Mission District – Marcos M. Villatoro

Find Your Homeland

The Spanish word terruño has captured my imagination as of late. It means “homeland,” which, in both languages, has a loving tone to it: one’s

I’m not much of a Louise Gluck lover, I find her poetry a bit distant, cold; but I sure like that one line she wrote,

The above is a shot of the house we lived in when I was a toddler, Mission District, San Francisco. That’s my daughter Emily. I’m

Sometimes I visit the Mission District of San Francisco, where I was born. It’s not the same, and it’s getting worse. Google moved into the