an excerpt from my ever-so-wonderful soul friend, marie, who is living in the mississippi delta for two years with her boyfriend doing teach for america. i had to share it though i didn't ask. it's too beautiful to sit in my email storehouse.

a delta-driving update:
this afternoon i determined to find a back-roads country drive home. i was a bit scared i'd end up in alabama, not knowing back-roads at all, but i needed it. here's what i found: a yellow airplane in it's own hangar, five chestnut horses grazing a field glowing green, a long and narrow swamp of black trees grey water silver light-shadows. the crowning moment was a red painted-wood shed with a wooden chair and desk just inside the 6-paned window, waiting for a writer.

mis favoritos: marie, christina & i at our RED PARTY