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Jan 1, 2018

End of the Year Updates

Jan 1, 2018

An adopted dog, a new year, a trip to Guatemala. It's been a good year!

Jan 1, 2018

Dec 31, 2016

A New Year

Dec 31, 2016

The dust and heat of the dessert were heavy, oppressive as we sped south in the car. I was immobilized in the passenger seat and Remi, more highly functional in the hot weather, was pretty much solo-piloting our southward road trip. Passing the border in Tijuana, things didn’t cool off much as we headed south down Baja California. The relentless movement of it: what were we running from? Or running to?

Dec 31, 2016

Dec 8, 2016

Mercado 100

Dec 8, 2016

Things are in season, fresh, local. The vendors themselves are almost as colorful as their veggies, young and old. People from all over the place live in the city, and the accents you’ll hear are, like in much of the city, diverse.

Dec 8, 2016

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🌽 ripening corn, spent the day in the field

Dog days at Dartmouth. Alux likes his classes fine. Wishes he was getting more treats for being a good boy.

Just fields, mountains, and sky out here.

I was tempted to make the caption of this photo: just horsin’ around but I resisted that temptation 🙃

From mi Mexico querido.
There’s something weird in returning to a place you’ve lived as a visitor. And there were some weird moments. Moments that felt like the past and present were converging. But it was mostly good. Natural. To see the way some places have changed or the way they have stayed the same. To swim in the same waters and know they’re not really the same at all.

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