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Title	Content	Author
Poetry Niche – July 2022	HAIKU A haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature intuitively linked to the human …	Mel Goldberg
Profiling Tepehua – July 2022	A PROFILE OF A WOMAN. (A Tepehua Story). My name is woman, I have the face of poverty. Like so many of my sisters I …	Moonyeen King
“He who feeds a hungry animal, feeds his own soul.”	This Charlie Chaplin phrase became the mission statement for Pet Food Bank Lakeside. Pet Food Bank was started over two years ago when Julie Wittmann …	Ojo Del Lago
Verdant View – July 2022	JULY “Answer July—Where is the Bee—Where is the Blush—Where is the Hay? Ah, said July—Where is the Seed—Where is the Bud—Where is the May—Answer Thee—Me—” ~ …	Francisco Nava
Blind Date	Patricia Holley was sitting in the entryway of a restaurant, in downtown Ajijic, expecting to meet her perfect match. Friends had set her up with …	Sue Schools
The Brutal End	In Mexico City´s Palacio de Bellas Artes there is a large mural painted in 1950 by David Alfaro. La Tormenta de Cuauhtémoc depicts Cortés’s torture …	Herbert Piekow
Fidelity, Wherefore Art Thou?	A couple of months ago, I went back to California to get vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine. In Mexico, I had been given the Chinese …	Larry Kolczak
Lakeside Living – July 2022	Kim LeMieux Email: kimslakesideliving@gmail.com The Lake Chapala Society host Open Circle every Sunday at 10:30am, a popular community gathering in Ajijic, to enjoy a diverse range …	Kim LeMieux
Murderous Addictions	Getting Them Before They Get Us Addictions can kill you. I know. I almost died. It was not until a mid-life event happened to me …	Don Beaudreau
“From Physics Comes Beauty”	In Slovenia, there is a flute in a museum that came from a cave of Neanderthals. The flute is 50,000 years old and was carved …	Fred Mittag
Let’s Get Physical	When Olivia Newton-John reached #1 with “(Let’s Get) Physical” in 1981, we all knew she wasn’t urging us to become more active, even though the …	Tom Nussbaum
Life in the Laugh Lane – July 2022	I Thought I Was Going To Live Alone I moved to the countryside near Sansai, eight miles out of Chiangmai. When I step outside to …	Scott Jones
Ramblings From The Ranch – July 2022	Wendy’s Story This past April The Ranch was contacted by a man that claimed he needed to move back to Canada the first of May …	Ranch Staff
The Crow	I live among crows. They fly in asynchronous formation through the fifty-foot redwoods that stand in great beauty beside a row of tiny apartments. This …	Patricia Hemingway
Vexations and Conundrums – July 2022	Politics, Religion, Toilet Tissue Visits to my mother in Louisiana are full of surprises. Two of my sisters take turns staying with her, and both …	Katina Pontikes
Streets of Mexico – July 2022	Lázaro Cárdenas “I made an effort to serve my country… with greater commitment to the needy people,” Lázaro Cárdenas wrote in his journal after he’d …	David Ellison
The World Is Made Of Plastic	“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” -The Lorax It should come as no surprise …	Lorin Swinehart
Editor’s Page – July 2022	Dying for Action The one thing these current times will not be remembered as is the “Age of Reason.” I have spent most of the …	Victoria Schmidt