Ecuador
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¡Permisito! ¡Buen Día!
For several weeks I have found myself imploring the listener in different parts of the world to trust an inner source in me with the claim that my visit is not a touristic one. Somehow it may also be self-implored. The immersion I perceive within and about me, does not allow me to wear the…
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autonomous protection
Especially from the medicine of earlier days of human cultures, but also from the knowledge and conviction of many in modern society, nature is intrinsically and extrinsically determined to protect us as its surrounding creatures. Just as naturally it develops ways to protect itself. Sometimes it happens on such brutal levels that we think it…
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la palma bola
or cardboard palm, cardboard plant, cardboard cycad, Jamaican sago, cardboard sago, Mexican cycad…
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Since childhood, and cane before sugar
chewing on these, extracting their juice, is much more about the memory than about my current understanding of joyful eating Memories can be more true to perception than to the actual event referencing the memory. Today I used a memory as a shield of honor. While I can not refer to my father as having…
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A day in a shuar farm, for a chicken, rice, and sugar
When visiting a farm owned by the shuar, they ask that one brings a small contribution, consisting of a whole chicken, rice, and sugar. I understand this as a type of tradition in trade, as a form of gratitude, as a form of support for the farm, and, perhaps, mostly as a form of unity…
Sila Blume 