Sumay Pacha

   I am a long distance runner, mother of five children, a bilingual poet, living in northwestern Argentina. Sumay Pacha means land of beauty in Runasimi, the language of the Quechua in the province of Jujuy at the northern tip of Argentina bordering Bolivia. I went for nine days in July during the children's winter school break. It is the adobe home my cousin shared with me as a gift of solitude to write.

   I am interested in languages and the visions of the world they embody. I have created this blog to speak with others interested in the forms of language - the language of movement expressed in the purity of running, children's language of seeing the world and experiencing things for the first time, and languages as the Word. I speak English, Spanish, French and Italian. Long ago I studied Ancient Greek in New York City. I read Dante. I study philosophy, pick up our home and greet two cocker spaniels who jump on me every morning with joy.