by Think In The Morning | Sep 10, 2018 | Mexico, Words |
He feels as if he’s being watched. He looks up from the book to scan his surroundings. He sees nothing but green leaves, muted flowers, darkness. He listens. He hears only the singing of the grasshoppers, chapulines as they are called in the markets in Oaxaca....
by Think In The Morning | Sep 9, 2018 | Mexico |
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] I want to sleep in the country, by the river, to retrieve the dreams of my youth. Gerardo Navarro Gómez The story of the life to date of the Zapotec, Oaxacan, Mexican artist Gerardo Navarro Gómez...
by Think In The Morning | Sep 6, 2018 | Mexico, Words |
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Two years ago Think in the Morning wrote about Monty and Pilar (Huertos Bi Nisa): Some Traditional Markets of Oaxaca. Since then their Saturday market location has moved from outside Casa de las...
by Think In The Morning | Aug 25, 2018 | Mexico |
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] 43 students disappeared from Ayotnizapa College in Iguala, Mexico on September 26, 2014. To date the case has not been solved. In June of this year an investigative commission for truth and justice...
by Think In The Morning | Aug 24, 2018 | Mexico, Words |
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Back in Oaxaca. A ghost. The mother in the quirky movie Volver (To Return) or is it the other way around, Juan Preciado in Pedro Páramo? I’ve left something undone. No idea what that might be but I’ll...
by Think In The Morning | Jun 6, 2018 | Mexico, Words |
Travelling to Oaxaca is a short story in five parts. The earlier parts can be found here: Part I Part II Part III Part IV The world is beautiful and outside there is no salvation. Albert Camus At my age I have to avoid repeating myself. I think I told...
