Becoming Bakitza

An aspiring bakitza attempting to slowly take control of her journey


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  • Salud!

    Good health is something we do regularly express as a wish for other people, that in many languages the root of the word health is used in words for “hello”, “goodbye”, after sneezing, or when raising glasses (filled with alcohol usually, ironically antithetical to health). However, we rarely express this same wish for ourselves when Continue reading

About Me

I got my first nickname when I was 4 years old. It was “bakitza”, which means ‘an old lady’. I’ve always been an old lady on the inside. And as I progress towards being an old lady on the outside too, I want to take control of this journey. To reach the full fledged bakitza level with a peace of mind I always associated with that life stage. I thought it would come on it’s own with age. But now I realize that I have to take control over the mess that my life currently is in order to be a thoroughly satisfied bakitza one day.

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