Maria del Mar Fernandez Tasama

Estar fuera de casa, y sentirse, sin embargo, en casa en todas partes; ver el mundo, ser el centro del mun do y permanecer oculto al mundo, tales son algunos de los menores placeres de esos espíritus indepen -dientes, apasionados, imparciales, que la lengua sólo puede definir torpemente.

cities give us maps to examine our lives

You walk into the folds of the city with a desire to roam, building a repository of memories that become cartographers over time.

His curiosity towards strangers he meets is guided by twin questions that have followed him to every city: “What is it like to be born here, I wondered, and what it is like to die here?

but writing that has an unmistakable sense of texture of a place.

Nada se parece más a lo que se lla -ma inspiración que la alegría con que el niño absorbe la forma y el color.

Communion assumes a different shape from community when you are unmoored from the land that birthed and assembled you, when you don’t believe in the nation as a constellation of imagined communities, when the restless wanderer in you knows that home is always elsewhere.