Life in Weeks
In Mexico, death sits at the table. It has a name, gets an altar. Growing up around that doesn't shrink life. It makes you feel how borrowed it is.
“When you take [into] account the dark to tell the light, it’s reality.”
Each dot is one week. 77 years, the US average for a man. The blue ones are gone. My abuela is 103 and still adding to hers.
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Abuela, 103 ↑