“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”Lao TzuSimplicityIn everyday life, simplicity can be understood as the state of being uncomplicated or straightforward. It can also be used to describe a minimalist lifestyle, free of unnecessary possessions and worries.

“The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.”Oscar NiemeyerCathedralThe Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral, more commonly known as Metropolitan Cathedral of Barquisimeto, or simply Cathedral of Barquisimeto, is a building with a modernist architectural style that resembles, from the heights, an inverted flower with four petals.

“Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”Zig ZiglarRepetitionRepetitive is something that is repeated over and over again, or that is full of repetitions. It can be used to refer to an action, a sound, a pattern or even a type of text or language that can become tedious or boring due to a lack of variety.

“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”Henry David ThoreauInsectsWith around one million known species and between 6 and 30 million species not yet described, insects are not only the most diverse group of animals on the planet, but also the most numerous, estimated to represent more than 90% of the life forms that inhabit the Earth.

"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet."Roger MillerReflection Hunters Contest - Round 221Even though it has been raining or drizzling quite frequently since the end of April, today has been a quite humid day, at one point I even thought that the universal deluge would unleash the city with torrential rains, which fortunately did not happen.

“A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.”Mario BottaArchdiocesan MuseumThe Divina Pastora Archdiocesan Museum, located in the small and nearby town of Santa Rosa, is an institution dedicated to the preservation, restoration and exhibition of religious articles, mainly those related to the Divine Shepherdess (Divina Pastora), a Marian devotion of Andalusian origin, which has enjoyed a great devotion in the region since its arrival in the middle of the 18th century.