Celebrating Día de Muertos Lessened My Fear of Death

“El que niega la muerte, niega la vida.” (He who denies death, denies life.) —Octavio Paz Today and tomorrow during Día de Muertos, Day of the Dead, people in Mexico, the U.S., & parts of Central America celebrate the lives of loved ones who passed on. Tradition holds that the dead would be offended with […]

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the day before snow

A devil’s club graveyard all that remains, bones of a mighty clubbed fortress reduced to small brown skeletons, silent, still scaffolds of what once was. This is how you say madrugada in English– the coldest, darkest, undead hour when spirits roam the earth, right before the first snow:  the rainforest so dry and quiet bones and shapes, negative space, […]

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