When he looks back on his life 39 years ago, Miguel La Rosa Guerrero does not pinpoint the exact moment when he wanted to become a carpenter, although he does remember that he contemplated wood taking the most dissimilar forms.

Later, when he grew up and reached adolescence, he saw the opportunity to become a carpenter and enrolled in a course in the municipality of Colombia, and after graduating in Holguín, he arrived at the Libertad carpentry shop of the Integral Agroforestry Company of Las Tunas, where he has never left again.

"When I started working here I came from school and it's not the same as being a worker, it's more difficult, because you always have to get close to a more experienced carpenter to learn from him, and when you start from scratch, without practice, it's not the same. However, my dedication was the main thing. I was always next to those with more experience, and little by little I was trained, until today, at 60 years old and with a life in this trade that grabs you."

They say that happiness is made in pieces, it is not complete because it is made up of many details that make life pleasant, and La Rosa Guerrero has an addition for carpentry. He cannot live without feeling the wood, smelling it, caressing it, looking for the precise form, in the sometimes deafening noise of the equipment, and for him, that is an important part of his happiness.

"What I have learned most is to serve the population, my company. I am capable of doing any job, from assembling a door and putting in a latch, to the most difficult piece of furniture. And to be a carpenter one must make an effort and take the knowledge of those who know the most, and do the work with the quality that is required."

Miguel La Rosa Guerrero has in carpentry one of the great treasures of his life, along with his family, his daughter, and his granddaughter, and every day when he looks for the beautiful forms of wood he knows that he is leaving a piece of his soul in each cut, molded, finished piece, because his existence is irremediably filled with that space full of equipment, logs, boards, strips and pieces that seem to welcome him in each stroke.