A Year ago today, Pepino, was the last day of my life. 
It ended the next day.
 I wouldn't get it back until mid-March.

I'm not that same person anymore, I know. But I was so scared.
5 days from now I was almost lost to those gray hours between night and day.
Those nothing hours of mist and cold.
They would've found my body in a hospital bed clutching my ( Read more... )

Meleena brought down a book to Chiapas as a gift to Lenin.
It's a very old weathered down book (always the best) that she found in Tata Joe's bookshelf.
Haha, so I'm imagining with "Nana's Boutique" there is also a "Tata's Library"

It is entirely a book of poems.
It is very beautiful and will also double as a learning tool for both Lenin (she hopes) ( Read more... )

        A little over 12 hours ago I was terrified.
I have never felt more fear in my life than I absolutely felt then, I was sure of it.
I've never felt such tremors, I thought for sure I would vomit my insides out. I wanted to. Please, please, please get this pressure out of me.
Was it the drinks?
Was it the high?
Was it the fear?
I could not hear ( Read more... )

      An excerpt from "A Storm and a Prophecy- Chiapas: The Southeast in Two Winds"
Section Four, Chapter Six of Our Word is Our Weapon by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.

And this wind from below, that of rebellion and dignity, is not just an answer to the wind from above. It is not just an angry response. Rather, it carries with it not ( Read more... )

This is home?
It just feels weird to be back 'home'. But it's so apparent I'm back, I'm here. It screams it.
In this country.

This country that only seems to specialize in the careful act of making somebody different feel like they absolutely do not belong here.

That they are not wanted and are not liked.

And in America of course the differents are ( Read more... )

Only on Live Journal****, 
however,
Even with this I still prefer not to disclose names.
Besides It will all soon become apparent enough anyway.

It still all seems so much like a dream what happened between us!
And even now, having come back from Chiapas.
I was never able to see you, and even ponder why it was so important to me to return and see you. ( Read more... )

To Leave:

Thursday December 20, 2007

Aviacsa #481

Ciudad Juarez Intl Abraham Gonzalez (CJS)
to Monterrey Gen Mariano Escobedo (MTY)

Departure (CJS): 12/20/07, 4:35PM
Arrival (MTY): 12/20/07, 7:15PM

Monterrey Gen Mariano Escobedo (MTY)
to Villahermosa Capitan Carlos Perez (VSA)

Departure (MTY): 12/20/07, 8:10PM
Arrival (VSA): 12/20/07, 10:10PM

To Return:

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Well.
That really isn't the question because I've already gone through this with Meleena and we already agreed on the outcome.

that yes. I am going to blog.

I am going to write in this virtual journal on Myspace everything that I have been writing previously beforehand in my little pink journal throughout my adventures in the mountains of the Mexican ( Read more... )

Man, okay so i totally bought myself some time to turn in my huge ass essay for Mr. Johnsen's american history class. The essay was due friday-i didn't have it, so i didn't go, thus buying me time to work on it on the weekend ( Read more... )

Bleh. the Christmas season was pretty...odd this year. It just didn't feel like Christmas ( Read more... )