Toucans landed on the field behind your house improbable, the things we think are beautiful Why the hummingbird, iridescent and almost impossible to track as it zooms and flits and chitters through the tree and not the giant black bus of the bee whose heft is long and wide, seeming to defy gravity, land on […]
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Toucans
Posted in Birds, Guanajuato, Hummingbirds, Memory, México, Music/Song on September 18, 2020 | 2 Comments »
Being loved back / Un amor recíproco
Posted in Cerros, Guanajuato, Leaving, Love, México, tagged Cerros, Guanajuato, love on August 23, 2020 | 2 Comments »
The land loves us back. She loves us with beans and tomatoes, with roasting ears and blackberries and birdsongs. -Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants It is not enough to know I loved the land the cerros – too big to be hills, too small to […]
Shelter, Alone
Posted in COVID-19, Encerrado, Guanajuato, Isolation/Belonging, Love, Quédate-en-Casa, Yoga on May 13, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
The young couple just a few weeks into their love sheltered together the aged couple side by side so long they rarely speak out loud remained in, quietly children stayed home from school university students returned to their parents’ people sheltered with their dog, their cat, their bird their recipes, their baking supplies their Facebook […]
La oscuridad de la madrugada
Posted in Dawn, Emotions/Inner World, Isolation/Belonging, Solitude, The Soul on May 10, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
La oscuridad de la madrugada exige a la tristeza una dosis exactamente igual que la de ayer y de cada mañana antes desde que dimos un nombre a las horas interminables y supimos que somos las personas invisibles nadie puede distinguir la cara del viento el cabello del cielo nocturnal el negro en el ojo […]