Salt, Ink, & Soul

Writing on food, family, and identity

“I write so that our food, our struggles, and our stories are never forgotten, but carried forward as legacy.”

Felix the Fox Collection

Gentle adventures from the Whispering Woods — stories of courage, friendship, and resilience for children, and for the adults who read beside them.

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  • The Body’s Revolt  

    My body rebelled again — not against sickness, but against the world itself. The window stays closed, the sunlight pressing its face against the glass, proof enough that the air out there can’t be trusted. Between failure and mercy, I’m learning how to sit still without surrendering.

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  • Notes for the Road

    From Taos to Santa Fe, the desert teaches its own language — one of endurance, silence, and faith. In this reflection, I travel through Earthship homes, the Loretto Chapel, and the Rio Grande Gorge, searching for what remains when awe becomes understanding.

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  • Early morning on a desert highway — soft light stretching across the asphalt, the Sandias faint in the distance. The edge of a car hood visible in the corner, heat shimmer rising. A sense of solitude, motion, and quiet determination.

    The Road Teaches Us to Listen

    The road begins long before the first mile. It starts with the courage to leave, the hum of the engine, and the quiet discipline of listening. The Road Teaches Us to Listen is a meditation on movement, patience, and the way the world speaks when we finally stop trying to control it.

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  • “An empty bench beneath a cottonwood tree in morning light, symbolizing quiet reflection and small acts of motion.”

    The Invisible Hand and the Road Not Taken

    I bought a vehicle that can go anywhere—yet I’ve gone nowhere. So I began small: a day trip through Albuquerque. From the quiet grace of Tiguex Park to the fiery heart of Chile Addict, I found that maybe growth isn’t about how far we go—but that we go at all.

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  • The Quiet

    After the fire and noise fade, the work that remains is quiet. “The Weight of Quiet” is about learning to sit in the stillness that follows creation — not to fill it, but to listen to what it teaches.

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  • Where the Fire Lives Now

    The sky is quiet, the air sharp with morning. As the city exhales from weeks of color and noise, life in Albuquerque returns to small rituals — warmth, food, and the quiet fire that lives in us all.

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