Where does one feel sadness? It’s not in the head. Not the heart really either. For me it sits at the bottom of my ribcage, quivering, where if it decided to make a run for…
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tackle & tangle
“No more satisfying work than work with no purpose.” – Rumi To build a sandcastle right in the face of an oncoming tide. To climb a tree that I must eventually come down. To write…
safe passage continued
(I’ve got thoughts to compose and post, but we’re fast on the move as the semester comes to close. The following comes from a newsletter update that Hanley, the director of Camino Seguro, asked me…
a day in the life
Sometime in the last few months I picked up a new personal meal-prompted ritual. And it only slightly (and admittedly irrationally) bothers me that onlookers might presume I’m Christian (which I, although a fan of…
on the altar of humility
October 13th, 2005 Xela, Guatemala Tropical Storm Stan Evacuee Camp “psssst!” I look around the room, but there is only an old woman stooped over a broom sweeping the floor. People have been hissing at…
silence squeaks
bean and corn field outside of Nebaj Like a child who has witnessed a tragedy beyond their vocabulary of comprehension, my mouth has been closed in silent surrender of the search for fitting words that…
white and red aliens
I close my eyes and step out of my house in Oregon. I shuffle down the driveway to the mailbox to pick up the morning paper and right before I cross the street a black…
all saints
The bus ungracefully bumbles its way along a long unpaved road. Its full load of passengers jiggles and jostle more to the tune of the bumps on the gravel path than that of the reggaeton…
phew.
We´re all wipin´ the sweat from our brows over here… > Ex-Dictator Rios Montt Loses in Guatemala Vote
Tonight in Guatemala
….after 80% of the country put in its vote, my host family huddles around the television and awaits the result… My fingers and mind cross at the idea that there actually exists a chance that…