ONLY FIVE SECONDS By Jose Amador Translation by Elizabeth Sellars (Ed. Note: Over the next few issues, we shall be running excerpts from Jose Amador’s excellent collection of short stories entitled Mexican Memories. The book sells for 90 pesos and can be found at most book stores at Lakeside.) I remember Tarcisio perfectly. We […]
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MIRACLES IN MEXICO By Robert Kelly At Pasos Milagrosos, we really do believe in miracles! Emilio Ramirez, aged four, arrived at Elena and Pablo Cooper’s “Pasos Milagrosos” (“Miraculous Steps”) Equine Therapy Program, in March, 2007. Emilio has Asperger Syndrome, a condition falling in the autism spectrum (ASD). Locked into himself, frustrated and fearful of
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In Search Of Juan Rulfo By Harriet Hart One of Mexico’s most famous authors, the man who invented magic realism and inspired such literary luminaries as Gabriel Garcia Marquez is from Jalisco. Juan Rulfo was born in Sayula in 1917 and set his only novel, Pedro Paramo, in the village of San Gabriel where
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Growing Up Again We all grew up to be how we are for a reason. Some of the reasons are hard-wired biologically. Some of the reasons have to do with environmental and parental influences. The nature vs nurture question has been argued forever, but today
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Hearts at Work —A Column by Jim Tipton “Still alive at the end of the journey.” Back in the mid-sixties I bought, from Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Light’s Bookstore in San Francisco, a book by Japan’s most famous poet, Matsuo Basho, titled The Narrow Road to the Far North. Basho begins his travel diary
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Planting for the Future By Judy Baehr Discovery Days at the Farm Today in the U.S. and elsewhere, schools have edible gardens where kids learn to plant, tend and harvest food. But here in Mexico, kids are rarely that lucky, even in rural areas. That’s why ACÁ has developed a series of programs teaching
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Interview with Dilia de la Altagracia author of “The End of Diets – Healing Emotional Hunger” What do you mean by ‘emotional hunger’? Emotional hunger is using food to satisfy needs that are not being addressed in healthy ways. The food fix is exhilarating,
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Feathered Friends By John Keeling Great-tailed Grackle The Great-tailed Grackle is one of the more common birds along the shores of our lake, particularly near the pier in Ajijic and in the trees along the main street in Chapala. They are noisy. The call is a raucous, squeaky whistle which is not exactly pleasant.
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THIS WORLD of OURS By Bob Harwood Copenhagen Hopes And Expectations I file this with the Copenhagen Climate Conference underway and new developments by the hour raise hopes that meaningful action may yet emerge. Obama’s commitments to reduce emissions 17% by 2020, but from 2005 levels, and to attend Copenhagen provided momentum. Then the
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CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen Rosario Guadalupe Rodríguez Huizar This is 8-month old Rosario Guadalupe Rodríguez Huizar in the arms of her mother, María de Jesús. Rosario (or “Chayito” here in Mexico) is the youngest of six children and lives with her mother, father and siblings in Ajijic. Mom is a housewife
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