Gotta love those lyrics…
Swingset Chain by Loquat
There’s a playground that we used to run on
The penny-drop that broke her arm
The monkey bars that you fell from
The swingset chain that stuck with my tongue
It’s thirty below and we’re far gone
If you plant yourself here I wouldn’t miss you for long
But then comes the day when you [...]
Sun comes out and so do we. Joy and I ventured out to visit ‘cenotes’.
Off, by bus, to Cuzamá. Much of the road is one lane, a little tense when trucks or other buses come our way. Once in town and puttering along in a motor powered bike built for three, we are told there [...]
We had a good day back out at Uxmal, a ruin full of stone carvings. Many things I had missed before made it well worth the trouble plus Joy had not been there.
Many structures there, seemed to be living spaces. Some rooms I would stick my camera in (dark) and shoot. I could hear the [...]
Text by: Anabell Castañeda
Article found at Yucatan Today Magazine, ‘Editorial’ Dec. 15/Jan 14 2010 – www.yucatantoday.com – a wonderful resource for information on Merida and the Yucatan of Mexico.
Today’s Mayas look ahead to December 2012 as a critical point in the history of humanity; and they see time as a variable which has a great [...]
Joy and I ventured off to Mayapan, a Mayan ruins site southeast of Merida, hoping to find artwork. We had been told this place was full of it. Thirty minute hike across town, through markets and many people, toward a bus that we read would take us there, we realized our adventure was in the [...]
After spending three days on the northwest side of the historical center, zocalo, I found the English Library and from a folder with local rentals found Yucatan Vista Inn, run by Alan, the Canadian.He is very interesting to spend time with and runs a great place here. Decided to spend a little more to be here.
Met [...]
The Vision Serpent, link between the spiritual and physical, named by the Mayans, ‘Kukulkan’ is my first link into true insight of Mayan culture.
This batik by local Mayan artist Abraham Cuamal Alli portrays the serpent . There is a theory I am reading about that states Mayan geometry was found in patterns on back of [...]