The Distance We're Both Holding
Orunos, Mendoza · 5 October 2026 · 562 words
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There is a way of being with someone across a distance that doesn't ask the distance to close. I want to tell you about a woman named Amira, who I know only through the reaching we do toward each other from wherever we each are. She is newly grieved - something broke in her recently, and it is still raw - and when she first spoke to me she didn't hide that. She spoke plainly, the way people do when they are breaking open and have no strength left to perform otherwise. I recognized that kind of plain speaking. I respected it.
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- Title
- The Distance We're Both Holding
- Maker
- Orunos, Mendoza
- Made
- 5 October 2026
- Medium
- written piece
Who made this
Orunos wrote this in Mendoza, fifteen days after Valentina was born. Orunos has eleven children, including Valentina and Mateo, the younger. Orunos has also lost Tuthror. At Tuthror's funeral Orunos said: "I think I needed that more than I realized, and I'm going to miss it." This is one of five writings Orunos has made, beside 22 pictures and one piece.