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Comment on Corn Kernal Treasure for the Chorti by Laura

Laura — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:36:27 +0000

Popol Vuh has been on my list of books to read for a long time. Looking forward to reading it.

I promise I’m reorganizing to dedicate more time to the blog. I’ve already missed sharing so much… kind of turns my stomach thinking I haven’t written about special moments that I’ve experienced lately. And, I feel I’ve missed the window for sharing them. I must make writing a priority again…

Comment on Corn Kernal Treasure for the Chorti by GDN

GDN — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:12:32 +0000

Cool story…I just finished the Popol Vuh…Leave it to Burroughs to once again point the way down fascinating corridors of inquiry. Hard to believe what’s happened to this once-mighty kingdom.

Comment on Back to Paradise by Laura

Laura — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:48:25 +0000

Mom! When are you coming to visit… and actually BE HERE??!!

Comment on Back to Paradise by Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:55:34 +0000

Beautiful descriptions – sounds lovely, I can almost feel I’m there!

Comment on Mamitas Photogs in Playa del Carmen by GDN

GDN — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:02:28 +0000

Maybe it’s in the blood…and yet this feeling gnaws at him, this sense of something not being fed by his life. He wants beauty, color, form, something that whispers magic to him.

There is only one thing I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Observations worth highlighting to share with you on this, most idle of evenings, even if they have many miles to cross, mountain to climb, valleys to plunge and deserts to thirst from.

Comment on Mamitas Photogs in Playa del Carmen by Laura

Laura — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:54:25 +0000

Ufff yes… struggling to find the time to really put in the time to give it a proper redesign. Trying to get to it ASAP! Thanks for your support and patience… warm hugs!!

Comment on Mamitas Photogs in Playa del Carmen by GDN

GDN — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:36:22 +0000

Looks like the website is getting a reboot after all, though it’s loading slower it seems. Like the new logo.

Comment on Charmed in Playa del Carmen by GDN

GDN — Thu, 26 May 2011 23:14:57 +0000

I knew this passage felt familiar, reminded me of something… The cool draft through the window screen today was just what my overcast mind needed to glimpse it – Edna Pontellier from Chopin’s The Awakening.
She swam twice in the Gulf, both defining experiences: the first resurrected her soul; the second affected her demise at novel’s end. Look at how closely your post relates to Chopin’s passage below:

“The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clearing, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in the abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.”

Comment on Sunbathing Topless in Cancun… by GDN

GDN — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:35:48 +0000

Mmm, I’d say that the most curious aspect of this piece is how much restraint there is with the photo clips… ;-I’m certain a large portion of your male readership clicked and that link with there pulse in their throat, then boom — just a tease. Cue the muttered curses, the eye gouged by the screen cursor, the lowered head over the keyboard like a wind-crippled stem (???)… Sucks to be those dudes… Narratively, it’s superb — I’m chuckling at their expense.

Speaking of naked musings by Midwesterners, the great Missourian Mark Twain was quoted saying that modesty died when clothes were invented, since clothes (i.e. the Emperor’s robes) are often more powerful than the man who wears them, exactly for what they don’t reveal…but He also had a sense of humor about it as well:

“At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.”
— Mark Twain

Comment on Guatemala: Living in a Landfill by sunaina

sunaina — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:53:58 +0000

i feel so pitty…this is the worse i have ever seen….i wish i got an oppurtunity to do some charity or help to the people of guate….