An Examination And Preparation For The Love Feast

I'm a native Californian and I'm living in Indiana. I've lived in many different places in the country and one thing I'm impressed by is how each place can become home. There are so many different places to live, with their own customs, foods, and speeds. And they're all good.

Recently I went to visit my folks in Silver City. That's a small town about a mile in altitude in the mountains of southwest New Mexico. The pace is slow in this very old part of the country. There's copper in the earth and deep roots in the soil. There are adobe houses and immigrant dreams. You are closer to the sky. You can scratch the clouds as they pass by.

And good food. The best. You can get sopapillas in every restaurant, fried puffed up bread, sweet, with h…