After a very quiet morning in Merida, walking the empty streets looking at the various patinas of paint on the walls, we now hear a few cars and a few more rockets.
Apparently the major event of the holiday season is on Christmas eve. We heard plenty of fireworks, which increased near midnight and continued for [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been looking for a home for awhile now. Nothing I find seems to fit the vague picture in my head. Attempts to flesh out the details falter somehow and the picture remains vague.
Last night I watched the movie “Garden State”, which was supposed to be a great movie. To me it was average or [...]
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 [...]
So often we grab at but do not acknowledge serendipity.
I am in the midst of one such occurrence, holed up in Merida in the Yucatan and mid way into “Henry Miller on Writing”. Serendipity is in action.
Quoting Henry from time to time will only accentuate my experience so know that a real writer’s words can [...]
Houston actually got some snow this year. And early in December, at that!
It didn’t stick all morning, and then it piled up a little bit.
I hear that El Campo (an hour south) got three inches. It was a good day to stay inside. Steve and I worked on gluing some chairs that Amy has, but [...]
It’s now time to enter the door of winter. Fall has always brought about inner turmoil for me. This one is no exception. I really have nothing to complain about, just generally lost as to ‘whats next’. And making a plan for me is like physically pushing a car with a dead battery……up a hill.
Each of [...]