la guerra sigue
I waited, strong in faith, and the sun arrived. No more of this hiding as if in a bunker. No more checking weather.com to see what it's like outside.
Sobering. Someone in one of the Guatemala books I read—by now there have been so many that I can no longer attribute anything to a specific source—said that the most enduring scar from the 36-year civil war is that now violence is seen as the only solution to any problem; after a lifetime of combat, it's the only language that anyone knows how to speak.
