December 2011

Hearts at Work A Column by James Tipton “The Rascal Sage”   George Gurdjieff, the “Rascal Sage,” was born in 1870 of a Greek father and Armenian mother in the Caucasus region of Russia. According to Kathleen Riordan Speeth in The Gurdjieff Work, he wandered the world “to find the remnants, the descendants, or the […]

Lakeside Living   Shelley Edson Phone: 376 – 765 – 4049 Email: Shelley.el.ojo@gmail.com December 2011 The winners of the November 3, 2011 Cruz Roja golf classic were Mary and Brooks Wingrave, Rod and Maggie Pye. The day was a great success. The Country Club de Chapala golf course was in perfect condition, the weather not too

SOME SHOCKING INFORMATION By Robert Kleffel and Jim Tipton   Every Wednesday morning we eat breakfast together on the Ajijic Plaza and discuss our common interests in literature and all things beautiful. Often as we ponder deeply the merits of this or that, we find ourselves distracted by a beautiful señorita who, totally indifferent to

FUNNY STRANGE By John Hicks   Many years ago when I was in my 20s, I broke up with a girlfriend. She dumped me in fact because we had not gotten married nor moved toward it in the two years we had lived together.  Fed up, she declared she would move out.  Just before she moved out, I was in

Tamed By Bonnie L. Phillips otterwomanwrites@yahoo.com   Josh looked at the “wild animal” with sadness in his eyes. He had saved money for five years in order to see the last living tiger on Earth. She was surrounded by glass on three sides to allow the people who stood in line to watch her before

Changing The Future By Mike and Sally Myers     Think about how good you would feel if you could give a rewarding future to someone who otherwise would never get a chance to have what we do: a good life! And change it not only for them, but also for their families and future

QUESTIONS ABOUT CHAPALA? Courtesy of Elliott’s Ajijic Update   All I hear about is the violence in Mexico, how can it be safe? DRIVE into any inner city crime area in the US and the area you will be in has much higher crime rates than Mexico. The difference is that in the US the

RE-DESIGNING ANGEL’S WINGS By Bob Tennison   Adrian’s Boutique was undoubtedly the most exotic store in the city. The highest fashions with prices to match. It was located in an upscale shopping village away from the main part of town, and its window displays always attracted tourists and residents alike with their cameras, and TV

Congressional Reform!   1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. 2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow

THE LEGEND OF THE KWAYTAYS By Micki Wendt   Once upon a time there was a village on a beautiful lake in the mountains of a very faraway land that had almost perfect weather almost all the time. The people fished, grew crops, raised families, and were peaceful and happy and spent a lot of