Category Archives: Mexico 2008 (Chemax, Mexico City, Cancún)
143 – And here I am, waiting for something to break my heart
On The Yucatán, I The northern boys fell at a palm tree, white sand concrete shoe box, where it was all foaming at the mouth and poison pools. I would’ve rather drowned in the cave bound to your belly and … Continue reading
101 – 101 is about continuing to greater numbers
Today I picked red, ripe cherry tomatoes from my father’s backyard garden. I don’t even like tomatoes, generally, but there’s a lot of freedom and charm in squinting my eyes to find the reddest and ripest of these supple little … Continue reading
061 – small and quiet words, looming sounds
I can tell I am taking things for granted, more and more every day. maybeiamlivingincancunagain…
015 – More Mexico Photos and a Bible Camp Story
Me as a mighty paint warrior after the first day in Chemax Carlos y Joaquin, brothers, barefoot in the village My territory, on the left. Placido Domingo once sang right where I was standing.It’s hard to tell in this picture, … Continue reading
012 – On Satisfaction
I want to write some sort of all-encompassing final wrap-up to my Mexico entries, because I’ve already given you the stuff in my notebook and then some. But I can’t even face it. I don’t understand it. I don’t even … Continue reading
011 – Things about Jesus.
There are a couple things about mass multi-person celebrations of faith in Mexico that I never wrote about but don’t want to forget and can’t adequately explain to you but want to adequately explain to you. 1. Evening prayer in … Continue reading
Filed under Mass, Mexico 2008 (Chemax, Mexico City, Cancún), Religion, Spirituality
010 – Thank you for changing my vision.
(Lizeth in the middle, Diego, Florentio in back I think, and Luis?) More photos to come.
009 – The Basilica
I never wrote about the Basilica in detail. I wrote a few sentences, which comprise the first section, but that’s really kind of it. It’s a lot to digest, you know? And I didn’t even remember what day we went. … Continue reading
008 – Cancun
2008, 3 julio, jueves 23:23ishLocation: Cancun I still haven’t written about the Basilica yet. And probably a million other things. So far, to be honest with you, I’m not really enjoying Cancun. There are drunks everywhere. Floods of ‘em. College … Continue reading
007 – Teotihuacan
2008, 3 julio, juevesLocation: Teotihuacan. I know I’m missing at least one accent mark. Dear Journal, Yesterday I puked on the top of the Temple of the Sun. Erika, who is currently sitting next to me on the bus towards … Continue reading
006 – I am on a bus, riding the roads of Mexico (Yucatán)
2008, junior 30, lunes 15:05Location: leaving Valladolid When I get home, I think I want to read the letters of Saint Paul. Romans so far seems beautiful and hopeful. These last two, three, four, five days have been too much … Continue reading
005 – I wrote this entry in the dark after lights-out.
2008, 30 junio, Monday (barely), just past midnightLocation: Valladolid, in the hotel roomToday (well yesterday, but yesterday was only half an hour ago):-kids love me, even when I can’t say much of anything to them-Benito [a little boy] asked me … Continue reading
004 – Valladolid and Chemax
June 28, SaturdayLocation: Valladolid and Chemax [NOTE: I didn't actually write on the 28th, but I thought it was important to talk about, and I wrote some of this later anyway.] Our first day of work (“yesterday”) was isolating and … Continue reading
003 – Valladolid and Chemax
2008, June 27, viernes 16:16ish?Location: Valladolid and Chemax (the Mayan village) Today I ate some citrus fruit that was green on the outside and yellow on the inside. [EDIT: We found out that these were just unripened oranges. Good going, … Continue reading
002 – That wasn’t supposed to be a pun.
Chemax/to tha max — it really wasn’t. I’m typing up a lot of the things I wrote in my journal during my adventures in Mexico, because I figured it’d be hard to put it all together right now, you know? … Continue reading
