In Chiapas: The Language of Cloth
Clothing speaks to us. We are drawn to the texture of cloth, the cut, the fit, the drape, the patterns and what this might say to us. Here, in the Chiapas Highlands in the city of San Cristobal de las Casas, and beyond into the surrounding pueblos where Maya women work on the back-strap loom, […]
In Memorium: Patrick Murphy Ruiz, Chiapas Humanist + Guide
Patrick Murphy Ruiz has died. He was a young man, born in 1967, just a tad over age 50. Close in age to my son. A friend told me he had a heart attack celebrating with family on St. Patrick’s Day. Patrick Murphy Ruiz was an extraordinary individual who I met eight years ago in […]