Once she turned to me and said, “The light has never left me.”Beside her chair lay a pad titled: Instructions for the Delivery Man.This is how she let me in.
Knock onceThen wait.Not hesitation—anticipation.I savor the pausebefore the world enters.Bring nothing I can buy for myself.No chocolates.No flowers.No hollow words...
Also known as: Carpet of Snow, Sea Alyssum, Seaside Koniga, Seaside Lobularia, Snowdrift, Sweet Alice, Sweet Alison, Sweet Alyssum, and Seaside LobulariaFamily: BrassicaceaeOrigin: Southern Europe, northern Africa, the Azores, Madeira Islands, and the Canary Islands
Typically growing to a height of three to nine inches, spreading from ten to forty-eight...
Anyone who’s lived in the tropics knows it. The early morning feel of a hot and humidday. But that’s the time to be out and about.
Some expats can’t handle the summers in Manzanillo. They’ll go back to Canada or maybehead for a higher elevation town for a few months....
As many of you know, K-dramas (Korean Dramas) have been my comic relief from the global theatrics for the past 10 years. Just recently, an episode delivered some insightful words which I found timely and particularly applicable to this month’s 9 Vibrational Field. DM
I paraphrase: “When something is over, ends through...
Be still—not as the world teaches stillness,but the stillness that silences time,that wraps you like a shawl of peace,that knows there is no distancebetween you and the Divine.
Before the seed,before the word,before thought itself—there is a clearing,
a letting go—like soil made ready for planting,a holy ground of silencewhere life...
Also known as: Checker-barked Juniper, Oak-barked Juniper, Thickbark Juniper, Western Juniper or (H’mm, somewhat interesting aliases!) Oakbark Cedar or Mountain CedarFamily: CupressaceaeOrigin: From the southwestern US through west Texas into Mexico
Traditional, purported, and contemporary uses: Nifty Nugget of Knowledge: According to mythology, Juniper boughs have been used to ward...
''You have been given fairly simple and straightforward instructions on how to realize who you really are and live as who you are on the earth. You may wonder why so few people avail themselves of what is right in front of them in the moment.
Part of it has...
Another great morning and perfect weather; today I jumped in a Mototaxi and had the driver drop me off at Ave La Audencia, the road that goes up the hill toward the Hotel Las Hadas. This is the peninsula that ‘double scoops’ Manzanillo Bay, and where a few rich...
Sometimes the loudest voices in the room are the quiet ones inside your head. I wrote this as a reminder to myself—a way to evict the company I’ve kept too long. E.Z.
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”...
by Zhander P'ng My very last morning in this city arrives wrapped in a quiet peace I didn’t realize I’d crave so deeply. Last night, after handing Naomi those final bags—my real goodbye, tucked in bubble wrap and gratitude—my body let go.
Fever crept in like a soft warning: Rest,...
