This Is A Story Of Hope and we are all characters in it

"It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesman, and hope so few"

Oscar Hammerstien II

This is a borderland, a liminal territory. It is about as far away as you can get from the classic backdrop of the American dream whilst staying within the united states.

Here, in this stretch of desert and arid scrubland that flanks the slow, lazy, last reaches of the Rio Grande, narratives, large and small, national and personal, crawl to forgotten conclusions.