Category Archives: Mexico

The Stretch Gate

This stretch gate looks like any of its kind in any landscape where livestock need to be kept in or out and where people do not have the means or inclination to invest in a more substantial barrier. This gate … Continue reading

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Butter v. Chapo

January 16, 2016 The U.S. media is obsessed with the most recent capture of El Chapo, a chubby man in a filthy T-shirt, and an American male movie star who is not a journalist and a Mexican female soap-opera star … Continue reading

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Trust

Our world is built on a shared trust in strangers who we hope are competent. From the earliest prehistoric trade routes to this very day, trust is implicit in the transport and exchange of goods and services. Without trust our … Continue reading

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House, July 23, 2021

This morning while walking the dogs along Arroyo Aduana we came upon this assortment of materials resembling a house. My first thought was that someone had found a perfectly useful but abandoned door and decided it wanted a home of … Continue reading

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Broken glass falls in the forest

Broken glass falls in the forestand from green dreams we wake to song.Dark eyes unseen pierce our nightto watch us stumble out of nakednessinto day. Slowly,we perceive their glances. We shove off rough covers,abrading the skin of our sleep,and from … Continue reading

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