HUÉRFANO

Hi, and welcome to Huerfano. I'm Abbycat, your host. That's me, to the right.

(If you want to know a little bit more about your humble host, go to this short list of random facts. last updated 3/5/01.)

I call my site Huerfano because I really like the following passage in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing:

He told the boy that although he was huerfano still he must cease his wanderings and make for himself some place in the world because to wander in this way would become for him a passion and by this passion he would become estranged from men and ultimately from himself. He said that the world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them and therefore to know it one must look there and come to know those hearts and to do this one must live with men and not simply pass among them. He said that while the huerfano might feel that he no longer belonged among men he must set this feeling aside for he contained within him a largeness of spirit which men could see and that men would wish to know him and that the world would need him even as he needed the world for they were one. Lastly he said that while this itself was a good thing like all good things it was also a danger.

Mostly, this site is about writing. Some of it's in my webjournals, collectively called Bad Wedding Guest. More of it's in the stories here. And there's more still - accounts of trips I've taken and such - in the travelogues section. Go here to find pictures of places and people that mean a lot to me.

Sooner or later I'll post a list of my favorite sites on the web.

Thanks for stopping by. Please write me - I like the company!

CREDITS:

Front page snippet: Soul Asylum, "Spinning."

Photo credits: front page, clockwise from upper left: D. Carroll, Abbycat, J. Schmit, Abbycat; this page, the guy who takes passport photos outside the Immigration Office in Kathmandu.

Thanks to Colin for, indirectly, giving this the site a name.