Dispatch from Macheros, Michoacán

I spent a few weeks in Mexico last month and had the privelege to visit the forested mountains on the border between the states of Michoacán and Mexico. It was early December and millions of monarch butterflies had just arrived there from all the eastern half of North America to roost for the winter. They…

A Year in Reading – Part I

The following is the first installment of my attempt to consolidate my journal notes from last year (2017)  into something of a coherent story.  It was a year of solitude, wandering, and a fair amount of reading.  My memories of each phase of the year, each place I found myself in, are strongly associated with,…