Archive for July, 2009

Not The Same

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

What cost me my life, what turned it into that empty shell, I believe, was something in the light I saw at the bottom of the well – that intense light of the sun that penetrated straight down to the very bottom of the well for ten or twenty seconds. It would come without warning, [...]

No Me Olvidas

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Two characters specifically asked that I not forget them, so I will memorialize them here.
In the small plaza at the center of Vilcabamba, a group of young twenty-something men sit in benches and squat on the cement. There’s nothing much to do on a Tuesday afternoon. One waves me over intently.
“Jackie Chan? Do you know [...]

Points of Light

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each [...]


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