Homero Salazar

Born on January 4th, 1998 in Laredo, Texas.

I want to say maybe I was like close to five, less than five years old, I think. It was early on a fall, winter morning, I'm assuming. It was super early. I want to say it was either close to eight or seven a.m. And, we were doing like a little playground thing before school started. And I was looking at the sun, kind of going over, like, peeking over the, the horizon. Or the horizon and the trees in the distance. And I could, see how blue the sky was. It was the bluest that I've ever kind of, like, seen anything.

And, that moment, I think all my senses were kind of activated. But I think my visual senses were the ones that were kind of documenting so much for me. That was kind of like this weird moving, like, still image that kind of like, is still, like, instilled in my mind. That I still think about. And I still refer to, because it's just like, I guess my love for that color in particular has always kind of resonated with that memory.

Yeah, like that color, it was one of the prettiest things that I had ever, honestly, ever, ever experienced. Especially at that age. I just kind of, like, stood still. And I just, like, stared at the, at the sky. And I was just, like, looking. I was like, wow. I'm awake now. I think.