I do not believe in coincidences or serendipity. Especially when it comes to people. I sense you meet those whom you are destined to meet. The problem is that often we are unaware of these individuals when they enter your life, and so meetings or insights that were meant to be somehow slip away. The key is to always be mindful or "awake", as Anthony De Mello likes to say... and always look for the light in a person, that spark of divinity that we all have. That way, you are drawn to people and thus the possibilities that they carry with them. Treat everyone as if they were the last person you would ever meet, and see what you create. 

The people in the following series of photographs all have something to contribute to Honduras, and they do it in a manner that is selfless and sometimes seemingly without end. The have come together through projecthonduras.com and the Conference on Honduras. They and thousands of others are the "human capital" of which I write. We call upon each other when needed, and each time that happens we discover new reasons for why we are being slowly, deliberately woven together.

I am grateful to my wife Barbara, Peter Hughes, Carin Steen, Jerry Thompson, and Ben Udy for contributing photographs to this photo retrospective. I hope they do not mind that I've taken some artistic liberty with them. The photos were originally in color, but I opted for various shades of sepia instead.

Use the three buttons on each page of this retrospective to navigate through the dozens of pictures. On this page (top, left column), the first button takes you to the opening page of the projecthonduras.com site, the second button to the first photo, and the third button to the last photo. The buttons are slightly different on the other pages, but you'll quickly get the hang of it.

Marco Cáceres

December 23, 2005