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.

"Cuando tomas en cuenta la luz para contar la obscuridad, es realidad."

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.