THE OJO INTERNET MAILBOX(Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.) MARK SCONCE: Poet And Prince Among Men Mark R. Sconce I am your namesake of sorts I guess. I am not certain how we are related but we must be at some point in the distant past. My fathers family hails from […]
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Understanding The Land By Kay Davis Imagine the Lake Chapala landscape 40,000 years ago. Fossil evidence shows that ancestral mammoths, mastodons, camels and horses roamed the area before the basins were filled by water. At night the landscape was illuminated by the glow of scores of volcanoes in a zone 150 miles wide. This
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Tenacatita Bay By An Anonymous Contributor Sunrise A final star winks out : old lady moon drives by, sad and alone hunched in her 1989 white Cadillac : she’s off to rest all day in the chateau her second husband left her. Black trees become dark green then lighter green – the whitewash of the sky
Focus on Art By Rob Mohr Psychological Art of Gabriel Mariscal “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” –Thomas Merton Art combines imagination, emotion, and reason – which, throughout, guides the educated and refined use of the materials and elements that physically give an art work form. Emotion,
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Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt Let’s do lunch! The other day, a food friend and I decided to run some errands and have lunch. Having lunch at Lakeside can sometimes be a challenge especially during “high” season. I always suggest people to have a plan “A”, and a plan “B.”First of all, when
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The Ghosts Among Us By Fred Mittag Black Elk (1863-1950) Thomas Morgan, the US Commissioner of Indian Affairs, wrote a review after the massacre at a South Dakota creek called Wounded Knee: “It is hard to overestimate the magnitude of the calamity which happened to the Sioux people by the sudden disappearance of the
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Transition A Short Story by Rob Mohr Lucy, as was her custom, sat at Will’s feet for security and mental comfort. From time to time he would reach down and scratch her head just between her ears, her favorite spot. On occasion she would look up with mournful eyes softened by a glimmer of
LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com April 2018 OPEN CIRCLE Sunday morning finds many Lakeside residents at the Lake Chapala Society and Open Circle, a forum on a variety of stimulating topics. A social hour with coffee and snacks at 10 am is followed by an interesting lecture and discussion at 10:30.
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Flawed Candidates By Henri Loridanshenri.loridans@gmail.com Thomas Jefferson performed poorly as a wartime governor of Virginia, 1779 to 1781. When the Redcoats got close to Richmond, he jumped on the fastest horse he could find and skedaddled. He dallied with one of his slaves and sired offspring who in turn became slaves. Despite his flaws,
Making Sense Out Of Life By Paul Allen Unless severely handicapped from the get-go, our entrance into this world of living beings, most of us humans begin to assess living from an experiential perspective. This is coupled with direct programming from parents, teachers, peers, and, oh yes, the ever-present media. The problem is that
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