Field Notes VI: The original Bluetooth

Interviewing a traditional healer.

I’m back in British Columbia, writing under the evergreens. Each branch is sheathed in soft moss and there are spider webs that glow in the afternoon sun. Some things feel far away, like three weeks ago when I sat in a room with pastel blue walls eating roasted maize. “So you guys ate maize at a shrine?” Precious texted me. I got her message somewhere i…