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Mirror To The Universe—MUSIC TRANSFORMS

Mirror To The Universe —MUSIC TRANSFORMS By Rob Mohr   “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” Leonard Bernstein When I was a child my uncle John Edmond MacQueen, a Davidson graduate, played Opera every evening. The tragedy of Puccini’s La Boehme haunted, and the simplicity of Verdi’s La Traviata lifted my spirit. […]

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Malinche

Malinche By David Ellison   Malinche (also known as Marina, Malintzin, Malinal…) remains one of the most enigmatic and controversial characters in Mexican history. According to Texan historian T. R. Fehrenbach, “If there is one villainess in Mexican history, she is [Malinche]. She was to become the ethnic traitress supreme.” Meanwhile, Colorado Professor Cordelia Candelaria

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Lakeside Living – February 2021

LAKESIDE LIVING Carol D. Bradley Email: cdbradleymex@gmail.comPhone: 33-2506-7525 February 2021   “The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today…The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately.” Seneca Our Lakeside community is reeling; still reeling, from the insidiousness of the Covid-19 virus.  After months, almost a year, of sheltering in place,

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Mexican Grace – February 2021

Mexican Grace This is a regular feature column inspired stories that manifest “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

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