"The rantings and ravings of a ever-so delightfully mad man..."

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Laborious Lyrics

Posted by on Aug 25, 2011 in Creative Writing | 0 comments

Something stupid I was working on while riding the bus a good while back…One day this will be a killing song…

 

These wounds I don’t want bind
I’d rather let them bleed
So says the twisted broken side of me

With nothing left to give
And nothing left to hide
I break the silence of the night
With my desperate cries

I  writhe in pain each day
My screams not enough
To take the pain away

Tortured by the promise you gave
Dreams become nightmares
That never seem to fade

From walking end over end
And night to night
Wishing I could hold you tight

We say the reasons
And yet we still don’t know why
Why something so perfect
Had to die

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Welcome To My New Site

Posted by on Aug 22, 2011 in Featured, Tales From a Faraway Land | 2 comments

Welcome friends, family, and visitors! I want to say thank you for taking an interest me, my life here in Argentina, and my other assorted musings/creative oddities by visiting this site.

Firstly, I think it would be a good idea if I explained what my motivations are for running this site. For me the experience of moving from my native soil to another country on the opposite side of the Earth has been dramatic in its effect on me. To describe my experience here using clichés such as “eye-opening”, “profound”, and “monumental” are but mere words that the bewildered use to express thoughts and feelings about experiences which are larger than their comprehension or communicative skills allow them to express adequately. I do not pretend to be above so many others in the art of communication, in fact I’m sure I fail to measure up to even the better half. However, I will endeavor to not take the easy way out and settle for providing your average travel writing experience by denying you and myself of a superior experience I know I can one day provide. This site will enable me to hone my skills as much as it will allow for you to hear my thoughts, feel my emotions, and see through my eyes as I present you with tales of my adventures from the far side of the world…

Secondly, you might be interested to know what my plans are for the type of content you will find on this site. Naturally, this new site shall be first and foremost about my experiences and continuing adventures living here in Buenos Aires, Argentina. However, I also wish to use this site to explore other creative outlets simultaneously. As such, I will be creating new sections along the way to showcase other things such as photos, creative writing, among other things.

I hope you enjoy what you are going to find here, and that it moves you more than your average reading material.  I firstly hope that you will come to see for yourself the joy that can be had from taking “the road less traveled” especially when you are doing so for noble reasons. Sadly, as is the case with most things in life, chasing adventure requires often painful sacrifices…for me the greatest of these has been leaving all of those so near and dear to me, and having to find my way in the world without them by my side. I hope these ones will be able to stay with me as I go along this path to wherever it may take me. The parting of friends is painful, but brings forth great rejoicing once reunited. I hope that as our lives have lead us take different paths, that we can be strong, and be reunited in the end at our shared destination.

Thanks again for reading…

 

Sincerely,

Dominick DalSanto

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English Congregation!!!

Posted by on Mar 8, 2011 in Old Blog Posts | 1 comment

So in case you didnt hear this from me, as of this week, we are no longer “el groupo ingles” we are now officially, “la congregacion de la ciudad autonoma de Buenos Aires, inglesa” in other words…the Buenos Aires English Congregation!!!
Needless to say we were all shocked by the announcement, but it was the most pleasant shock ever! This is especially true, considering that we only had a 1 week gap between the CO visit, and our letter coming back.
This is the culmination of the years of hard work of so many brothers and sisters. Some of them, like Daniel, and Amalia, have been here the whole time, some of us have been part of the group for a number of years (Bret, Abby, Gilda, Jessica, and Me [more or less]) and others are recent additions. Along the way we also had a lot from help from those who are no longer with us, having moved on (Rodrigo Diaz, Crystal, Jon) and many others who have all played parts large and small in helping us reach this point.
Now we have a great congregation with an amazing core of brothers and sisters who are going to be here to help out. In addition to our congregation letter, we also recieved happy news that we have a new elder serving in our congregation.
All in all our total make up of our hall is roughly:
6 elders, 8 servants, 16 or so pioneers, and nearly 50 pubs (now I know a bunch of you are going to comment and correct these figures…please do, I will edit them and repost this). So we are off to a great start.
Photo Time:
P.S. Thanks to Gilda for typing out everyone’s names in the photo, and for our Canadian visitors for taking the picture for us all. We miss the few brothers that could not be there for the picture, but we all know we are not complete without you. Also I am in the middle/back right see if you can see my “Beeker-esque” looking head sticking up.

Although there are some important people missing this is almost the whole group.
From left to right and front to back

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2)Suzanne- Fernando-Travis-Danielle-Mariana-Ryan-Gilda
3)Julie-Cyntia-Estefania-Laura-(Girl from Belgium, dont remember her name:s)-Damaris
4)Carolina-Sarah-Aaron-Ben-Carmen-Brian-
5)Pamela-Noelia-Amy-Cyntia-Joana-Lucia-Tamaris
6)Justin-(some people i dont see )Marcelo-Joe(the blond baby)-Nick-Garrett-Daniel
7)Camila-Pablo-Florencia-Paula-Abigail-Lionel-Horacio-
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Back: Meli,Sebas,Ema,Brad and his baby,Dani standing on the left.

Another shot from the other week of us in service. We already sent away about 8 people when this was taken. So add them in there, and you get one awesome group for Saturday service!


 

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