Tag Archives: Mexico

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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Highways

24th
Nov. × ’09
By Sarah
The highway to San Agustin Etla is, for me, much more an ethereal dream of Mexico than the thing itself.  It’s what drifts through my mind when I lose myself in visions of travel – Latin American highways, skies, trucks full of people, colors, chaotic jumbles [...]
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