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El que es perico, donde quiera es verde / He who is parakeet, wherever he wants is green

21 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments marjuanm

  Este dicho habla de las virtudes que una persona demuestra en todo momento y en cualquier lugar sin importar las adversidades, es decir la persona muestra sus cualidades y aptitudes para conseguir sus objetivos, aunque no sea tan fácil.   This say...

Forever Like a Dove

19 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, musicand dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more."Wikipedia "Apollo is Spanish for 'a chicken.'"Pablo Smog   Yo mom, I was thinking about the first time we...

Double NARCAN Espresso, To Go

6 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Back in the day, coffee shops served coffee, pharmacies could be trusted to provide clean, medical-grade pharmaceuticals, and Madonna was a pop star. Things have changed. According to Mexico Daily Post, "pharmacies in several northwestern Mexico citi...

Good Night For A Mexico Spirit

3 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"McCarthy was right."The Internet   In a moment of existential despair and self-absorbent angst, I purchased a pack of Mexico Spirit cigarettes today.  Not Mexic-an Spirit, Mexic-o Spirit.  The first drag was brutal.  Clearly, the tobacco was cured i...

It's a Gateway World

1 Jul 2023 17 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”Ephesians 4:29   I am in Mexico for every reason.  Good, bad, and everything in between.  Beautiful a...

We All Deserve A Break, And Mine Is SOON!

27 Jun 2023 2 minute read 1 comment CodyMac50

Mexico is a country really like no other. Once you cross the Rio Grande, (Rio Bravo as they call it in Mexico) you enter what seems like an alternate reality. You meet some of the poorest begging for a few pesos, or dollars immediately as you walk in...

The Bible is the Truth (read it!)

18 Jun 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

1.  The Museum Glass of Heaven I went to Juárez, Mexico with a church group in January of 1994.  We were there to build a house.  By "house" I mean concrete structure that may or may not have had any holes in the floor or walls for plumbing and elect...

God Puts a Mexican Filter on NYC

15 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Mexico is sepia, old, and shadowy."Dulce Maria Sauri   I'm in the middle of re-watching Steven Soderbergh's 2000 film Traffic, which is better than I remember.  It's an interesting snapshot of the time in which it was made.  Pre-9/11, pre-2006 Mexic...

Mexico and cartel wars - recent news

30 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

The ongoing Mexican drug war between various cartels, particularly the Sinaloa Cartel and the CJNG (Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Gènèracion), has escalated in intensity and poses a significant threat to the growing ties between the United States and Mexico....

The Peaceful Fray

18 Apr 2023 13 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

My neighbor listens to a lot of old-school U2.  He's a hardcore gritty mechanic type who speaks absolutely no English and whose yard is an open-air garage full of trees, prehistoric beercans, and car parts.  In fact his gate isn't a gate at all, it's...