| The reason the Feature of the Week forum was created was to honor people who have a positive influence on this community.
To qualify the person has to be an active member
and one who contributes to the positive atmosphere here at AdlandPro. Here are the criteria for nominating a member for the Feature of the Week
(also referred to as the Person of the Week, POTW).
This criterion can be seen at the site below:
Criterion
How Do I Get Selected as Person of the Week?
To be chosen as Person of the week you:
• Are highly visible on the community
In the past 350 post were the minimum requirement, we
aren't locked in on that number but a minimum of 300 posts
is mandatory. Posts that are mainly advertising posts will not
be considered.
Please note highly visible with a positive influence in and on
the community means just that. You have to have an active
forum and/or be active in community forums that are not ad
threads.
• Are always seen as respectful, professional, and helpful.
• Must be nominated for the program by another member
of the Community and voted on by other members.
• Must have a real photo of themselves on their profile.
This week we're honoring Luis Miguel Goitizolo.
Luis is involved in the community and is seen everywhere supporting, and posting in many forums.
Luis is a very interesting and active member of our community . Luis is very friendly, supportive, shares his extensive knowledge and artistic talents. Luis is always willing to lend a helping hand.
Congratulations Luis
on your POTW win! 
Dear Peter, Jim, Ana Maria and All Adland Friends,
My name is Luis Miguel Goitizolo. I was born in 1945 in Lima, Peru, the land of the Incas and beautiful landscapes. We were five children in my family, three boys and two girls. My father was the best of men, a lawyer, and my mother a loving, beautiful woman who played the piano brilliantly. Religion was very important in our life and we were a happy family in a happy environment.
However, we also were a family of modest resources, and while in theory we belonged to a comfortable middle-class, I never had a real opportunity to study music, art or literature, which I passionately loved. So although I every year got the best grades at school, I ultimately felt forced to study science instead of art and literature. I believe it was owing to this decision that I never did well in my early years of work. Also, I never married and hardly ever traveled. If I had to make a balance of that phase in my life, I would say the only good thing I did was become an avid reader of every good book that came to my hands. In the long run, I developed a special taste for anything that had to do with Oriental Wisdom and particularly with India.
When I was about forty, after many years of frustration and dissatisfaction as an administrator and later on as a translator, I resolved to learn about and experience things that would prove gratifying in my life, like surfing at the beautiful beaches near my home area and taking courses in watercolor painting. Next I sold my old van and traveled for a while, mostly by train, photographing the wonderful sceneries of my country, a tour which for years to come would inspire me to draw and paint as a hobby, until I run out of money and had to get back to Lima and my usual occupations.
The years that followed were difficult times for me and everyone in my country, as terrorism wreaked havoc in our lives for nearly two decades. The nightmare finally ended, after another lengthy span of time in which I tried about almost everything, including some writing and editing books, I felt I should get started on a new, more rewarding phase in my life. I resolved to work online, which I saw as an opportunity to earn big money and make lots of friends. Then, for a couple of years, in spite of a certain frustration and dissatisfaction born from the meager results obtained, I nevertheless was feeling at ease both with the world and myself, as I really like the work. At the same time, I felt it was not enough. I wanted more from life, a real reason to live. And I remembered my studies in Oriental disciplines and my attempts at writing and editing.
About twelve years earlier, a precious Hindu holy scripture, the Third Canto of Bhagavata Purana, had come to my hands as if by accident, and I was marveled to learn that in very remote times the Hindus were familiar with such advanced scientific concepts as the expansion of the universe and the space–time relativity, both of them notions which modern science would only become aware of from the Twentieth Century onwards. This, and the huge lengths of time involved in relation to cosmic cycles and ages, led me to start a study in the doctrine of cosmic cycles, which I published soon afterwards, in about 1998, in Spanish; and more than ten years after, as I resolved to look for a means of filling the void that I was feeling in my life, it induced me to translate the book into English, which is what has taken most of my time during the present year.
Currently I live with my lovely Goddaughter and her mother, who used to be our housekeeper in years past. We have three charming dogs, Paco, Moses and Dune, and we love to care for them and for every little being that we may come across in the streets.
Among my many interests, I am particularly fond of Religion, Eastern Cults, and Metaphysics. I love listening to music, reading, writing, painting, networking, and taking our dogs for a walk along the seafront lanes and parks in Miraflores, the beautiful district of Lima where we live.
Please visit my website at http://www.miguelgoitizolo.ws, where you will become familiar with what I believe to be the most important activity that I have ever devoted myself to. Or come to http://www.miguelgoitizolo.com, where I will show you the good companies and programs that I more or less actively have been promoting of late.
I would like to thank all my very good Adland friends who have made me feel like home during the years spent in this wonderful community. They are too many to remember everyone, but I will specially mention Pauline Raina, Jenny S.J., Jill Bachman, Rose Enderud, Jodi Siddon, Sam Sunday, Peter Fogel, Ana Maria Padurean (who recently invited me to participate as a PTOW nominee), and Branka Babic (who finally convinced me).
Thank you,
Luis Miguel Goitizolo
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It is time to congratulate Luis on his POTW win. Please invite
Luis to join your list of friends if she isn't already on it.
Luis Miguel Goitizolo,
Ana Maria, Jim and I are glad to be honoring
you in this week's POTW forum.
You've been a great asset to our wonderful
community.
Enjoy your week as our
POTW and King of AdlandPro!
Thank you Adland Friends for supporting
the POTW Forum
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