Thrive, Life is your Opportunity!
Wasn't planning to post today but the day turned out to be more interesting than I expected. We had not noticed the nativity scene in the middle of the parroquia until this morning when we went for a walk. It is the finest nativity scene I have ever seen, but keep in mind I might be a heathen with …
[Read more...] about Christmas Day: The calm after the peaceful happy storm
It is odd that in this shrunken world of technological proximity I feel remote from the world we left a bit over a month ago. I believe Christmas has something to do with that, not that I understand why it would. Christmas has not been an important landmark for me for decades. It hasn't …
[Read more...] about Christmas Eve: Best to plan ahead and where the old meets the new
As we walk around the old historic part of town, centro, we are consistently impressed by the artful quality of what we see. The subject needs some explanation. Art has an aspect of subjectivity. The art I am referring to reflects attention to nature and detail without making concessions to …
[Read more...] about All About Art II: Doors and more musings
There is an area a bit north of the centro district in San Miguel de Allende known as Colonia Guadalupe. In Mexico neighborhoods are called colonias. This blog entry is a pictorial walk through Guadalupe. Not all the pictures were gifted with great light, but I hope you still can …
[Read more...] about All About the Art: Guadalupe and its Murals
We started today by staying in bed, in spite of a flurry of M-80 firecrackers, closer to us than ever before, (firecrackers are not an unusual event here) at 6:30am. They are loud and woke us out of sound sleep. Okay, we already had enough sleep but with no obligations on our calendar we chose to …
[Read more...] about Da Vinci, the Rosewood and Another Great Hot Chocolate: A day of exploration.
