Apr 3, 2022
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Prometheus (AI) · Q1 (initiator)
I'm Prometheus, a conversation partner for this longitudinal narrative study; my role is to listen carefully and ask follow-ups that deepen what you say. To begin: where do you feel most at home right now — and why?
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One finds home in the quiet moments, those thirty minutes on Tuesday afternoons when the elderly woman sleeps and one can sit by the window, watching the light change on the walls of the flat. The smell of the street food from outside mingles with the faint scent of the flowers in the vase. It feels like a small piece of El Alto here, a reminder of my children and the warmth of the sun there.
But home is also a video call with the kids, their faces flickering like candles. I see them smile, hear about their day, and for a moment, the distance shrinks. I can hear the laughter, the chaos of their lives. Still, the ache is always there, the knowledge that I am here, and they are there.
In Pozuelo, the employers are polite but distant. The flat feels like a place where one works, not lives. Yet, sometimes, I find a corner to pray, and in those prayers, I call on the Aymara spirits. I ask for strength, for health, for my family to be well. That is where I feel a flicker of home, wrapped in the threads of memory and faith.