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Coffee
As a teen he had had his own television show as a real-life psychic who helped police solve crimes. He sold his services to the public at the end of each episode, so he had the phone numbers and money … Continue reading
Couscous
Curious drab, colored birds dropped in from nowhere and stayed close to me, like the children on the street in Mexico, with the persistent hope that I would give them any morsel, even by accident. Here, in San Francisco, there … Continue reading
Chorizo Sandwich
I’m sitting, and I sit upon a chair and my feet rest on maybe a foot of concrete. There is a speed bump that transmits the weight of each car through the concrete, shaking it, up through my feet. It … Continue reading
How to be a girl if you’re a boy
You do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, maybe. Bless you, child, when you set out to thread a needle don’t hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and … Continue reading
The Definition of Writing
Painted Mixtec and Aztec manuscripts, like all writing systems, were permanent and readable, which meant that they were used to establish ideas, document facts, and present accountability. Europeans recognized the painted records’s function to the extent that those drafted for … Continue reading
La realidad – Reality
Es interesante que la luz es una intersección de partículas y ondas. En algunas situaciones la luz se comporta como el agua y en otras situaciones, como frijolitos. Esto significa que el mundo que observamos no es estático como un … Continue reading
Past = Present
Right now, somewhere in the cosmos, aliens are watching human history unfold through a telescope. They see the indigenous people of America carrying on their daily business, and, after a little fine-tuning of the telescope, the man known as Jesus … Continue reading
Cultural responsibility
I was on the BART reading Guns, Germs, and Steel when it came to me: It’s not native peoples’ faults that they couldn’t develop the tools they needed to defend themselves from the Europeans. Power struggles are visible in human … Continue reading
Tlahtolli unleashed
Nunca había pensado en la influencia que tiene este blog sobre mi vida. Me dí cuenta de que los varios cuadernos que tengo son más que nada una manifestación física del contenido de éste blog llamado Tlahtolli. Me dí cuenta … Continue reading
Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
Every morning about seven o’clockThere were twenty tarriers drilling at the rockThe boss comes along and he says, “Keep stillAnd bear down heavy on the cast iron drill.” ChorusAnd drill, ye tarriers, drillDrill, ye tarriers, drillFor it’s work all day … Continue reading