Ido, pero no olvidado: Gone, but not forgotten. Here in California, former Mexican state and forever territory of Aztlàn, the Días de los Muertos are much observed. Spanish speaking folks might be interested in this beautiful and detailed site about the fiesta from the Mexican National Commission for the Development

ocean003 by lifecanvas_com_au. Last year on August 29, just as Hurricane Katrina was making landfall along the Gulf Coast, my old friend Susanne called me from Jackson, Mississippi. She was half in shock, but methodically calling every friend who would have been worrying about her, her partner David, and their

ocean 005: looking up at the sun, by lifecanvas_com_au. Thirteen years ago on September 1, my mother died. She had broken a hip bone in April, and had spent the better part of the next six months in a convalescent hospital ostensibly trying to recuperate from it. My sister and