LINDA BUCKTHORP—“A Woman of Valor”* By Elsa Wasserman Today Linda lives in the “house of her dreams” overlooking Ajijic Village, her gardens (mostly desert plants to save water), Lake Chapala and the encircling Sierra Madre Mountains. She journeyed, however, over much difficult terrain to finally reach this place. Seeing Linda for the first time at […]
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Time Is Like A River By An Anonymous Contributor Time is like a river.You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of life. As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a grave
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Bones Bones betray your perfect skinyour grey-green eyes,your secret smile –always beneath the smilebehind the eyesalways I see the bones. Moments of tendernessmoments of hopesomehow entangle me,though I know this universemust end, and these soft armshide only bones. I throw these words downto be consumed –no sonnet will speak my love,only my sweet
Volcanoes In The Neighborhood By Alice Hathaway Live volcanoes often have craters where rain collects in scalding lakes. When underground heat rises through the water, steam bursts into the sky. As the pressure of gas and hot ejecta builds in the tube, the clouds rise higher. Scientists can guess that an eruption may be
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Dear Portia Advice to the Lovelorn the Overfed and the Deeply Disgruntled Portia, Portia! Just hazarding a guess here, but I think you may be the twit who lacks a life! You remember Lucretia? She’s been the pigment of your infatuation for some time now, and, well, the sad truth is she also was mine. My
MEXICO: Safety over Sensationalism Courtesy of AMAR* Baja, California -Mexico, one of the world’s great travel destinations, is often singled out for violent crime without telling the whole story. While there is sporadic violence along parts of the U.S. border, the majority of Mexico’s key tourism areas are not only safe, but safer than
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Silentium Withdraw, be silent and conceal The dreams you hold and what you feel. Within your soul in stillness let Your inner visions rise and set Like stars at night in their commute: Pay homage to them—and be mute. How can the soul its truth impart? How can another know your heart Or
The Story Of The Three Egrets By Tony Burton Three related but different species of white herons can often be seen somewhere near water almost anywhere in Western Mexico, including Lake Chapala and other nearby ponds and drainage ditches. They are the great egret, the cattle egret and snowy egret. If all three species
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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by Fred Mittag For more editorials, visit: http://thedarksideofthedream.com “Is this crazy, or what?!” Cuba is an allegory for all Latin America, because hardly one of those countries has escaped being pushed around by the bully to the north. No Latin nation has lost more to the U.S. than Mexico – half their
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The Enigma Of Mexico’s Plumed Serpent By Ralph F. Graves In myth, he was a powerful god-king. In reality, his influence spanned centuries. As a human, he was a kindly priest-ruler. As a deity, he was god of the wind, part bird, part serpent. And in history, his prophesied “return from the east” foreshadowed
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