San Miguel Allende

Well first of all I lost my camera so I won't be putting pictures up until I can use my friends camera. Sorry for those of you who are only into the picture brows. Second I have had chronic strep throat for about a week, just so you can all feel bad for me. Third, stop feeling bad for me because this past week has been great. My dad and I met up in Mexico city, spent the night in a bus station, to a 5 hour bus here and have been having a blast the whole time. I am really learning what it is like to discover your parent has a human being before they were your parent. We have met all his old friends, teachers, etc. and I can see why living here was such a momentus experience for him. I have been touched by those same people though I have only known them for a week. Tomorrow We are both taking a bus to the airport where I will fly to cancun (2 hours) then bus to a border town(6 hours) catch another bus to belize city (a few more hours) then take a chicken bus to Independence then a water taxi to the small town my friends are in...... i think that is like two days of traveling. Oh well such is the nature of this experience. After my camera was stolen I decided it happend for a reason and am going to do without a camera, but promise to borrow friends to post pictures when I can. Here is something that I started working on, in progress but an idea of my work:

"Upon leaving Mexico April 2, 2010"

I take Frida as my mother

-braid her into my hair

the Spainards as a bastard father

the arch nosed Aztecas as abuelo

the full skirted dark eyed Myans as abuela

bougie, high heel clacking

mujeres de La Ciudad de Mexico, as tias

sombrero wearing hombres,

with hard callused hands, as tios.

I take in these ancestors

till the breath ferments in my blood

I take them in, with their children

their sun bleached ruins

their murials woven of heros and villans

their savory taco stands

-the certain way the greese falls into the web of my fingers

-the relief as watermelon agua fresca chills me from the belly button up

and I wrap them up into a page

I present them to you

here, in the shape of a flower

may you wear in above your ear

so that the colors of these souls

are fragrent for all.

Breathe deeply