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[Meta] Construyendo una Vida Glocal

La semana pasada leí dos textos que, por contradictorios que parezcan, son igualmente ciertos. El primero es un pequeño "tweet" de seis palabras, escrito por Romina Oliverio, una argentina-canadiense que pronto se encontrará en Perú y luego en los Países Bajos. Ella...

[Objective] Forging a Glocal Life

Last week I read two contradictory texts that each struck me as equally true. The first, in the form of a six-word "tweet" came from Romina Oliverio, an Argentine-Canadian who I believe is currently in Peru. She said: My roots are people, not places. Of course that's...

A Brief Trip to Medellin, Madagascar, Dhaka, and Uruguay

Many thanks to Nicholas Laughlin from Trinidad and Tobago and Joan Razafimaharo from Montreal, Canada for leaving comments on the last batch of featured Rising Voices posts. I hope that more of you will leave comments of encouragement in this week's collection of four...

Lovers and Cities

"San Francisco is like the lover of my dreams," begins my sister, about to stick an oversized, oozing portion of panqueque con dulce de leche into her mouth, "but the relationship, for whatever reason, just doesn't work out ... you know what I mean?" Her...