I was in El Peñol, Colombia on Easter Sunday. Peñol is a city of rebirth. In 1978 the government flooded the region to create the El Peñol-Guatapé Reservoir. They relocated the roughly 6,000 residents of El Peñol to a “new” town, submerging their original home 30 meters below the water. We climbed 700 steps to the top of the “The Rock” that overlooked the entire reservoir. As a memorial to their old town, the citizens of Peñol erected this statue -- a phoenix rising not from ash, … [Read more...]