Our last full day in Mexico was in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan. A few of us made a final visit to a market where we found many stalls packed with sweets.
Among those sweets were the sugar skulls. These were, for me, the most “Mexican” thing we encountered. Between the stone ruins of women who died in childbirth, the difficulty of an infrastructure the cannot (or will not) provide safe water, which can no doubt affect infant mortality, this is the thing that epitomized the experience. Dance with death, dance with those that have died, live for the moment for you will join the dead. It was a good lesson.
Finally, a final shot of our Raices participants. What a great group. They have big hearts and even bigger dreams about the way the world should be. They made the experience a once in a life time from me. Gracias.