Mexican Grace This is a regular feature column inspired stories that manifest “Mexican Grace.” El Ojo is looking for more anecdotes that relate the many encounters, initiated by expats or locals, that exemplify the special forms of mutual giving and receiving that define the Mexican Grace that brought us to this unique paradise–and that keep […]
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Marcos Castellanos By David Ellison It might seem shocking that Catholic priests like Miguel Hidalgo and José María Morelos led a violent revolution. They believed that Jesus called them not only to save souls for a future in Heaven, but to establish justice here on Earth, especially for the long-oppressed Natives. This radical (and
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1812: THE FORGOTTEN WAR THAT NOBODY WON By Lorin Swinehart On January 6, 2021, a pestilential horde of raving, slavering ignoramuses, whipped to a frenzy by the moronic outgoing president and generalissimo wannabe Donald Trump, stormed the US Capitol in Washington, DC, threatening life and limb, causing the deaths of five persons, including one
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Remembering Mister Lebowitz By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez There are moments in everyone’s life that can dramatically change whatever is left of them. One such “moment” happened to me when I was no more than twelve years old. My family was living in El Paso, Texas. My father had recently died, leaving my Mexican mother, younger brother,
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LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 March 2021 “There is a reason the sky gets dark at night. We were not meant to see everything all the time. We were meant to rest and trust even in the darkness. —Morgan Harper Nichols Here we are; almost a year since COVID-19 began its onslaught
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The Universe of Missing Mass John Sacelli when i was a child i went to mass. didn’t like it much. our father which art in heaven . . is there really witch art in heaven? do they cast spells, burn sinners in latin? was afraid, didn’t like it much when i was a young
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Letters to the Editor Re: “Why Some of our Friends and Neighbors Voted Differently” by Michael Hogan (January 2021) Dear Editor: In this very divisive time in the US, where Democrats not only disagree with Republicans and Republicans disagree with Democrats, but when they actively hate each other, it is a breath of fresh
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The Price of Beautiful Lawns: Our Dog Sammy By Suzy Scully It took 35 hours for his death. After ingesting lawn poison on a walk Thursday evening in lower La Floresta, Ajijic, he died Saturday at 7:39 in the morning. Why did our dear 12-year-old dog, a hairless Chinese Crested, officially named “Little Black Sambo,”
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Wounded By Bernie Suttle Moises was where he always wanted to be, in the first row of his church, San Jose, in his village, Nipomo, California. He sat in front of the image of La Señora de Guadalupe, La Morena, his mother. He was wearing the cracked leather jacket he had grabbed from the Goodwill
Happy 10th Anniversary International Institute of Chapala Lily A. Ehlebracht, Ed.M, M.Ed. This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the International Institute in Chapala, Jalisco. In our first years open, my team spent hours negotiating the 2020 mission and vision, debating where we wanted to go and the best ways to get there. There
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