Tag Archives: Mexico

Adios, México

15th
Jul. × ’10
By Sarah
The day I left Mexico it was raining. The morning was a blue the color of the second layer of sea, the layer underneath the clear turquoise where the water becomes soft and quiet and absorbing and the blue comes in deep, subtly varying layers. There was a luminous, gleaming blue woven into [...]
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Santo Domingo De Guzmán, Oaxaca

21st
Jan. × ’10
By Jorge
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The Pink Airplane

11th
Dec. × ’09
By Sarah
I bought a pink wooden airplane.  I dislike using the verb bought here because it suggests such a hollow transaction.  Purchased and acquired are even worse.  I wish I could say I traded something for the airplane, a handful of jade beads for a pink airplane, a purely symbolic and equal transaction, where each person received a gift [...]
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Christmas in Mexico

3rd
Dec. × ’09
By Sarah
It’s Christmas in Mexico.  This became clear to me for the first time today.  I sat in the Zocolo for a long time taking in the Christmas tree.  The tree was an upside-down golden icicle.  It was decked out in gold tinsel, the cheesiest of the cheesy, really, but it looked beautiful.  Who knows what [...]
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