The Hitchhiker By J.T. Dodds “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”—Allen Watts […]
Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen King President of the Board for Tepehua moonie1935@yahoo.com The Tepehua Community Center is breaking ground for the barrio´s first Communal Toilet. It will be situated at the back of the Center and its purpose is to stem the flow, literally, of the ‘open defecation’ in the area. The ideal solution
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SPLAT! The Weird And Wonderful World Of Insects By Dr. Lorin Swinehart We have all had it happen. We have been driving down the road on a warm summer day, when suddenly a behemoth of an insect splatters all over the windshield, always leaving behind an ugly yellow gob of insect goo. Later, it
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COVID Yeats By John Sacelli Here is my own version of what I think we might come to expect post COVID. It is based on a memory of my college years. For the last two of my undergraduate years at Yale, I lived in a private home next door to the secret society
An Investment In Time By Mel Goldberg Ron Bates, a balding forty-five year old accounting clerk, walked down the polished black marble hall, looking furtively at his reflection. His reflection smirked at him, as if to emphasize his receding chin. Working as an accountant for ten years, he had recently begun to find it
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A Mission to the Huichol By Alan Pohl The Huichol, or more properly Wixarika, are an ancient people group who live high up in the Sierra Madre Mountains. This was our second visit to the village of La Laguna, situated at the north west tip of Jalisco, in four years and we were privileged
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Editor’s Page By Victoria A. Schmidt Drive Safely As more people have moved to the Lakeside area, the traffic problem has grown worse. The most dangerous road here is the carretera. It doesn’t help that it is constantly under renovation. The Walmart intersection has been increasingly confusing. Traffic has been bottled up as people
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The Daily Life Of Jesus Of Nazareth By Dr. Lorin Swinehart So often, he is portrayed as a white man, with blue eyes and shoulder length hair. Contrary to such images, he would have had olive colored skin, rendered even darker by long days in the harsh Levantine sunlight. His eyes would have been
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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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Survivor’s Guilt By Jack Estes I’ve always felt guilty for not getting shot in Vietnam. I used to think if I lost an arm or a leg it would justify my trouble inside. As I caught my flight out of Portland to San Diego, for a reunion with Bob and Doc, I wondered what
