August 22, 2006

We remarked afterwards that we had never seen so jovial a couple stand to take their wedding vows—not that it wasn’t also solemn, but they repeated the old promises with such simple and artless happiness. One could have believed that those words were being spoken for the first time.

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.