On May 15th, 2020, we reached our one-year mark of living in Ajijic, Mexico. It has been an incredible year! The first six months were challenging as we adjusted and adapted, but we’ve now found our place of comfort, safety and joy. Then 2020 brought Covid-19 that shut down the world! The Turning of the Ages, with Pluto and Saturn, arrived with a fury, and a Great Pause came over the land. What a gentler and quieter time it’s been, even in Mexico, where the normally high noise level has abated and the village looks a bit like a ghost town. For such a social, Earth-based culture it’s rather sad to see, but La Gran Mamá evidently needed to put her children in a time out. Alex and I wonder if we didn’t have some form of covid infection ourselves in mid-January, as we were quite ill with some unnamed […]
Gringos in Paradise – Phase II – Seven Months In
Seven months into Gringolandia find us enjoying our mañana lifestyle where it’s OK to put off today what you can do tomorrow, or the next day or next week! We feel we have entered Phase II of our permanent Mexican vacation—living more comfortably and consciously in our adopted country. The first six months, as mentioned in prior posts, felt like “bootcamp”, or campo de entrenamiento (say that quickly after a couple shots of tequila!). It has been an initiation into a different culture, language, monetary system, and living at 5,000’ on an uneven, rocky terrain. However, we’re living and learning—estamos viviendo y aprendiendo—and adapting nicely! It took us nearly six months, but we found our ideal, bright, modern lakeview home that we have leased for a year or more. We are feeling blessed, having gotten our sky back and being able to watch the planetary conjunctions along the ecliptic celestial […]