Maryknoll Priest William Wood’s plane crashed in the North Western Ixcan jungle of Guatemala with a volunteer from our organization, Direct International Development (DID), a non-sectarian NGO, on board and my boyfriend Ernest’s passport in November 1976. The evidence of sabotage by the Guatemalan Army was unmistakable and corroborated by campesinos, farmers, on the ground. Proving it as in many situations that I would find myself in over the next two years in Ixcan was elusive.
After discovering boxes of reports, diaries and agricultural data and slides that had been sitting in my parents garage I began to piece together this hidden period of my life.
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I am Lesley L Miles
At 21 I lived for two years in the middle of the Guatemalan jungle. At 29 I became a mother... At 40 I became a registered architect and at 50 I developed an abandoned iconic Granary building with my architect/partner and husband into a thriving mixed-use development and the 25th LEED Gold building in the world. At 59 I became a grandmother and at 60 I started writing.
These are my stories....
