
Per Mortem Ad Astra - Entry #9
Many ancient cultures believe that when the body dies the soul rises to the heavens and joins the stars. Late on the night of November 2nd, Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, I wandered through the little cemetery of Terlingua, TX. Terlingua is a ghost town, barely an hour from the Mexico border formed in the late 1800s when elemental quicksilver was discovered under the red, dusty rocks of the desert valley. The miners and their families that occupied Terlingua were larg