Posts Tagged ‘Ciudad Juárez’
Lost in the snow in Juarez
When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez And it’s Eastertime too And your gravity fails And negativity don’t pull you through Dylan It wasn’t raining, and Easter is 2 months away, but Bob’s lines melodiously swirled in my head as I tried to capture the snow falling over our city. It was cold [...]
February 11th, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Fatally Comfortable
All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don’t tiptoe. -Irresistible Revolution In my research to find statistics for what is really going on here in this bloody city, the most dangerous city in Mexico which [...]
February 7th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Greening the Ghetto: The Desert in Color
The concrete-gray washes over me like a tidal wave of rubble, with 100 million plastic bags and a few hundred thousand worn out tires embedded in its curling face. Even with the dusty trashy mess, our neighborhood has me enamored. Everyone keeps warning us about the sinister dust storms that roll across the desert in March and April, [...]
January 29th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Seven Months in the Desert
The history of Mexico is the history of a man seeking his parentage, his origins. He has been influenced at one time or another by France, Spain, the United States and the militant indigenists of his own country, and he crosses history like a jade comet, now and then giving off flashes of lightning. What [...]
January 23rd, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Uncomfortable Beauty
When someone strips a man of his clothes, we call him a thief. And one who might clothe the naked and does not – should not he be given the same name? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat in your wardrobe belongs to the naked; the shoes you let rot [...]
January 20th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
The Desert Weight
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human– looks out of the heart burning with purity– for [...]
December 7th, 2008 by mmlindsey
In the Mud
If your religion is one in which you are not required to change the way you live your life, it is one God rejects. ~Desmund Tutu We left Ciudad Juarez a few weeks ago and I was feeling a bit thrashed, like I’d been trying to run uphill against the wind. Questions like, “Really, just what [...]
September 6th, 2008 by mmlindsey
Circus is in Town
You hand in your ticket And you go watch the geek Who immediately walks up to you When he hears you speak And says, “How does it feel To be such a freak?” And you say, “Impossible” As he hands you a bone Because something is happening here But you don’t know what it is [...]
February 13th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey