LatestMy mother and the rain
September afternoons on the porch: my mother shelling beans under the downpour and naming, without hesitation, every plant in the patio.
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Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
Valentina's Life
I write slowly, between notebooks to grade and pots to water.
Photo: giulian.frisoni · CC BY 2.0
Hi, I'm Valentina
- 52 years old
- Primary school teacher
- Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
Welcome to this notebook. Here I write about what happens in my classroom, in the choir, at home and in the patio, which are sometimes the same thing. I am in no hurry, and I hope you are not either.
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The voice in the middle
Eighteen years singing alto in my parish choir, where nobody hums your part and yet everybody needs it.
The rooms upstairs
An Easter week without my sons, two bedrooms I no longer know what to call, and an ironing board that finally found its place.
Brandon's composition
A simple January assignment, a very quiet boy, and the back of a pickup truck heading to the wholesale market at five in the morning.