Tag Archives: Oaxaca

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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Paying Attention

16th
Apr. × ’10
By Sarah
I remember watching Sarah Weese cut cheddar cheese to make grilled cheese sandwiches on a snow day.  Sarah Weese and I always used to hang out on snow days, even though we didn’t normally hang out together.  Our houses were close enough for one of us to make the snow-suited trek (I had pink puffy [...]
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On The Road, Mexican-Style

20th
Mar. × ’10
By Sarah
This past weekend we went to the beach for the wedding of two of our best friends.  The five of us – Natalie, August, a friend of theirs from Vancouver, Jorge and I – drove a massive van full of dogs and alcohol on a long winding road through the mountains to the coast, playing [...]
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Art World

2nd
Mar. × ’10
By Sarah
Mexican artists come to Oaxaca to idle, pontificate and get lavishly drunk.  Admirers gather around them in obsequious eddies, asking hopeful questions to which the artists respond with one of two postures : an arm thrown around the asker’s shoulder in mock commiseration, or a flippant dismissal via shrug.  The artists opine in grand swoops [...]
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