This video is a creation I made on my last solo trip from Tacoma, WA to Los Angles, CA where I met my mom and then continued on to Santa Fe to see my sister. I stayed close to the ocean partly because of fires inland but mostly because the sea was something I needed at the time. Artemisa, my car, and I wiggled along the coast having mate breaks in the company of redwoods, listening to Bomba Estereo and clambering seastacks along the Oregon Coast. It was a beautiful, centering time I will never cease to learn from.

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I wake every morning

wiggling, itching,

wondering

how they do it--

give way to her rushing commands

without a single lament

for all she asks we leave behind.

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