Posts Tagged ‘Misty Lindsey’
Juárez: Just One Word
Juárez. Just one word – disdained by the world, restricted by the fear that shackles her. A terror. Abandoned, scorned, forgotten. Juárez. Just one word – my heart leaps. Excitement fills the air. Anticipation. My city, my home. LOVE. Beauty. Life. Friends. Hope and anticipation of what is to come. I recently had a conversation [...]
November 1st, 2010 by Misty Lindsey
Weilding hope for Juárez
Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
May 25th, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Juarez. A day in the life…
The darkness of our world will try to smother the light, so we have to surround ourselves with people who make us shine brighter. -Irresistible Revolution Saturday morning. We woke up a little frazzled from the week of relentless office-work we had been doing, stuffed into our dark little office that could have as easily been in any [...]
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 [...]
November 6th, 2008 by mmlindsey
The Bull & The Wolf: Los Borrachos
I have been making friends with El Toro and El Lobo. They are the neighborhood inebriated revelers. Nearly every Saturday morning astoundingly early we find them in the street, already halfway through a plastic bottle of Mescal, tottering around with brooms, sweeping the streets and stopping to howl out greetings to everyone that passes by. “Hey, Bro!”, [...]
January 9th, 2011 by Misty Lindsey