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Airplane Mode (1): Back to Myself

By on July 1, 2021

June 30, 2021, 7:26am: The voice of Natalia LaFourcade pulsed through my mind as the puddle-jumper soared into the desert sky. If you are able, please listen to this song while you read: It honors the cadence of this post, Hasta la raíz.

March ’20- May ’21: We’ve all been…


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Taking out the Trash: 2020, A year in review

By on January 1, 2021

2020 was NOT TRASH. I am so tired of hearing, in spite of the trauma, loss and anxiety-riddled year that 2020 was, the negativity infused in the number 2020 as if we are entitled to more life than we have been given even in a pandemic. What’s more, if…


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Living on the Border 3: Soy libre / I am free

By on July 3, 2019

I didn’t even see it coming.

I never know how I am going to feel as I turn left into the parking lot of the Benedictine Monastery with not a cloud in the sky. With any type of social work or service, you can’t predict how you are going…

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Ketchikan, Alaska

All you have to do to sell all of your things and move across the world is to do it.