¡Mil Gracias!

1. Getting from-the-road reports from my family enroute to San Miguel, getting closer and closer.

2. Getting 20 meters of cheesecloth to dye/stain/rust for my art. For reasons I have a hard time articulating, I really like cheesecloth -- the texture, the look, the way it stretches and pulls, who knows what. It's just excellent stuff. So anyway, I sent Luzma out with $200 pesos (which is about $15USD) and told her to buy as much as she could with that. So at $10 pesos a meter, I end up wi… Continue

1. Floating on my back in the hot springs (really hot today) looking up at a sky with clouds fingercombed in great sweeping striations, watching birds tend a nest way up high in a cypress tree, feeling my body move with the current of the incoming water...

2. For better or worse, I am grateful that I could walk into a pharmacy today and ask for the anti-depressants I was taking in the States awhile ago (prescription, of course) and get them, over-the-counter, without the bat of an eye. I could… Continue

1. Interesting buttons.
2. My Victorinox Swiss Army Knife, which has been with me for a lot of years.
3. Nushu.
4. When a headache finally goes away, leaving you with a headache shadow.
5. Moonstones.

Internet has been so wonky lately, especially in the evenings when I got to post... so... I haven't been so diligent... sigh.

For today:
1. Stephanie is 42 today. Hard to believe that precious little bundle that I held in awe and wonder all those years ago has two bundles of her own and has become such an amazing woman and friend. Who could have guessed where our lives have taken us since those first tentative days (for both of us) in Honolulu?

2.… Continue