I do love a birthday and this week my blog turned five! Here’s a photograph I took in Recoleta Cemetery in December that I’ve only recently been able to upload, having finally got my laptop back from the data-rescue place (mission successful, much to my relief).

Five years ago, I knew I wanted to get my photographs out there and so creating a blog made sense, although I didn’t know what I’d be able to write about Recoleta Cemetery. I remember scribbling the first post on a sheet of A4 in a grand café in Buenos Aires after a failed attempt to go to Uruguay for the day. From then on, something always came to me, often nothing to do with the cemetery at all.

When I was 20, I visited Toronto and decided I wanted to move there. After my final exams at university, I went for a temping job picking fruit and ended up as a receptionist for Caledonian Airways at Gatwick Airport. One day someone came to see the managing director and he had a fancy pen with a stamp at the end, which he used to sign the visitors’ book ‘Worldways Canada’. It turned out the airline was in Toronto and he owned it. He said I could go and work for him and I did.

That experience gave me proof that you don’t have to have everything worked out – you just need to step in the direction of your desires and allow the rest to fall into place. When I saw this photo, I’d forgotten I’d even taken it. I think the angel is saying, “Over here!” She’s like that voice inside trying to draw our attention to who we are and what we really want to do.