I was just making fresh pesto for tonight’s Food For All. Pesto for twenty and it can’t be eaten yet, basil is precious right now. Then I was staring at two extra garlic cloves, peeled and sitting in a bowl. My friend Edwin in Mexico taught me a trick. It’s too early to call a [...] Continue Reading »
acquiring a strong sense of taste
1anxiety (or why some pictures turn out bad)
0[ from a. addair who is listening to Tom Waits (Closing Time) ] when i think i’m okay or that i’d like a distraction thosemolesonmybackusetobesmallerdidtheynot but it scrapes in my stomach and drags at my face ineedtodoasisaidiwoulddoandsendthosephotostojosh and i try to smile at the camera but thedamnfloorsinourhouseletinsuchadraft it [...] Continue Reading »
the good doctor
0Edwin, the good doctor, let me tag along to El Bosque yesterday. He is the doctor of a clinic where he either lives during the week or makes a two hour commute by combi bus (van taxi) first from Tuxtla to Bochil, and Bochil to El Bosque. El Bosque means “the Forest,” a simple title [...] Continue Reading »
wrong as the right video
0Here’s a video Ashley made with some footage so far. The song is off my last EP, I wrote in our VA beach motel during Hurricane Ida. With the times on my side I didn’t know me at the time On my way to my way then Needing somewhere that I’ve been I’m not [...] Continue Reading »
we awoke to howler monkeys
2We just checked into a hostel in San Cristobal, Ashley is taking a hot shower with a clean towel so I’ve lost her for the moment. We rode in from Palenque, after six hours of jungle switchbacks that was only about 150 kilometers. We slept last night in the rainforest in El Panchan, a network [...] Continue Reading »
Mexico at 29
4A couple days ago I turned 29 and I’m taking it very seriously, not because it’s any closer to 30 or some kind of reaction to age, but because I had a hard time with 28. 28 was a struggle, a constant rewording of failure in order to see around it. I was rolling tubes [...] Continue Reading »
all i’m trying to say is i don’t know, but it’s okay
4[ from a. addair who is listening to Bill Evans (The best of Bill Evans Live) ] It is different this year in Mexico. As I was last year, I am glad for warmth in the winter months and grateful for our friends here. I still relish the brightly painted walls; I admire the practical [...] Continue Reading »
“to ask and to walk together”
0[ from addair who is listening to Beck (Odelay) ] A few weeks ago, in San Cristobal de las Casas, we wondered into a shop filled with Zapatista artwork. Levon found an embroidered square that he thought we needed. I thought the work was beautiful but I confess that I cringed at the thought of [...] Continue Reading »
pictures i like: orange, use to be orange, and sun-drenched orange
2[ from addair who is listening to Radiohead (Hail to the Thief) ]
a good human is, i think, an uncertain human
3[ from addair who is listening to Antony and the Johnsons (I am a bird now) ] Being the foreigner, I’ve been withholding my opinions. My particular set of American sensibilities inevitably colors my view but, as much as I can, I’m trying to keep my lenses clear. Or at least on the rosier side [...] Continue Reading »