Letter to the Editor Dear Sir: I wish to respond, with feeling, to Sunny Glessner’s witty question What Memory? – (El Ojo del Lago, April 2013) Sunny writes, “My challenge is my memory,” and goes on to say that she has used lists for years, “but now I forget to take the list with …
Joyful MusingsBy Joy Birnbach Dunstan, MA, LPC, MAC Restoring Body, Mind, and Spirit It’s June, the month the long-awaited rains traditionally arrive to soak our parched Lakeside with life-giving water. Dormant grasses and trees spring to life, turning the dusty brown hillsides lush and verdant seemingly overnight. All the ingredients for a luxuriant landscape …
Anita’s Animals By Jackie Kellum Having a pet is a wonderful experience, but it requires the human to take responsibility for the pet that relies totally on its “owner” for its wellbeing. The following are some simple basic things needed to be done. Whether your pet is considered solely an indoor pet or not, …
Child of the month By Rich Petersen Juan Raúl García Jasso This young man with the ‘kind of funny” smile is Juan Raúl García Jasso.Juan Raúl is an only child and lives with his parents, Irene, a housewife and Raúl, a mason, in Ajijic. In June he will be eight years old. He’s …
The Lot In Paraiso Fiction by James Tipton Anna María had lived alone a long time now. It had been nine years since her beloved Juan Ramón told her he was leaving her. They had been together forty years, but one day he announced he was going without her to a little pueblo far …
This Year Alas, Your Wallet Every time you travel down to Mexico you lose something, sun-struck calamities afternoon misplacements while you nap, worries about work happily lost along with intentions to diet, drink less and this year alas, your wallet, its leather and lost pesos adrift among the lavish bougainvilleas. How will you …
PROFILING TEPEHUA By Moonyeen King moonie1935@yahoo.com Executives of Human Rights Watch sent out a 92-page report on “The Second Assault,” outlining “the disrespect, suspicion and apathy that rape victims encounter from public prosecutors and health workers; also exposing pervasive impunity for rape and other forms of sexual violence in states throughout Mexico.” Kenneth Roth stated: …
LAKESIDE LIVING Kay Davis Phone: 376 – 108 – 0278 (or 765 – 3676 to leave messages) Email: kdavis987@gmail.com June 2013 PAST EVENTS CASA, the Culinary Arts Society of Ajijic, cancelled the May meeting (a first); instead, they want to tell you more about their organization. CASA was founded in 1986 and continues offering …
The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce Bards of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) It was my third visit to the State of Bengal and its capital, Calcutta, this time for a brief vacation from my work in Peace Corps/Nepal. Indian friends made clear that Calcutta was India’s culture capital. Literature and poetry, classical music and …
Of Ashes… In such a small unearthly urn Where father’s ashes lay, Can it be that all he learned Will be interred today? Can everything that he discerned Be fitted well within This modest, gilded funeral urn Inscribed with seraphim? An urn so small, so light in weight, How can it hold a man …
