Magical ….

Oh what fun! Another day of languid enjoyment of family, fall splendour and warm autumn days. Being the photo-happy Aunt that I am, I spent a gleeful few hours cataloguing flips and spins on the trampoline and video digitizing (quite shakily, from the helm of a bicycle) the ecstatic skateboard ramp jumps made by Forrester….

I have a girlfriend in Arizona who has been diagnosed with papillary carcinoma cancer (throat and thyroid) and I am feeling very very sad for her … she has two boys, who I believe, live at home with her ex. The tumour in her throat is really large and the prognosis is looking rather scary….

Today was my day to catch up on photo and computer backup, as my iPod was left here at the orphanage for safekeeping. So many flies. Las Moscas!! Spent the whole day taking photos of the kids. Fabulous and oh so playful! The children love to have their photo taken, especially when they can visually…

“People become good by doing good; it is rare that a person is good by nature alone. Goodness does not exist so one can make use of it. Goodness does not flow from a place of weakness but one of power.” ~ Robert Dziekanski (the Polish gentleman who died at the hands of Canadian RCMP…

Another day, another massage. Gotta use those benefits up! What was supposed to be a therapeutic session of spiritual awakening turned out to be an expensive disappointment of a not-so-relaxing time-mismanagement. The Spa Europa had a beautiful exterior filled with false promise of services (and therefore expectations) lauded. What I had grown accustomed to in…

breathing is all that it takes to be a miracle ….