Om nama shivaya
Axé.
Axé.
I unexpectedly saw the inauguration of the live Nativity at 4:30 PM, 23 December 2011, at the shrine of St. Francis of Assisi at Columbus and Vallejo in San Francisco. There were four angels, three shepherds, two goats, two lambs, one llama, one donkey, and one Holy Family with a live baby. Outside was an … More St. Francis of Assisi
They loved Granada like a woman. Even today tears well up in their eyes when they remember the loss of their dear Granada the town of the Chamorros … Where once there was love. At last the pure waters, the clean blue breezes of the early morning and out of Granada with its red corpses … More Granada after Walker
I like the vertical bands in this photograph – the upper wall, the mountain, the shade, the couch, with the vertical breaks of the windowframe and lamps. Axé.
I ended up in Granada, Nicaragua in December of 2005, because it was so inexpensive to get there and I wanted to get away from Katrina’s New Orleans. Had I been thinking more clearly I would have remembered what I usually explain: that Louisiana is like Honduras, El Salvador or Nicaragua, so to go to … More Granada, Nicaragua as seen by our narrator
There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now. EUGENE O’NEILL, A Moon for the Misbegotten. Axé.
Walker in good spirits produced long cavalcades through the streets. — But, downhearted, Corral never left his house … And that day on which he was arrested (tried by court-martial, the prisoner then threw himself on the mercy of Walker, and Walker: that the prisoner would be shot at noon) ladies came, with Señora Corral, … More Continuing on with Walker in Nicaragua
At one stage they are recorded as threatening to turn over suspects being interrogated to the Wolf Brigade, a feared police commando group trained by the Americans and widely accused of torturing and even killing detainees. At other times detainees were physically handed over and, according to a New York Times journalist, US troops stood … More Bradley Manning’s pre-trial hearing starts today
Axé.
This is from before I was born, but it still applies. To really go to California, you must speak Spanish and drive north on the Golden Gate Bridge, as I will do later today. Axé, Mariano Vallejo, viejo traidor sin opciones. Here is a video with which I identify more closely. Axé.