Maria Elena invited me to dinner with her family one afternoon when I was helping the men cut down a tree in the village. She was wearing a dress instead of the traditional huipil and I noticed that someone had mended the shoulder with heavy black thread.

Welcome to brownstudy. This blog is the younger sibling of my original redshift blog. Brownstudy will be a place for sketches, doodles and drawings.
I should advise readers that any opinions you find, or think you find, do not represent official positions of Peace Corps, the United States government, or any other official body that might be risking reputation on my scribbles.