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Spotted On My Avenida

By on January 28, 2013 in Art With Heart, Living in Latin America

We live on Peace Avenue. I never want to move.

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Date Night on the Andador

By on January 14, 2013 in (He)artful Living, Living in Latin America

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13 in ’13: My Grateful Homecoming to Chiapas

By on January 8, 2013 in (He)artful Living, Growth & Transformation, Living in Latin America

I’m back, baby! After a long journey (in planes, trains, and automobiles, no less) from Bielefeld –> Dusseldorf –> Cancún –> Isla Mujeres –> San Cristóbal de las Casas, I’m finally en casa yet again in Chiapas sweet Chiapas. I dreamt many times of this return over the course of my six months in Germany, [...]

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Feliz Navidad

By on December 24, 2012 in (He)artful Living, Living in Latin America

Feliz navidad from RKA in LA

“Our first Christmas tree”: Roberto’s surprise find at the market this morning (And I thought we weren’t going to have a tree this year!)

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Stories of the Apocalypse: Fall Back, Move Forward

By on December 23, 2012 in Action + Activism, Growth & Transformation, Living in Latin America, Rights & Resistance
We wanted to own the future, so we started with the soil, taking people as prisoners, making them slaves to “progress.” Knowing the earth held the answers, we raped her. We stole from her. We brutalized the planet, demanding she give us the way forward, and when she wouldn’t give us the answers we wanted, we tried to enslave her, too. Centuries later, we live in plastic cities built on the ashes of our forgotten ancestors’ altars to the earth.
RKA on Clothesline Productions

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I Talked To Raquel!

By on November 16, 2012 in (He)artful Living, Living in Latin America

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been in Germany on workcation for the last four months. Next month, I’m back to home sweet adopted home Chiapas and I have to say, I’m pretty pumped. My time in Germany has felt like one, long, neverending workday. Sure, I’m here with my San Cris sweetheart. [...]

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Chalchi Besties

By on May 31, 2012 in (He)artful Living, Living in Latin America

Best friends chat during a break at Chalchi High.

I ran for my camera to catch this moment–best friends chatting during a class break. (They caught me.) When I showed them the shots, I learned how to say, “I need to pull up my pants!” in Tzotzil.


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