I was talking to my buddy Mike Hawthorne the other day about the weird portal realities we came up in, nerdy kids, no dad, not a whole lot of money, raised mostly outside by whatever knuckleheaded business we approached or were approached by.
Without Abuela at its heart, the home that had grown out of her interests seemed almost to have fallen over on its back like some ancient fossil in the sand, all of these tiny bits of her sitting unbroken but without purpose like the shells of light bulbs that no longer fit.