to remember this morning.Another morning we woke up with no news about the baby.Our little one is still very active, but happy to be inside my womb.My husband took me for a walk, my slow wal…

11/30/2021

I learn from my mom than even doing the dishes requires a state of peace, even more when you are creating.

There are things that irritates me.  The most common is trying to use a new feature on social Media or trying to watch my favourite show on TV. So many apps stressed me out 🤨 Sometimes I …

11/29/2021

Call it a crazy story, it’s just happening to me. The easiest thing that I have done these days has been the most rewarding. It’s not about being the best documentary photographer as I tought I needed to be, it’s ’s just about honouring what makes me proud of myself and writing about it. It’s being aware of the special moments that come our ay when you don’t feel like not doing something in particular....

Call it a crazy story, it’s just happening to me. The easiest thing that I have done these days has been the most rewarding. It’s not about being the best documentary photographer as I tought I nee…

11/28/2021

The snow falls slowly, no haste.Flakes that nest in the ceilings and on the sleeve of my parka.I do my prayer on the balcony of our apartment.I pray for the world, our people, our baby …I tell him that he can come now.That he already let my belly to enjoy nature in all its states....

The snow falls slowly, no haste.Flakes that nest in the ceilings and on the sleeve of my parka.I do my prayer on the balcony of our apartment.I pray for the world, our people, our baby …I tell him …

11/27/2021

Pregnancy documentary photos using available light

The question has been hunting myself since many years ago has been “How to be yourself”? The tricky part about answering it is that it is crystal clear until get all messed up when interacting with…

11/17/2021

Wait! There's something wrong in here. I just had an Aha! moment.... Today is not the first time I realized that my vision about my relationships has been all wrong, but going back to a moment in 2017 I just found that my internal chatter has tricked me all these years. Now I know I would be so happy to go back to all my "dramatic and sad" past moments because I think I just got them wrong....

Wait! There’s something wrong in here. I just had an Aha! moment…. Today is not the first time I realized that my vision about my relationships has been all wrong, but going back to a m…