How Old Is Too Old To Move To Mexico? By Bob Dietz My 91-year-old father, Ray, sold his Florida condo and asked to move to the La Floresta Convalescent Home. It is seven blocks from my home in Ajijic. This is the story of that transition. I flew to Gainesville, Florida to pick up a […]
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Focus on Art By Rob Mohr Deep Fun: The Game of Art At play, Lakeside artist Eduardo Xilonzochitl painted exotic animals on telephone poles along the road to San Juan Cosala, Estela Hidalgo combined found objects to create Ajijic’s new lakeside “Tears for the Forest” sculpture, and Judy Dykstra-Brown using found objects created story boxes
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THE OJO INTERNET MAILBOX (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issue.) THUNDER ON THE RIGHT – AUGUST 2011 Dann Alexander The amount of misinformation in American Media about Canada is startling to say the least. But this is what we get in the age of Nancy Grace. EDITOR’S PAGE – AUGUST 2011 Gloria
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Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “…the people most important to you” Anyone born in the United States in the first half of the 20th century learned a lot about how to live from western cinema heroes like Tom Mix (a movie star who actually served as a pall bearer at the funeral
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Mexican Architecture Houses in Mexico aren’t like houses further north in North America. Coming from the bleak north, the riot of colors, shapes and sizes are sheer eye-candy. Large walls or gates secrete some of the most beautiful gardens, fountains, topiary, and homes. The houses themselves feature miradors, patios,
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La Orquesta Tipica De Chapala By Margaret Van Every Traditional Mexican music is suffering a serious crisis, says Javier Raygoza, founder and director of the Orquesta Típica de Chapala. It is being displaced by “the noisy, horrible band music (narcocorridos y onda grupera) of the drug culture. Raygoza observes that the mariachi band no
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CHILD of the month By Barb Corol Rogelio Lara Huerta Rogelio and his family live in Potrerillos, Jocotopec. Mom, Ana Sofia Huerta Verdia and dad, Reyes Lara Ornelas brought Rogelio to Niños Incapacitados in May of 2011 at which time they were accepted into our program. Ana Sofia told us that in February, Rogelio
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The Lament By Gale Griffth (I Can’t Catch Mosquitoes Anymore) It never was a contest. From the time I was a youngster, living the country life every summer at our cottage, the mosquitoes in my native Canada didn’t stand a chance! I was energetic, swift and accurate and I practiced two methods of attack. My
The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce Charles Baudelaire(1821-1867) Alert readers of this column know that the Classic Poets I’ve featured are near synonymous with their respective countries: Yeats/Ireland; Lord Byron/England; Pushkin/Russia; Goethe/Germany; Dante/Italy; _______/France? Yes, who best represents France? Let’s see if we can put a face on Belle France. You’ve got Victor Hugo,
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The Lakeside Science Fair Program Hank Shiver, Louis Regalado, Todd Stong and Charlie Smith are working with Lakeside high schools to develop science fair projects of high enough quality to participate in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). There are currently Lakeside science fairs but none which competes at the ISEF level. ISEF
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