Life in Weeks

In Mexico, death sits at the table. It has a name, gets an altar. Growing up around that doesn't shrink life. It makes you feel how borrowed it is.

“When you take [into] account the dark to tell the light, it’s reality.”

Each dot is one week. 77 years, the US average for a man. The blue ones are gone. My abuela is 103 and still adding to hers.