Author Archives: Melissa
One week in
It’s difficult to write about a pilgrimage. Every day you get up and walk. That’s it. Nothing happens, and yet everything happens. The world slows down. You see the flowers and the bees. You hear the constant birdsong that … Continue reading
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The Adventures Begin
Greetings from Burgos, a lovely city on the meseta, Spain’s high northern plain. Our adventures began before we even left home. By ‘we’ I mean me and Janice, my old college roommate who agreed to join me for the first … Continue reading
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Today’s walk
Was another Manresa to Sunset excursion, and back again. Each walk seems to have a theme, and today it was jellyfish. This is one of the larger ones I encountered, shown with the nifty rock I found. Does it count … Continue reading
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Testing, testing….
Have I mentioned that I’m returning to Spain next month? I’ll be there for almost six weeks, walking on the Camino Frances for some of that time (the same route I walked in 2006), and spending the other part of … Continue reading
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Headshot/Mugshot
My “Headshot/Mugshot” series is an exercise in presentation and perception. There have been three sources of inspiration leading to this series. The first, social and mainstream media have focused lately on how young men of color are portrayed in the … Continue reading
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Like Buttah
My birthday was in June, and my present from Sarah-Hope was a new set of four Pfeil carving tools. I’ve been saving them until I started carving my giant 3-foot-square linoleum block for the Roadworks Printmaking Festival at the San … Continue reading
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