“New York is not the center of the world; we just think we are. It’s the center of reacting to the world.”
An author and editor at a Barnard panel discussion said something like that when I first got back from China. I think she’s right, and that is what makes it fantastic.
With a new (/newly refurbished) Nikon D40 camera and the chance to step into one of the most bizarrely wonderful wedding encounters of my life, here are some shots from the reactionary center a few days before leaving it again. Then, in those first few days in Quito, it was a joy to reach the real center of the world (la mitad del mundo, i.e. the equator). Pictures for now, story to follow . . .
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- Mario’s cousin from Colombia comes for a visit with her dog.
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- Rooftop views in the Upper West
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- One Colombian. One Spaniard. Two friends on the rooftop. They met in English class in New York with a Filipina instructor.
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- Dancing over Mexican food.
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- The Economist in bed with thoughts on China.
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- The newly-wed couple’s home. All those clothes are hand washed.
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- Sleeping nephew
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- La mitad del mundo
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- Roosvelt and the Quito bus station
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- First meal: papas.
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- ubiQUITOus
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- On the fridge
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- In the Old City
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- The horse that took us around and made us — and many on-looking children — happy.
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- Man in the middle
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