La Curandera's instructions: Act 2

La Curandera can lessen our pain.

  I wake up just before sunrise everyday, before the birds whose friends sang me to sleep, sing me awake. It's always foggy around this time, which I've grown to enjoy due to its ability to make me feel like I'm hidden from the world, if just for a moment...

   Later in the day I go inside and grab a jar caked with dirt, which was given to me by the local curandera. She tells me "Go to the seaside and lay in the sand. Feel its warmth. Take some sand and put it into the jar. Walk out into the water until your ankles are covered. Feel its bitter chill. Smell the salt in the air. Feel the sting on your face. Hear the water crash on the weathered rocks. Weathered away by the water, similair to you. Stick both feet firmly into the mud and hold the jar under water. Take a little bit of your sin back. Take a little bit of your son back. In doing both of these things, your burden will be lessened."

And so, each day, I drink a little bit more of you.