“A person who takes care of newborns at a hospital in Barcelona affirms that the first human gesture is the embrace. When they are born, at the very beginning of their life, babies gesticulate with their arms as if they wanted to catch hold of someone. Other doctors, who treat patients who have lived for a long time, say that old people, at the end of their lives, want to lift up their arms as they die. There! We can beat around the bush all we want, attempt to put it into words all we want, but this is the long and short of it: between two unexplainable beatings of wings, that is where the journey takes place.”

Eduardo Galeano