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Lokkal, SMA's Social Network
San Miguel online
Like Facebook, but local, our Digital Town Square, See all posts in SMA. (Join and post your own.)
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Watermelon and Death
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
My glibness is in accord with the lightheartedness they have towards death here in Mexico.
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740 Moons, Adelia Sayeg
Opening, Saturday, May 14
pictorial
I am part of those who seek to rescue that spiritual heritage of our ancestors.
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740 Lunas, Adelia Sayeg
Inauguración - Sábado, 14 de Mayo
pictórico
Soy parte de aquellos que buscan rescatar esa herencia espiritual de nuestros ancestros.
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They Take You Away
by David Armando Garza II, aka, Lynx Bigtooth Maple
The pure miracles of life do take you away. But they bring you back again.
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Why is this Night Different?
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Dogs and people are wackier during the full moon. Hospitals stock more blood...
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My Mexican Adventure
Opening, Friday, April 22
by Beverly Sky
I came very reluctantly to Mexico after the death of both of my parents.
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Who are the Russian People?
Talk, Saturday, April 23
by Frank Thoms
The Russia I knew is becoming another Russia, harkening back to Stalin days.
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Seven in One Stroke
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
What at the moment seems like a quick solution often make matters worse.
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Blue Unicorns, the Rise of the Novel
Isis Rodriguez, opening - Saturday, April 9
by Zyanya Gallegos
Isis battled social media giants for the right to post intelligent writing about her art works.
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Hold Your Horses
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
There is an etiquette when exploding things, a formal procedure that is followed.
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The Glorias, Gloria Steinem "Biopic"
Movie, Q&A with Director, Wednesday, March 30, 7pm
by Jeffrey R. Sipe
The bus was out of time, forever traveling to the next demonstration, the next talk, the next rally.
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It's the Wanting
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Now, when she exceeds her capacity to receive, I stop giving.
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Fear of Flying
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
...a staid individual, he did not want to let loose.
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Harvesting Papayas
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
The bad news is that almost everyone is distracted by the clown show that is modern culture.
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The Company I Keep
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Atheistic, he yet has a worshipful attitude towards nature.
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Another Pushy Gringo
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Children "make sense" of an abusive situation in a nonsensical way.
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Magical Mysterious Monarchs
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Material is no less mysterious a phenomenon than is consciousness; it may even be stranger.
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Me and My Big Mouth
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Life is messy. There are no simple answers, only simple-minded people.
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Love and Death
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Nothing affects our attitutude towards life as much as our attitude towards death.
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December / Diciembre 2021
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Our Divided Brain
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
The profound truths that are revealed by beauty, music and poetry are denigrated.
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Titane: French Film Series
by Jeffrey R. Sipe
Technological advances in filming and make-up enable the over-the-top body horror depicted.
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Very Tight, Very Thin
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
People die from kidney problems. She was in no condition to be alone.
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Cada quien sus filias
Sábado - teatro en QRO
por Colette Morya
La obsesiva con la limpieza y alergia a los fantasmas...
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Things Are Not What They Seem
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Blaming others is disempowering. Blaming the past robs the present of its potential.
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November / Noviembre 2021
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Keeping It All in Mind
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Many atheists feel very religious about their non-belief.
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All Hands On Deck
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
No one is going to do it for us. No one is going to deliver us out of this mess.
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A Brush With Death
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
So much of what we do is to distract us from the precarious situation that is our life.
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September / Septiembre 2021
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A Vow of Silence
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
The solution to (almost) all of our quandaries is to change our mind.
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The Art Walk Once More: pictorial
by Nitta Ruiz
This was officially the first Fabrica la Aurora Art Walk since the pandemic, although the word of it got out very late.
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Women in Art- opening
Saturday, August 7
by Maru Vázquez
...the power to pass from rays of resplendent light to desperate cries of immense joy and great pain.
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Mujeres en el Arte - inaguración
Sábado, 7 de Agosto
por Maru Vázquez
...el poder transitar de rayos de luz resplandeciente, a gritos desesperados de inmensa alegría y gran dolor.
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Escaping the Jungle
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
If we can be made to stop and think, we can keep the violence down to a minimum.
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The Octopus and the UFO
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
It is that nervous system and the intelligence associated with it that puts the alien in octopus.
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Consciousness and the City
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Our relationships define us. Our network of relationships is our community, our larger self.
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Having a Hormonal Experience
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
The hypothalamus controls the 'Four Fs': feeding, fighting, fleeing and mating.
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Cooking and Coding
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
When it comes to publicity, paper is just so medieval.
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Covid Stories
by Andrew Osta
People want to be surrounded by beauty, because the reality outside is so difficult and surreal.
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The Sense of Being Stared At
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
The same thing regularly happens to me when I am bicycling past a beautiful woman.
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Believe in Something
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - Santayana
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We're in Mexico
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Enlightenment values have only imperfectly penetrated Mexico.
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Follow the Science
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
When we wanted to chill the beer, we put the cans in the brook for a while.
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Seeing Things Anew
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
With all our greater connectivity we are communicating less.
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A Too Perfect Fit
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Physicists are forever struggling against the idea of God.
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Preface to This Week's Article
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
I do my morning yoga routine rooftop under the Mexican sun, itself half comforting, half menacing.
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Oaxaca vs San Miguel
by Andrew Osta
Women do not dress up in traditional embroidered dresses to sit on the corner and beg.
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Are You Thirsty?
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Recognizing someone else's needs is the basis of your psychological well-being.
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December / Diciembre 2020
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Forgetting to Remember
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
I wonder if we are not doing the same; elevating our shards of knowledge into rigid doctrines.
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December 20
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December 13
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Facing My Superstitions
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
I still sometimes feel bad. But, afterwards, I don't feel as bad about having felt bad.
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December 6
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November 29
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November / Noviembre 2020
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November 22
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November 15
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Why Do the Pigeons Play?
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
I feel guilty about a lot of things, but being a good son isn't one of them.
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November 8
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November 1
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October 25
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October 18
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Social Dilemmas
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Sharply rising teenage suicide rates tell us that it is a matter of life and death.
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October 11
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October 4
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Fiery and Watery Love
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
What was taken for granted is shown with new transcendental significance.
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September / Septiembre 2020
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September 27
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Speak To Me Like an Aztec
by Pat Hall
Nahuatl means water in all four directions... the Aztecs built Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) on a big lake.
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September 20
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September 13
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Agreeing to Disagree: It's Complicated
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
The ancient Greeks understood that with increase affluence and leisure come increased self-criticism and dreams of utopia.
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September 6
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August 30
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Art in Quarantine
by Andrew Osta
What's the point of making art when people are dying, when tomorrow is so uncertain?
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August 23
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"Si, Pero No" "Yes, But No"
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
EC has chosen to spend his later years painting dreamy nudes. It's good work, if you can get it.
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August 16
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From Hunger
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
I understood that my imagination of it had been the greatest obstacle to my recogniton of it.
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August 9
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August 2
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July 26
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July 19
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July 12
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Loss of Pressure
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
A lot of what we think, how we feel and how we react is driven by hormones.
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July 5
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Extending Community
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
As a species we survived... because we watch out for each other, because we are communal beings.
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June 28
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June 21
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Conventional Absurditites
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
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June 14
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Some Thoughts on Privilege
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Asking the police to resolve a problem is like asking the mafia for assistance...
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June 7
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A Kinder, Gentler Prejudice
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
When you have utopian expectations the slow plod of real reform seems worthless, especially when you are young.
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May 31
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Uncertain About Uncertainty
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Coming through a Nazi death camp probably puts all other forms of stress into perspective.
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Further Uncertainty
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
If you knew everything, the most delicious thing would be a surprise.
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May 24
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May 17
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Big, Bad Government
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
How different would the world be today if back in 1968 the Center for Disease Control had canceled Woodstock?
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May 10
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Imagine There's No Countries?!
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Imagining the virtues of anarchy is more easily done when you are a former Beatle gazing out of your multi-million dollar apartment...
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May 3
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Cleaning Up the Neighborhood: 1, 2, 3
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
My Mexican neighbor speaks perfect English and a little Yiddish, having worked in a kosher deli in LA for almost ten years.
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April 26
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Cabin Fever
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Anyone who says, "It's harder to be alone in a crowd" has never really been isolated.
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April 19
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Timeless Dancers
by Carlos Aguila
...look not through the lens of your camera, but rather through the eyes of your soul.
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Ghost Town
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
The Centro is a ghost town; not all of it. But in many places it is abandoned.
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April 12
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Report from Mexico #1
by Duke Miller
Death is important to Mexico. It is heroic. It is sad. It is vital. Mexicans have turned it into sugar and cake.
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"Online Ramblings"
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
With this Corona Virus, haven't you imagined it all spinning out of control?
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April 5
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A Matter of Life and Death
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Mexico has taught me better how to live and with that how better to die.
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A Death in the Circle
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
With everything shut down and everyone shut up; with the world on hold and everybody holed up...
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March 29
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The Plague; I Will Be Home
by Duke Miller
I will wait until they line the streets of SMA with bodies and then I will walk outside.
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March 22
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SMA, NYC, COVID-19
by Joan Hall
It is strange to experience SMA on shut down. It contradicts the very nature of this town.
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Corona: The Mexican Response
by Prof. Martha Beatriz Ojeda Pacheco
Something muy chido (very cool) will emerge from all this earthly convulsion.
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Considering All the Threads
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
This explains why, though generally so selfish, we rally so nobly to help those who have suffered a natural disaster.
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March 15
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March 8
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Cat Food and the Color Blue
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Seeing other people's mistakes is easier and more fun than seeing our own.
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March 1
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February 23
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Howler Monkeys
by Duke Miller
The structure struggles to breathe as the green shades wrap around it like a boa constrictor.
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Hot and Cold Multiculturalism
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
After the horrors of two world wars the Europeans have lost confidence in Western culture.
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February 16
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February 2
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The Bells are Ringing?
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
The fact that the music you listen to was composed by white men, might make you a micro-racist and a micro-sexist.
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February 2
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What's Love Got to Do with It?
interview
Imagine considering rattlesnake teeth a male aphrodisiac, to make men virile.
CRUSH! Saturday, Feb. 15, art opening, singles cocktail party
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Slappy Dreams
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
The man slapping me is following a script. It is nothing personal.
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January 26
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Seasons of Memory
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
You can stand an ugly sight or sound much more easily than you can tolerate an ugly smell.
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January 19
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More Moaning About Mom
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Let me also suggest that you cannot love someone more than you love yourself.
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January 12
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Tango, the Original Animal
by Kathleen Millard
It isn't so much a dance done "with" a partner as much as it is against, through, or into your partner.
Tango Fest, Fri-Sun, Jan 17-19
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The Poet Paints - video
by Miguel Canseco
The visual poetry that long ago gave meaning to books and temples now returns.
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El Poeta Pinta - video
by Miguel Canseco
Algunos artistas como Miguel recreen este vínculo entre los ojos y el alma.
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Two Viruses, Two Cures
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Nothing can substitute for that original, spiritual connection with the community of life.
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January 5
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A Coney Island State of Mind
by Gaia Schilke
I was terrified to share my most personal work on stage
Book Reading/Performance, Sunday, January 12
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The Best and Worst of Times
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
We've been stealing from them for centuries. They can steal a little from us.
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December 29
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Christmas in San Miguel
by Gray Wolf
Holiday vendedores pop up like weeds on the sidewalk to sell the essentials of Christmas posadas.
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December / Diciembre 2019
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December 22
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Name Dropper
by Duke Miller
John Wayne once made my wife cry. I've never forgiven him for that.
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December 15
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December 8
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December 1
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Padre, Madre, Awesome
by Ezequiel Ruiz
Language is not mathematics, where we can make equations, where this equals that.
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Gratitude Works, 7 Ways
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
I could interrupt anyone in any conversation by interjecting a "Thank you."
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november / noviembre 2019
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november 24
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November 17
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The Cat That I Deserve
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
The universe may or may not give us what we want, but... it always gives us what we need.
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November 10
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Rice and Beans
by Duke Miller
Broken bones and scars are the story of politics and servitude and company stores.
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How Not to Advertise
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
They don't cut their own hair; why do they do their own publicity?
Vegan Fest - Today
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November 3
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What Time is It... Really?
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
If you don't like where the herd is going, then try to take it in another direction.
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October 27
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Revolution On The Walls
by Alberto Lenz
...these first murals have nothing or very little to do with the ideas of... national identity.
Tour: Muralism, Mexico City
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The Art of a Good Death
by EKR México Centro
This movement away from death phobia is referred to as Death Positive.
Day of the Dead, Dä'thä Over Dinner, Concert, Thurs. Oct 31
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In and Out of Focus
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
I've never been one to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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October 20
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Horse Whisperers for Leonardo
by Dale Braiman
...word has spread all the way to the healing horse whisperers in the U.S.
Event Saturday, October 26
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October 13
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Four Keys
by Andrew Osta
Toller would die from a heart attack in the room directly under his studio that very night...
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Meetings With Medicine Men
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
When you want to think outside of the box, but still be able to think, a microdose of LSD or Peyote can be a great ally.
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October 6
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Weaving a Pattern of Mastery
by Colette Moyra
...in the 60s here in San Miguel 33% of the population was involved in the textile business.
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Tejiendo un patrón de maestría
por Colette Moyra
...el Maestro ha enseñado por más de 30 años, convirtiéndose en parte importante de la historia en SMA...
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Trading Our Water for Gold
by Colette Moyra
The mining company wants to crush the stones of which the church is built to extract the gold in them.
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Cambiando nuestra agua por oro
por Colette Moyra
La compañía minera quiere destruir las piedras con las que está construida la iglesia para extraer el oro que contienen.
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September 29
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The Aikido Diary
by Colette Moyra
...I was assaulted on a couple of occasions and even once managed to escape an attempted kidnapping.
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El diario del Aikido
por Colette Moyra
Fui asaltada en un par de ocasiones e incluso una vez logré escapar de un intento de secuestro.
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september / septiembre 2019
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September 22
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Awakening Your Sensuality
by Sonali Deepika Nanayakkara
...we miss opportunities to connect to our purpose and to our passion...
Workshop, Saturday, Sept. 28
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September 15
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Malverde Days 3
by Duke Miller
the song ends in that spot where everything grows, changes, dies beneath the light of Malverde days
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12 Astrology Banners
San Miguel Sunday
The 12 Astrology Banners were originally created for the 2019 MyStudio-MiEstudio event...
Exhibit through September
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September 8
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Malverde Days 2
by Duke Miller
No breath for the blind child … only stones for roses, only mud for meat
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September 1
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Malverde Days 1
by Duke Miller
My first mystical, god-driven journey happened when I was a four-year-old
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Bob Dylan's Dream
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Early Sunday morning Bob Dylan came to me in a dream.
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August 25
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Art is the Heart of San Miguel
by Jessica Antonelli, Art Editor
My quest for publicity... now has spun itself into a dedicated art section.
San Miguel Sunday's New Art Section
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You Call This A Deathbed?
by Skip Hunter
I want to tell him something. Something important. Something worth waiting 11 years for.
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Spanish's Most Versatile Word
Word of the Week
Still at my uneducated level, on the streets, if you are just trying to make yourself understood, I have found no word more versatile...
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Bullies and the Abandoned Child
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
A bully doesn't feel strong... He constantly has to prove it, to others, but mostly to himself.
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August 18
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Working Without A Net
by Pam Walters
Not everyone is faced with the challenge to start over relying only on faith.
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A Little Controversy
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
...asking us, in a manner unbiased by political correctness, to put the facts on the table...
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August 11
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12 Astrology Banners
San Miguel Sunday
...full of colorful whimsical creatures and beings created by six different artists...
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August 4
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July 28
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Treasures of the Otomi Pueblo
by Glen Rogers
The Otomi women embellish their tortillas with designs using sacred imagery.
Exhibit though August 6
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July 21
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July 14
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July 7
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Noises in the Neighborhood
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
Someone tried to poison the dogs of the neighbor across the street, twice.
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June 30
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Poker Faces
by Ann Marie Jackson
The most successful expats... are those who can keep a poker face and refrain from shouting out their knee-jerk reactions...
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Women's Demons, the Feminine Shadow
by Azzah Manukova
"Our world will change with the wisdom of women breaking apart the mold of patriarchy.” -Dali Lama
The Negative Feminine - panel discussion, Friday, July 5
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Things are Different Today
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
The chief part of learning to love ourselves involves accepting our incapacity.
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June 23
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Looking You in the Eyes
by Pat Hall
"All you Americans and Canadians never make eye contact. We Mexicans always make eye contact. Why don't you look at us?"
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June 16
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Welcome to San Miguel Sunday
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
In the grand tradition of Sunday publishing we offer you something to read with your bagel or croissant.
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The Prostitute Archetype
by Carlos Chancellor
...she exposes our hypocrisies, insecurities and shortcomings, but also the road towards inner growth.
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Trump, Fascism and Hysteria
by Dr David, Editor / Publisher
When has there been a better time to be a woman, gay or a minority in the US?
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