Olivia Cruz González feels immense pleasure when she watches the sunrise of Buenaventura from her fountain every day, the walk of its people, “it is a privilege,” assures me this woman who recently reached the half century mark of existence.
I see her and I am amazed: petite, agile, with a low demeanor, with an easy way of speaking that makes her easy to communicate with her peers and with every person who asks her about her family, her friends and her work.
[Keeping “El parque fuente” clean and pretty is Olivia’s satisfaction] Keeping “El parque fuente” clean and pretty is Olivia’s satisfaction
A humble woman, she has been working for some time in a job that not everyone wants, but she defends it tooth and nail, “as a sweeper in my little park at the fountain of Buenaventura, I am happy there,” she says and it seems that her height grows.
Olivia is one of the winners because in another workplace she puts her skills to use in cleaning and organizing premises and thus dresses up in the suit of what is in vogue now: multiple employment.
But Olivia is one to fight, and not just now, but from an early age when at 17 she had Idalis, her first child, until she completed seven who have filled her with joy with the arrival of six grandchildren who complete her small “tribe,” she tells me with a smile on her lips.
And she says that almost all of her close descendants came to her birthday, not all of them were photographed, but they came to share with mom, grandmother, with aunt, to talk, to remember that life has its complicated days but that after the storm comes the calm, that which we need so much to overcome in the midst of the storm of time.
