Every 27th of June I have an important thing to do: Phone my good friend Horacio to wish him happy birthday. In the last years it’s difficult to contact him, but not on his birthday; he always answers.
Sometimes we even agree to have lunch together to celebrate in a place he enjoys (Horacio likes good food and wine), but his real birthday celebration is usually by night at some bar. I don’t usually attend that celebration, as I don’t like bars and clubs, and Horacio has always understood that. But the next time I see him he always tells me how it was and why I should have joined them, and for a short lapse he convinces me.
I met Horacio back in 1999. We used to work together at what was the best web design shop of Mexico at the time. We shared the passion of making great websites (He was a designer, I was more on the software side, though), but in almost all other areas we had opposite interests, or at least that was what I believed.
Perhaps being so different was the key to have such a good friendship, as later we embarked together with other 2 good friends and founded our very own web-consulting, digital art and software firm: Artexia.
I learned a lot of stuff from Horacio along those years at Artexia. Discipline at work and in business, web design, house maintenance (we cleaned, painted, and made plumbing and electrical works in our new office), religious and political views, and I know he learned many things from me too. That was because we enjoyed to talk and listen, and we used to had long conversations on several topics about work and life.
After Artexia closed we made some short projects together and still had some occasional meetings to talk. That’s what I’m mostly missing from him: Great conversation, and his point of view.
Horacio passed away two weeks ago, so I decided to write this post in the time I would have used to phone him for his birthday. I miss him so much.
(I don't have much pictures of Horacio, as he was always behind the camera, but I have a lot of beautiful pictures taken by him!)
Hola mi nombre es Gladys fui amiga de Horacio durante 25 años, en abril estuvo en Hermosillo y festejamos nuestro “aniversario”, estuvimos felices con mi familia que para el era la suya tambien, hace dos semanas que murio mi gran AMIGO, y al leer tu pagina recorde a Horacio hablandome de ti, ARTEXIA fue para el como su hijo, su gran proyecto que por momentos no sabia que habia pasado o porque se habia deshecho, GRACIAS por tus palabras y por lo que mencionas de el, efectivamente asi era filosofico, cantador, rockero y romantico, inteligente, humildemente soberbio jajja, obsesivo con la limpieza,…aunque habia cambiado muchooo desde que estaba en la montaña porque no le quedaba de otra jajaj, En fin un hombre que la verdad ame mucho y lo recordare siempre. BENDICIONES