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a-serial-story-blog · 5 years ago

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The Monster of the Andes: The True Story of a Man who got Away with the Murders of 300 Girls

Pedro Alonso Lopez was born on October 8, 1948, in Colombia to a prostitute; he was the seventh of fourteen children. He was subjected to physical abuse at the hands of his mother and mental abuse as he was present when men came into the house to sleep with his mother. He often watched these men beat his mother so, with them being his only male role models, it doesn’t come as a surprise that he assaulted one of his younger sisters. His mother kicked him out of the house because of his behavior. Pedro was eight years old.

Pedro was living on the streets when a man approached him with the promise of a soft bed and warm food. Pedro, being eight and fairly innocent, thought this was an amazing offer and he readily followed the man. As you can probably guess, there was no soft bed and no warm food waiting for them. There was only the filthy floor of an abandoned warehouse where the man raped and assaulted Pedro. The time that Pedro spent with this man is different depending on the source, but it can be agreed upon that he spent at least a week and maybe as long as several months there.

Pedro eventually got away from this man and he returned to living on the streets for a time. When he was ten, an American couple took him in and cared for him. They sent Pedro to a school for children and orphans where he claimed to have been assaulted by a male teacher but this was never proven. Pedro, once again, returned to the streets. In order to survive, Pedro became a petty thief and he eventually escalated to carjackings. He sold the cars to local chop shops to earn some money. In 1966, when he was eighteen, Pedro was arrested for car theft and sentenced to 12 years in jail. While in jail, Pedro was gang-raped by four of his inmates who he later killed.

Pedro was released from jail in 1978 and he moved to Peru shortly afterward. It was at this time that Pedro began kidnapping and murdering young girls. He killed several girls before some of the native Peruvian tribesmen caught him attempting to lure a ten-year-old away. According to tribal traditions, a man like Pedro should be subjected to torture in the form of being buried alive and left in the ground until he died. This was almost the end of him, but an American missionary who was living with the tribe convinced them to turn Pedro over to the Peruvian police instead. The Peruvian Police Department didn’t want to deal with Pedro so they deported him to Ecuador without a trial.

Pedro was almost caught and arrested for attempting to kidnap a young girl and the police probably would have been able to find his murderous history with a little digging. This should have scared Pedro for at least a short amount of time but he, instead, began the biggest killing spree of his life. He claimed to average about three girls per week around this time. A missing persons file this large did not go unnoticed by the police. Unfortunately, instead of looking into it, they chalked the missing girls up to sex trafficking. A flash flood in 1980 helped push the police onto the right track when the bodies of four young girls were uncovered by the floodwaters. The police quickly realized that they had a serial killer on their hands and began their investigations. Pedro proved incapable of learning from his past mistakes and was again caught trying to lure a girl away from her mother. Pedro was brought into police custody and they began their interrogations.

Pedro refused to cooperate with any of the officers so they sent in an undercover officer who posed as a cellmate. Pedro quickly confessed to killing approximately 300 girls. He said he would roam public areas like marketplaces and schoolyards looking for pretty and innocent looking young girls. Once he picked the girl he wanted, he would lure her away with the promise of snacks and money. Pedro would then kidnap the girl and keep her overnight, sometimes in the grave that she was to buried in. In the morning, Pedro put his victim in a grave that contained the decomposing remains of his previous victims. Pedro would then rape the girl and strangle her until the life left her body. He told police that he couldn’t kill the girls at night because it was too dark and he wouldn’t be able to watch them die.

The police were shocked and very skeptical but now that he had confessed, Pedro was intent on making everyone believe him so he offered to take them to one of his mass graves. Pedro led the police to a gravesite containing the bodies of nearly 60 girls and, just like that, the police realized they might be dealing with a real-life monster.

There are three very different versions of Pedro’s trial and punishment so I will have them separated below.

Version 1

Pedro was found guilty of 110 murders and, in 1980, given life in a prison in Colombia. After 20 years in prison, Pedro was taken in the middle of the night to the Colombia/Peru border and released. He has not been heard from since.

Version 2

In 1980, Pedro was found guilty of 110 murders and given 16 years in prison in Ecuador. The short prison term was because Ecuador had a maximum prison sentence of 16 years at the time, but it has since been extended to 25 years. After 14 years, Pedro was released on good behavior. He was deported to Colombia where he was declared insane and institutionalized in 1995. Three years later, Pedro was declared sane and released on $50 bail. He has not been seen since.

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In 1980, Pedro was found guilty of 110 murders and given 16 years in an Ecuadorian prison but he was declared insane during the trial so it was determined that he would serve out those 16 in a psych ward. He was declared sane after 14 years and released on $50 bail. He also had several rules he had to follow and he was assigned enforcement officers that he had to check in with periodically. He immediately escaped his enforcement officers and has not been heard from since.

Despite these differing endings, the common thread is that Pedro Alonso Lopez, one of the most horrific serial killers in history, was found guilty of brutally assaulting and murdering over 100 girls between the ages of 8 and 15. He could have killed up to 300 girls but the other 200 murder claims could not be proven. For these horrific crimes, the Monster of the Andes received a slap on the wrist and was set loose on a country that was still reeling from his atrocious crimes.

This is not the end of the story, however. In 2002, the body of a young girl was discovered and the MO matched that of Pedro Lopez. Pedro would have just turned 70 last month so it is entirely possible that he is still out there, looking for his next victim.

Thank you guys so much for taking the time to read this. This was a very frustrating case to research because it’s so difficult to understand how a man was able to get away with so much horror and evil. The ending was also frustrating because there has been no report of Pedro Lopez being seen anywhere. Sorry to start you off with a really dark and unsettling case that had no closure whatsoever but when I read a little bit into this I couldn’t move on to anything else.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this case and what you think I should talk about next.

https://www.thoughtco.com/pedro-alonso-lopez-the-monster-of-the-andes-973173

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/pedro-alonso-lopez

https://allthatsinteresting.com/pedro-lopez

https://www.9news.com.au/world/pedro-lopez-worlds-second-worst-serial-killer-walked-free-from-prison/2be19c5c-95c5-44e2-8dd1-3253319a34e5

https://historydaily.org/the-monster-of-the-andes-no-one-knows-were-this-serial-killer-is-hiding-now

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sinrau · 4 years ago

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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage around the world, some of the largest outbreaks are in countries that fall into one particular economic category. They’re not rich. They’re not poor. They’re middle income.

In fact, of the countries reporting the most cases globally, 6 of 7 are middle-income nations.

And they’re not just any middle-income countries. They’re some of the most influential players in the global south. Brazil, India, Mexico, Peru, Russia and South Africa are not only major emerging market economies, they’re regional political powers.

Middle-income countries are defined by the World Bank as having annual per capita income between $1,000 and $12,000. The U.S., by comparison (the one high-income country in the top 7), has an average annual income of $66,000.

In mid-July, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called the pandemic the “gravest crisis in the history of our democracy” as he reimposed strict lockdown measures.

South Africa has now reported nearly a half-million cases of the coronavirus. Health officials project cases to continue to rise at least into September. And the impact of the pandemic goes far beyond the number of sick or dead. South Africa’s borders remain closed. Nonessential workplaces remain shut. The country’s official unemployment rate, which had been in the mid-20% range, was pushed above 30% by the pandemic.

Indeed, the strain on countries in the middle-income category is tremendous. And the number of people affected is huge. According to the World Bank, 75% of the world’s population live in middle-income countries.

Collectively over the past decade, these countries have lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty.

Amanda Glassman, the executive vice president of the Center for Global Development, says these countries have a lot to lose in this pandemic.

“Most of their populations in this group would fall back into poverty given a shock like this one,” she says.

For instance, Brazil’s economy is expected to shrink by as much as 6.5% this year because of the coronavirus crisis. Brazil has the second-highest number of cases after the U.S. Nearly 100,000 people have died. The president and several of his top ministers have been infected. And as the pandemic continues to spread, more and more Brazilians are losing work.

“Even a country like Brazil that was so wealthy, 90% of the country earned less than $10 a day,” Glassman says.

“I’m worried that we’re setting back the process of economic and social development that has gone so quickly over the past decade,” she says. “And it will take us many years to catch back up.”

The entrepreneurial spirit that made countries like India, Brazil and South Africa dynamic emerging markets also put them at greater risk of having large outbreaks. These are places with a lot of “hustle,” as Glassman puts it. Their economies were global. Business travelers and tourists jetted in and out. They have decent domestic transportation networks offering the coronavirus or other pathogens easy avenues to spread. They have health systems capable of detecting the disease.

“In India, for example, they’re doing a lot of testing,” says Jonathon Keymer, an intelligence analyst at the global risk management firm WorldAware. “In Russia, they’re doing a lot of testing. The more people you test, the more confirmed cases you’re going to have.”

Keymer specializes in Russia and the former Soviet bloc countries for WorldAware and has also been modeling the impact of COVID-19 in these nations.

He says some middle-income countries globally look worse than others in this pandemic simply because they are open, dynamic societies and their case numbers are being reported. But that’s not true everywhere.

He points out that both Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, two middle-income former Soviet states, have reintroduced nationwide lockdowns in the past couple of weeks despite reported case numbers remaining relatively low.

“And then in Turkmenistan, which is a much more difficult place to get information about, they’ve closed the borders and I don’t think they’ve officially got a single case of COVID,” Keymer says. “But you can bet your bottom dollar that they’ve got COVID.”

The World Health Organization has raised alarms about Turkmenistan despite its continued insistence that it has no cases.

But on paper at least Turkmenistan looks like it has far less of a COVID-19 problem than Peru, which has tested aggressively and openly reported results. Peru has a testing rate of roughly 70,000 tests per 1 million people — a rate more than five times the global average.

Tanzania is another middle-income country reporting remarkably few infections. The east African nation actually hasn’t officially reported any cases to WHO since April, when the president declared that the virus had been driven out of his country by prayer.

Even with the marked differences in middle income countries — everything from governance to public sentiment to economic structure — there are certain commonalities. It is clear that middle-income countries face similar risks as wealthier nations for coronavirus outbreaks but have far fewer resources to deal with them.

Interestingly, the relative wealth of a middle-income country appears to have little to do with how many infections it has.

Deborah Barros Leal Farias, a lecturer at the University of New South Wales, says the experience of middle-income countries shows that a nation’s economic status doesn’t determine its success in battling this pandemic. “If you take the U.S., the U.K. and Sweden, they are also having horrible numbers,” Farias says. “And then you can take a country like Vietnam or Thailand and they’re having phenomenal numbers.”

She says the real issue in keeping case counts down — even more than resources — appears to be leadership.

Of the four countries with the most cases globally — the U.S. and three middle-income nations: Brazil, India and Russia — all have conservative or right-wing leaders who espouse populist or anti-science views.

In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro downplayed the seriousness of the disease as tens of thousands of Brazilians died from COVID. Even when he tested positive for it himself, Bolsonaro continued to tout the anti-malarial drug hydrochloroquine as a cure despite studies showing it wasn’t effective against the virus.

Ester Sabino, a virologist at the University of Sao Paulo, says Brazil never had a cohesive national plan for how to address the outbreak and she says Bolsonaro has been a distraction.

“In April and May, the main discussion [in Brazil] was whether we should or should not use chloroquine instead of saying how do we stop this,” Sabino says. “There was not a good plan. That’s my opinion. A lot of time was spent on things that were not the key things for the control of the disease.”

Research by Sabino and her colleagues shows there were more than 100 different introductions of the virus into Brazil in the early days of the pandemic, mostly from travelers who had been in Europe. Then the virus spread to every corner of the vast country.

Lockdowns managed to slow the initial explosive spread, but Sabino says there needs to be more focus to contain the ongoing outbreak.

“There is no magic. There is no free lunch. If you want to control epidemic, it’s hard,” she says. “And you have to work a lot. We can’t think about politics.”

And that appears to hold true regardless of whether a country is rich, poor or somewhere in the middle.

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brigdh · 7 years ago

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A Tyranny of Queens by Foz Meadows. The sequel to the portal fantasy I read last month. Most of the plot here is fallout from the climax of that book: Saffron has returned back to Earth from the fantasy world of Kena, but can she re-adjust to a 'normal' life? And if not, what choices will she make? Yena's adopted sister died in the final battle, but can Yena reclaim religious rights for her sister's funeral and learn more about her mysterious heritage? The evil king has been overthrown, but escaped – where is he and what caused his actions? What's up with the mysterious magic artifact he left behind in the castle? Sadly, I didn't like this book nearly as much as its predecessor. The biggest problem is simply a shift in the use of characters; whereas the first book divided its pages fairly evenly among a vast cast, A Tyranny of Queens is hugely dominated by Saffron and Yena. And I'm sorry to say it, but they're the most boring characters in this series. Both are an example of the 'normal teen girl dealing with events outside her experience' archetype, which is a fine enough archetype as far as it goes, but not one that's particularly exciting unless you give her some sort of distinctive personality trait, anything other than 'determined', 'hard-working', 'smart'. Buffy wanted to date boys and wear cute clothes; Katniss wanted to be left alone and was unexpectedly ruthless; Saffron wants... ? The characters who did grab my attention in An Accident of Stars are pushed mostly off-screen here. Yasha, the grumpy, staff-wielding elderly matriarch who was revealed late in the first book to be an exiled queen, gets something like ten lines of dialogue in this entire book. Viya, the young, spoiled but trying hard to improve noblewoman who is named co-ruler of Kena at the end of the first book, and thus should be navigating the delicate balance of maintaining equality of power while still learning to handle so much responsibility, gets literally two scenes out of three hundred pages. And so on through a whole list of really cool characters. Instead we get multiple chapters of Saffron arguing with her guidance counselor, then her parents, then her social worker over whether she should apologize to one of her high school teachers over a minor incident caused by a bully. Exciting fantasy! My second problem with the book, unfortunately, is much more fundamental. The plot revolves around discovering that the evil king wasn't really evil after all, but was brainwashed. I'm sure this is an attempt to do an interesting redemption arc, or to look at how even the worst-seeming villains have their reasons, but it didn't work for me at all. It felt like a cop-out to remove blame from the king by passing it on to a historic figure from centuries ago (who never gets an explanation for his evil actions, so Meadows hasn't really complicated the role of villains so much as pushed the question a few steps outside the main narrative). None of the many people who died in the wars he started or were tortured in his pursuit of knowledge get a voice in this second book, so I kept feeling as though the suffering he caused was conveniently being swept under the rug to get readers to feel sorry for him. In addition, for a book that tries so hard to be progressive, ending with 'it's not the king's fault! He was manipulated by a foreign woman who made him fall in love with her!' is, uh... not a great look. All in all, a disappointing book. But there was enough good about the series that I'll give the author another chance. The Written World: How Literature Shaped Civilization by Martin Puchner. A nonfiction book that makes its way through human history via the medium of literature. Each of sixteen chapters focuses on a particular classic and shows how it both influenced and was influenced by contemporary events, from Homer's Odyssey giving Alexander the Great a hero to model himself after to The Communist Manifesto inspiring revolutions across the world. A subthread is the development of the technologies of literature itself – the inventions of the alphabet, paper, the printing press, ebooks, etc. It's a pretty neat idea for a book! Unfortunately the execution is terrible. I started off being annoyed that Puchner never seems quite clear on what he means by the term 'literature'. He implies it only includes written works (in the Introduction he says, "It was only when storytelling intersected with writing that literature was born."), and yet many of the pieces he choses to focus on were primarily composed orally (The Odyssey and the Iliad, The Epic of Sunjata, the Popul Vuh, probably the Epic of Gilgamesh, certainly at least parts of One Thousand and One Nights). And yet there's never any discussion of what it means to go from an oral mode to a written one, a topic I was eagerly awaiting to see analyzed. It's just... never addressed beyond a passing mention here and there. Okay, fine, I thought to myself, Puchner means 'literature' as in 'stories'. But that doesn't work either, since once again many of his choices don't tell any sort of narrative (Saint Paul's letters, Martin Luther's theses, Benjamin Franklin's 'Poor Richard's Almanac', Confucius's Analects, Mao's 'Little Red Book'). So what does Puchner mean by literature, the central organizing principle of his whole book? God alone knows. My irritation with the book deepened when I got to Chapter Four, where Puchner claims credit for inventing the concept of the Axial Age: "It was only in the course of trying to understand the story of literature that I noticed a striking pattern in the teaching of the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus. Living within a span of a few hundred years but without knowing of one another, these teachers revolutionized the world of ideas. Many of today’s philosophical and religious schools—Indian philosophy, Chinese philosophy, Western philosophy, and Christianity—were shaped by these charismatic teachers. It was almost as if in the five centuries before the Common Era, the world was waiting to be instructed, eager to learn new ways of thinking and being. But why? And what explained the emergence of these teachers?" Sure, dude, sure. You came up with this vastly original idea all on your own. (To be fair, if one choses to read through the endnotes, Puchner does cite Karl Jaspers, though he still insists his own version is ~so different~.) He then proceeds to get basic information about the Buddha completely wrong. For example: Some form of writing may have existed in India during the Buddha’s time (the so-called Indus Valley script may not have been a full writing system and remains undeciphered). This sentence. I can't even. I almost stopped reading the book right here, it's so incredibly incorrect. It's like saying, "Thomas Jefferson may have been literate, but since we find no Latin engravings in his house, we can't be sure." Let me lay out the problems. The Buddha lived around 500BCE; the last known well-accepted use of the Indus script was in 1900BCE. That's a gap of nearly two millennia. The Indus script was used on the western edge of South Asia, in Pakistan and the Indian states of Gujarat and Haryana; the Buddha lived on the eastern edge, in Nepal. At minimum, they're 500 miles apart. There is no chance in hell the Indus script was remotely relevant to writing about the Buddha. And in fact, we don't need to guess at the script of the Buddha's time and place. It's called Brahmi and it's quite well attested – though Puchner doesn't once mention it. He does include a photo of an Indus seal, because why not waste more space on utterly irrelevant information. Let's quickly go through the problems on the rest of this single page: What mattered above all were the age-old hymns and stories of the Vedas, which were transmitted orally by specially appointed Brahmans for whom remembering the Vedas was an obligation and a privilege. Though the Vedas do have an important oral history, they were certainly written down by the time of the Buddha, and possibly as early as 1000BCE. The oldest Indian epic, the Ramayana, was also orally composed and only later written down, much like Homeric epics. The Mahabharata is generally considered to be the older of the two epics. Despite my disillusionment at this point, I continued on with the book. And to be fair, I noticed many fewer mistakes! Though possibly because I know much less about Renaissance Germany or Soviet Russia than I do about Indian history. I did hit several problems again in the chapter on the Popul Vuh, the Mayan epic. To begin with, the chapter opens with a long dramatic scene recreating the Spanish conquistadores' capture of Atahualpa, the Incan emperor. Incan. Who lived in Peru, in South America. The Classic Mayan culture was based in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize – North America and a bit of Central America. This time Puchner is literally on the wrong continent. Once he finally makes his way up to the Mayan homeland, he focuses his narration on Diego de Landa, a Spanish priest who did indeed write an important ethnography of the Mayans of the 1500s. The Classic Mayan Era was over by 950CE, introducing a discrepancy Puchner does not deign to acknowledge. Even aside from that small problem, Puchner describes Landa's writings multiple times as "an account [...] that has remained the primary source of information on Maya culture." This entirely ignores not only the Popul Vuh itself; but the multiple other Mayan codices that survived Spanish colonialism; the many Mayan writings carved on their pyramids, palaces, and stele, and painted on their pottery; their murals of war, sport, and history; the enormous archaeological record of their cities, technology, and diet; and, oh yeah, the fact that Mayan people are still around today. Oh, my bad – Puchner does remember the Mayans still exist. Here's what he has to say about them: "My journey began in the Lacandon jungle. A bus dropped me at the border of the Maya territory, where a beat-up truck picked me up at the side of the road. The village of several dozen huts was located in a clearing in the jungle. Everyone but me was dressed in what looked like long white nightgowns. Men and women both wore their black hair shoulder length (I thought of the shipwrecked sailor who had gone native), and most of them walked around barefoot, sometimes donning rubber boots." That's it. That's literally the only mention of the modern Mayan people. (Puchner's in the area to learn about the Zapatista uprising, to which he devotes the rest of the chapter.) I'm so glad he spent ages detailing that and de Landa's biography instead of devoting any space at all to the contemporary persistence of Mayan beliefs, language, or rituals. When I first read its blurb, I looked forward to the rest of The Written World. Unfortunately it's the closest I've come to hurling a book at the wall in a long, long time. I read this as an ARC via NetGalley.

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wanderingaunt · 4 years ago

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Some People You Meet for a Day, Others You Meet for Life

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -- Maya Angelou

We don’t always know the impact that we make on others. Just by being your authentic self, expressing kindness and love you have the power to transform someone’s life for better.

Recently, my sister received a call from someone she knew when she lived in Cincinnati. He wanted her to know that her enthusiasm and zest for life left an impression on him. In 2009, my sister, her husband and I met in Seattle to attend an epic Coldplay concert at the Gorge Amphitheater. It was the concert of a lifetime. The concert started at dusk as the sun was beginning to set. I’ll never forget Chris Martin walking out onto the stage and the crowd bursting into screaming and applause. They played for a solid 3 hours. The band moved their set all throughout the crowd of 24,000 people. We felt like we were right on stage with him. After my sister returned to Cincinnati, she was sharing the details of this magical event with her coworkers. And 11 years later, she received a phone call from one of the men in attendance letting her know that her sharing of that experience left an impression on his life. He was so drawn into the recreation of the event and how lit up my sister was. To us, this was a memorable evening, but not to anyone who wasn’t there (or so we thought). Her storytelling left an impression. He felt something when she shared.

Some people you meet for a day, others you meet for life.

When I started on my solo travel journey, I became very present to the beautiful, kind souls I would encounter. My motto became: Some people you meet for a day, others you meet for life. Neither is greater than the other. It’s true. I met people from all over the world on a daily basis. I would make instant connections with people over a meal or sitting next to them on a train or on a tour or excursion. I would connect with all of my Airbnb hosts, learn their stories and hold a piece of their kindness in my heart. Some I may never see again, yet I’ll never forget the way they made me feel. I’ll never forget when I was traveling in Morocco, I stayed at the most charming Airbnb with a rooftop overlooking the mountains. When I arrived, the first thing my host asked me was if I had any laundry to wash. I nearly started crying. A simple gesture like offering to wash clothes, was huge to a nomad! He took my entire bag of dirty clothes, washed them, and had them folded and waiting for me. In Peru and Argentina, I had hosts who both went out and purchased blenders after I asked if they had one for use. It was not something they had to do, yet the simple gesture made my stay feel more like home.

And then there was Manuel, a Colombian man who helped me find my Airbnb after I had been wandering the town for over an hour not knowing where it was. I had left my phone behind and had no map or sense of direction. I barely spoke Spanish and there were no street signs. I was in near tears, and Manuel saw me and yelled out to me. To him, he was helping a stranded traveler; to me, it felt like he was an angel sent down from Heaven to guide me.

There were other people I met during my travels that became instant friends and people who are still part of my journey today. And those people have no greater impact than the people that I only met for a day or a moment. All have left lasting impressions on my life.

One gesture of kindness can lead to synchronicity and beautiful alignment.

In 2018, I traveled to Peru for a 10-day meditation retreat. It was my year of unplanned adventures. I only bought one-way tickets and left it up to the Universe to guide me where to go. I knew I wanted to stay in Peru for a bit longer and had no set plans after the retreat. After talking to some people who had traveled in Peru, I decided to head to Colca Canyon, which is one of the largest canyons in the world after the Grand Canyon. I had no ideas of what to do when I got there, I just got on a bus and headed that way. I started looking online to see if there was anything interesting in terms of excursions and saw that there was a zip line that goes across the canyon…sign me up! I went during off-season and ended up being the only person zip lining that day. I got to spend the day with 3 amazing instructors from Argentina and Uruguay. We had so much fun going from course to course. It was exhilarating and the most extreme zip lining I’ve experienced to date. After I completed the course, I was set to head back to my hotel. They invited me to stay and have lunch with them. Before I knew it, I was in their kitchen and they were cooking. And next thing I knew, it was dinner. We ended up spending the entire day together. I was heading to Argentina at some point after Peru. I shared my mission of modeling in photoshoots and Juana mentioned that her sister is a photographer in Buenos Aires. It was all divine synchronicity. I later connected with her sister when I went to Buenos Aires and had an awesome photoshoot with her. At the end of the evening together, Juana and her boyfriend were planning to walk back to town to wait at the bus station for an early morning bus departure. I stayed with them all evening and the three of us walked 2 hours under the dark starlit sky back to town. It was such a memorable experience that all started with an invitation for a meal and ended with a memory imprinted on my heart—not to mention connection for a photographer in Argentina!

Stop for one second. Think about a second that changed your life forever.

This past May, my Dad became extremely ill. Earlier in the year he was having abdominal complications, and was set to have a colonoscopy and then COVID hit. All minor procedures came to a halt. In May his pain became worse and worse. We were concerned and thought that he needed to go to the hospital. My Mom stayed up with him all night as he was bent over the toilet in pain. Early on the morning of Mother’s Day, my Mom finally decided she needed to call an ambulance and get him to the hospital. He was becoming lethargic and was not present to where he was. Two paramedics showed up at the house with a stretcher. The stretcher couldn’t get in the house because there were too many obstacles in the way. They walked in and picked my dad up and carried him out of the house. He was lethargic for nearly 3 days. It was determined that he had Severe Sepsis. If he had shown up any later, he likely would have died. Thanks be to God, my Dad survived. He stayed in the hospital for a week and spent the following 6 to 8 weeks recovering. When he was feeling well enough, he paid a visit to the hospital to find the two paramedics who helped him. To them, they were just doing their job. To my dad, they saved his life. My dad will never forget those men, nor will my family. If they had come any later, this may have been a different story.

And then, there’s my friend Madeline. 9 years ago, her second child, Elliott was born. There was no cause for concern prior to his birth. However, when he came out of the womb, Elliott was found slumped over and blue. He couldn’t breathe. He had to be incubated. There was a doctor there who came in a flash, incubated Elliott and literally saved his life. On Elliott’s 8th birthday, Madeline was reflecting and thought about that doctor. There hasn’t been a week pass by that she hasn’t thought of that day and wondered where the doctor was. She never had the chance to meet him and thank him for saving her baby’s life. He wasn’t from Australia. The only thing she had was a name (Dr. Meswani) and an email address. Madeline emailed Dr. Meswani and shared her gratitude with him for saving her son’s life. He replied back and said that he wished Elliott a good life, and that he was grateful to Madeline for contacting him. It made such a difference to know that what he does makes a difference in this world, and that he’ll continue to do great work. For Madeline and her family, everything was complete. The hospital later put together a video to document Elliott’s story and the connection to the doctor who saved his life.

Watch a video here of Elliott’s story of finding the doctor who saved his life.

Your presence can lead to a beautiful connection when you least expect it.

Last week I received a submission on my website for an inquiry about hosting a Girl’s Night Inward session. A women who lives in Switzerland reached out to me and mentioned that she’s been following my journey and reading my blog for a couple of years. We were in a When to Jump Facebook group together and she remembered hearing about my journey. She saw that I was offering Oracle parties as a way to bring people together in a fun, unique, and meaningful way. Her birthday was coming up and for the first time in years, she would be separated from her friends due to COVID. She wanted to find a way to bring everyone together for a deeper connection. Today, we celebrated Michele’s birthday along with her tribe who were in different parts of the world. It was such a special day and way to bring everyone together virtually. And it all happened because I made an impression on Michele. It came full circle today. I was so humbled and honored to be a part of her special day and be the connector for bringing her tribe together. After the session was over, I stood in gratitude for the beautiful synchronicity of life and for creating a beautiful way to bring people together that deepens their spiritual bond and friendship.

"I can’t thank Robin enough for holding such a safe space for my birthday tribe. It was such a memorable experience that exceeded my expectations. Everyone was extremely touched. It brought our friendship to a whole other level." -- Michele

If someone has made an impact on you, tell them. If you can’t tell them, share their story.

We may never know what our words or actions will mean to another person. We never know how what seems like a small gesture to us, could be a life-changing moment to another person. These stories and all of the stories I hold in my heart are reminders to be kind and hospitable to others. To live life every day with the intent to make a difference. Whether that’s smiling or saying hello to someone in the store, thanking the essential workers and mail carriers for their service, helping a stranger with directions, or offering a cold bottle of water to someone in need…there’s never a shortage of where we can lead life with our hearts. Simply by BEING you—your beautiful, authentic self.

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

If you’re looking for a fun and meaningful way to connect with your tribe, host a Girl’s Night Inward Oracle Party. You will walk away knowing yourself and your tribe on a deeper level.

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