18 things Luz Esperanza from Santa Fe, NM actually loves
- The color of the Sangre de Cristo mountains at sunset
- Red clay between my fingers on the wheel
- Georgia O'Keeffe, not the flowers, the bones
- Green chile from Hatch, roasted in September
- The kiln at 2300 degrees, the moment I open it
- Canyon Road galleries on a Tuesday when no one's there
- My abuela's molcajete, worn smooth by fifty years of salsa
- Turquoise, real turquoise, from Cerrillos
- A wabi-sabi bowl with an honest crack
- Sopaipillas with honey at Tomasita's
- The drive from Santa Fe to Taos along the high road
- Agnes Martin's paintings, the grids, the quiet
- Mole from scratch, my mother's recipe, which takes two days
- Adobe walls that are three hundred years old
- Buena Vista Social Club, the album
- The idea that imperfection is where the beauty lives
- Thunderstorms over the mesa in July
- A glaze that does something I didn't expect