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¡Hola!

Bienvenidx, me llamo Davíd Mejía-Canales.

I’m among the luckiest people on earth, born and raised in Cuzcatlan and now I get to rest my head, an the rest of me, on sunny Gadigal Country.

This site is named after fellow countryman Salvador Efrain Salazar Arrue (pen name, Salarrue) a celebrated, poet, writer and thinker.

As a child I was drawn to his work because he wrote in the indigenous, slang-filled, Salvadoran Spanish that everyone around me spoke. His writing is so Salvadoran that it’s impenetrable to others. Also, After Salazar just sounds nice.

The Blog: Entre Nosotros

All these things happened among us… (Todo esto paso entre nosotros…) is a quote from a Mayan song and is the first line of the final report of the Truth Commission for El Salvador: From Madness to Hope.

The Commission was tasked with investigating the unmitigated horrors of the 12 year Salvadoran Civil War, horrors that we inflicted on each other.

I was born in the middle of that war, I remember it well, it’s stayed in my bones, skin and hair. It changed my life in deep, profound and complicated ways. This whole project is probably just a way to untangle that complication, maybe?

This blog is an outlet, a (vanity) project, a hobby. I can’t vouch for any of it, but maybe you might.

It doesn’t really have a format, you might find some short stories, some longer stories, a series of photographs, some travel writing, whatever takes my fancy, really. Check back often, there may be something new to see.

Thanks for being here, I appreciate it.