Laura Miera is a retired art therapist who worked with Homeboy Industries. She is currently writing about Greg Boyle’s works in an ethnographic study as part of her degree work with the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University in California.
“Red, green, or Christmas?” our waiter asks.
Sensing we’re not from Santa Fe, he points to our menu’s illustrations of chilis. He gestures, “mixed.” We order and return to our...