Thursday, December 1, 2011

La Brújula (why is the word for compass so similar to witch?)

It must be said that Joaquin has always had interests in unusual things.  So the fact that one day I walked into his room to see him creating a compass rose out of tinker toys wasn't really a surprise.  But it was very cute nonetheless.  He didn't call it a compass rose, he told me it was for finding directions.  Then he told me about how there was a volcano direction and a mountain direction and the other directions didn't have names.  I'm ashamed to admit I was confused for a couple of minutes, but then I realized he's a true Albuquerquean.  East - mountains, west - volcanos, north and south whatever!

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