Protected: another day of rain

Si en un poema te ofrecen un vaso de agua y al leerlo sentis su frescura quien te lo ofrece se llama poeta Humberto Ak’abal

Today is a beautiful day outside, with brilliant blue skies and silky white wispy clouds. The air is crisp and clean (as unpolluted as you can get with living downtown Calgary) and I’m feeling rather solemn, thinking about the meaning behind this holiday weekend that we have here in Canada. Not only is it a…

Herein began the day of the ultimate adventure …traversing the mountains in a Guatemalan bus. I left the orphanage with a multitude of heartfelt ‘Adios’es, making my way to an unknown bus heading to Quetzaltenango (commonly and fondly referred to as Xela — pronounced Shela) at an unknown time and departure point. I was ferried…

One of my dearest girlfriends had her first baby today! After 3 painful days of back labour (Ouch! What a trooper Lisa for hanging in as long as you did!), gorgeous little Michael Maly the 3rd (lovingly dubbed M3 by his little cousin Joe) was born at 6:28 pm, weighing 8 lbs. 9 oz. and…