This book provides a rare glimpse of life in a small town in southern Chile in the early 1900's as seen through the eyes of a young girl. Carmen Julia shares her stories of perseverence and resourcefulness, representative of how the early settler adapted to make life bearable and meaningful. Julia surmounts many challenges as a woman in the pursuit of a higher education in a rural setting. She shares the excitement of a flowering romance from the perspective of a young woman trying to find her way in a cosmopolitan city where she develops into a successful professional. We are presented a personal and passionate account of how families were torn apart by ideology and violence through the turmoil of a military coup and struggles that Chile underwent in the 1970's. Her clarity of description brings you back to these times with unique glimpses of the emotional aftermath of a time and place in history that is now buried by time. Her professional, family, and spiritual life thereafter unfolds as she explores the world. The book concludes with a beautiful, enlightening, and transcending spiritual experience.
About the Author: Carmen Julia Vasquez was born in 1922 in Santiago, Chile. She was raised in Collipulli which is located in the province of Malleco, Chile. She studied social service at the University of Chile in Concepcion. She worked as a Social Worker, specializing in enabling professional, working families to achieve economic independence, a new achievement for the country at the time. She was married three times and had four children. She spent a lot of her time traveling as well as meditating and teaching Yoga. During the best professional years of her life, she was the chief of human resources at "La Caja de Empleados Particulares" of Chile. However, at the same time Chile underwent a regime change following a coup d'etat, which left a great impact on her leading her to write this book. Years later, after she immigrated to the United States, where her four children now live, she worked as a Spanish tutor at the University of San Antonio in Texas and volunteered as a Social Worker at the University of San Antonio Medical Center. She now continues with her yoga, constantly traveling and leading a life full of energy that can be clearly seen in her book My Path.