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On the home ...

Home is a state of mind continued or a feeling that allows us to experience feelings do not necessarily manifested in the outside world wonder, vision, peace, liberation of the concerns, requirements, the constant chatter. All these treasures of the home must be stored in the psyche for later use in the world above.
The home is the pristine instinctive running as smoothly as a shaft that slides over the greased bearing, where all the sounds sound good, light, smells nice and reassuring to us rather than alarmed. The way that time goes around does not matter. The essential thing is anything to revitalize the balance. This is home.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, "Women Who Run with the Wolves'

Totonicapan The house is fantastic and friendly as the owner. I've been a couple of months enjoying the light of this home. It is also a privilege to be surrounded by all this life of the forest that attracts me so much, with their constant singing. But after assessing the available options opens a new path. I moved to Catemaco, home of John and Jessie, two great Mexican committed to mother earth and its roots. A new change to a different experience. I'll be in town, near the center, less isolated than in Totonicapan and less spending in general. Monthly income Catemaco house costs me like going to the movies one day in Barcelona with popcorn and a coke. And that is important in my situation, I will travel more often throughout the country. But I still have a couple of weeks to enjoy this house next to the jungle and his companions. Yesterday was a big wild cat in the front door, unbelievable, they also say "meow" ... I love visiting the animals in the jungle. While meeting with nauyaca was not so pleasant, is a snake that bites you if you have real problems, usually all I find it surprising and striking. This is the part you miss when you live in the village. But you have to move! If you get too time in one place then it costs more to raise the anchor ...

Today I will tell a beautiful story that a local told me about "nightjars" that they're birds of a neutral color that you see in the hollows of the roads during night, standing there, not take flight until they almost pass over the car, seems to expect something. It turns out that it seems once these birds, "nightjars" wore the feathers of the peacock, with its beautiful colors and elegant pose. And one day the peacocks, which were gray and his audience, had to go to a carnival and since they had nothing to wear them borrowed plumage to nightjars assuring them that after the party it back. But never did, the peacocks are so proud they were with the beautiful plumage of the nightjars and is the dress even today. Nightjars poor run every night to the trails and roads to wait for them to recover. And that's why you always find them on the road every night.

November 24 and still go in flip flops and short sleeves. When a cold front comes only takes a couple of days and then the sun comes out again to get to 29 degrees. I find it unusual for this time of year. But it's great I save energy, both physical and emotional and physical. In Spain she would be with the heating cap and a pile of clothes. Might have to buy some new winter shoes because I had were already wrecked. And this is great to go hiking, walk three hours through the jungle and end up giving you a bath in a puddle or pond hidden. Start

changes like this ....

There is a ladder.
The ladder is always there innocently

Hanging Around the side of the schooner ... ...
Descending
Vine to explore the wreck ...
I came to see the damage that has been
And the treasures that have survived ...

Adrienne Rich "The dive in the wreck"

To be continued ...

Silver Nurses Belt Buckle

Christmas Preparing Action Plan: Seasonal Sweets




The teachers of my kids organized the annual festival of the fruit, the theme: Seasonal fruits. For the party sought the help of parents, who were responsible for preparing desserts with seasonal fruits.
We had it hard, the pastries are not giving us very well, but like we say to Anderson, it is for everyone, so we will strive to improve ourselves.
We made a plan of action to take our desserts to school. First we consider what do we know?: Our goal was to get a dessert to participate in school activities had to be fruits, one at home knew how to make pastries, as important is that children involved and for that we had to eliminate the dangers of the kitchen (oven, knives ...) etc.
We organize: Mom seek a prescription online, buy the ingredients, all participate in the preparation, selection of materials and of course in the development.
Internet is a wonderful instrument of information we provided two ideas of fruit dipped in chocolate fondant and Santa Claus hats. Both proposals were presented to children who decided to prepare the two.
The option to prepare the two was also the most practical as it might raise some difficulties and was very helpful to have more than one alternative. On the other hand, buying ingredients could only make it a bit before starting to cook. Mom promised to buy paper patterns to present our sweets.
was time and did the first problem: there were no strawberries in the shops and supermarkets so we could not prepare the "Santa Claus hats, but if we had all the ingredients to make the alternative.
Bought all the ingredients, we prepare to start the activity:
1) Everybody got their mandilón
2) The children named the necessary equipment: plates, trays for chocolate, pot, stirring tool, knife .. ., all the ingredients: we would use pears and tangerines, chocolate, water (for water bath), syrup, ... and other tools to finish the job: paper cups for presentation, sticks, tupperware and of course the steps to ensure that children reach workspaces.
3) organize the space zones: the table to peel the fruit and then bathe in chocolate, the kitchen area to make chocolate and bags for collecting area.
4) We distributed tasks: Small polvorón and Anderson placed the water and container for the chocolate, mom lit the fire and will remove the chocolate. Anderson and her sister at the table peeling mandarins, Mom helps to peel the pears. Children cut pear pieces with a plastic knife and then the chopped tangerine peel into segments and will take the little threads. Every child should get at least 26 branches to distribute to their classmates and teacher.
5) When the chocolate was on the point, Mom pulled out the fire, put out the kitchen and put it on the table, each child with a stick punctured the fruit and was bathing halfway into chocolate and then placed in paper template. We did about 28 pieces per child to be placed in a dish and allowed to cool.
6) Each child had a tupperware and then carefully place all its sweet to take to school.
8) had to leave everything as possible so mom picked up (by question time had school the next day) will end up cleaning the kitchen
7) We did an assessment of the activity.
tell you that we had a very good, my daughter was very nervous I wanted to do 50 things at once and had to insist that he not leave the planning it was important to keep order and fun and not stress out or get nervous because it was the other collaborative work where all we participated equally. Ander perfect, standing on his step more slowly peeled tangerine her sister (the ratio of 2 to 1) but by contrast when get the wires was thorough, thoroughly clean each segment. The girl was more hack, pulled the strings but left a lot fatter. There were some differences when bathing the fruit in the chocolate, knowing that it only covered half a matter of aesthetics, bathed rather little fruit. He instead was more generous and thoroughly wet.
When choosing the roles of mold had a problem, the colored papers were a little big, but my daughter liked most and chose to use being less showy presentation. Instead, it was clear Ander whites were smaller and more fruit filling mold, so he put almost all in white mold. Ander
A good chef as he liked to go testing it all, she was to accelerate that "Uf are so many children and the teacher."
At the end of all, we stopped a few seconds to check the activity: we liked?, What was it we liked?, "We meet objectives?, How the experience of working in a team? What prefereis work together or alone?, Things to be improved and new proposals.
RESULTS: Experience loved it, have fun and meet the target. It's more fun working together than alone, what he liked to Mom: "working together" to the small polvorón "choose color molds" and Anderson "put the fruit in the chocolate." About things to improve for Ander "NO" (no) for the baby and mother do a weekend and with more time, my daughter said that "you can not cook as fast because you have to go to bed early." When asked for new proposals, "Preparing for Father Christmas hats for Christmas dinner and a weekend to make a pizza and a dessert. Mom suggested to organize this activity for the bridge of the constitution, all agree.
A nine and ten at night the children were in bed asleep and sweets in the fridge.
This weekend, luckily for all mom did not have to go to school, so we all share a bit of collecting and organizing the house and then proposed to the children if I helped prepare a "scrambled mushrooms" Anderson is a genius beating eggs.
Saturday also took the opportunity to make the odd year, with Anderson are working the human figure, he likes to portray to the people around you and yourself. We are at the border between the doodle and the schematic for the emergence of intentionality, and begins to develop what is called graphic vocabulary, consisting of a series of schemes with a proxy. We use plastic
expressions to draw letters, Ander fully understands the concept of reading and sense of letters, more in another post I got a story written only with vowels, to Anderson loves to read. Very well draw the letters, with a weak stroke, but is able to copy "Anderson." To avoid future complications, learning to perform the case.
What you like is drawn to himself and his sister. Each time you finish a task wants to show us all feel proud.
This week in class compartment has great and it shows who wants to learn.
prize Sunday as we take them to the cinema to see "Beauty and the Beast", I had a great time. When the dress was beautiful gala, Anderson stood on his chair and shouted: "Beautiful, Guapa "(often leading man).
way to school today, a dad asked do you like the movie? Answer: Yes, - the fair was very pretty," - "beautiful, beautiful" - How did the beast ? - "rrrr, lion." Then he pointed to the sky and said to dad: "there Iris" (rainbow there.)
Every day we improve more with the language now says "thank you" always, when going down the street greets everyone: "hello how are you?, Even talking on the phone. On Sunday we called the grandparents and went Ander, first thing he did was ask her grandmother for his Superabuela "grandfather Pepe", then told him: "What you? "and when asked he replied," well "and just put the grandfather yells:" Train, Train "(the grandparents if they do come by train).
I do not know how to explain it, but these days is to eat it, participatory, talkative, wanting to do things, emotional .... God, that last stage.
This week I talk about social differences and I will take a book "where children nap" that has hanged Paloma in his blog http://bebetiopia.blogspot.com/
I also take to make a link to the smile of Arthur http://www.lasonrisadearturo.com/2010/11/carta-abierta-al-presidente- de-la-xunta.html think Esther expresses
well what are the problems of education in this letter to the President of the Xunta.
I hang up, the self-portrait photos and the picture he drew of her sister Ander.

What Dose The Sock Do When Your Masterbat

First of all I would do a paragraph on the much debated issue of education. This week Paul was teaching adults. Were workers after a work day attending a training of five hours. It's funny how one is raised automatically when a training of this type, the first day trying to do with the students themselves a assessment of the level, communicate what they learn and objectives, students will also inform the teacher of their expectations before the training. The class becomes an interactive process where both parties give and receive.
The student teacher to a higher wean study, in an environment (the classroom) that is not its own, you have to convert the class into something enjoyable and participatory. Any teacher who works with adults will automatically be presentations from the use of fun, visually stunning, uses many videos to reinforce explained, encourages collaborative work among students, the debate, each theoretical part takes practice, creates group dynamics to integrate to all students. My question is always the same why education for children remains as obsolete, back to the new technologies?. We still use the same model when we thought the Internet was the ravings of someone. I do not understand.

students tell you that Paul was given a beautiful piece of craftsmanship, a cow Sargadelos (I hang a picture).

On Saturday I also started my classes as a student I'm trying to expand my study of "innovation, research and development" to me is a sacrifice to have to get up the only day I can sleep for school from 9.00 to 14.00, not being with children all morning and not participate in the cooperative work of household tasks morning, but as a professional I can not stay on the blackboard and chalk. On the way to school I was thinking "five hours uf!" But I had a great time, many dynamic numerous videos of real life and practical knowledge afinzar .... When I realized the class was over. Moreover

Anderson will tell you that reassuring and classes very well, speaks a lot more and every time I learn something gets so excited that fills us all kisses. Wants to learn what is most important.

The title of this post is "values" because this week was the week of an expected outcome, my uncle has died eight months after fighting against a metastatic lung cancer. Do not want to tell the sad part because all but the experience you can imagine my uncle has made me a lot. In 2011 celebrated 50 years married with one child who discovered that most have a very aggressive degenerative disease that gradually it is limiting your life. The situation in that house was especially hard when my uncle got sick. No you can not imagine that with so great pain that she had clung to a subhuman force to life, would not leave his wife alone. He fought until the last second, but not only, all his siblings, his brothers / as, his nephews as they fought with him. Visually was shocking to see how his brothers and brothers of a mean age of 75 years fighting to see who would stay that night at his side. Perhaps because my father (his brother) and I'm more emotionally attached, I was struck by the image of him with his arm can not move from a fall, sitting beside her sleeping around a grandfather of 75.

I was reminded of when I was a teenager and was admitted to the hospital one of my uncles, just before entering his room I came across a doctor and a nurse, the doctor told the nurse: But they're here all the brothers again?, nurse replied, "this family always jump all the controls," to which he replied the doctor, "are like a family of gypsies." Clearly concerned that where a van is all and it is impossible to separate them.

The day of the funeral I realized how bloody it may be the target, as his only son tried to give her one last kiss to her father with a brutal effort to move with physical pain but still more heartache, as their mother accepted her fate and clung to his life and that of his son. But all stories have a beautiful part of solidarity and affection when all the brothers / my aunt as they organize to go to visit him, take things, help to care for your child and especially not leave them alone.

Sometimes I think we are losing the younger generation these values \u200b\u200bof cooperation, solidarity, love, crazy lifestyle that we lead and effort to be competitive we are wasting the most important. That big lesson of love they give us the greatest, never repay my parents the example of life so great that I get each day, hopefully in the future my children say the same of us.

This Christmas if possible I want to share more than ever with mine.

Winn Dixie W2 For 2010

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I do not know if it happens to everyone, but lately the weeks seem to sigh when confuses me because it's Sunday, day to organize for the next week.

This past week Ander seems more relaxed, not so anxious. On Tuesday I left ballet for a while, and I was surprised to see how well he did, he is getting the hang. It certainly had its moments of forgetfulness because he goes crazy the stereo, each day I have more clear that the next year of school activity is to music.

On leaving school the teachers asked what about in class and I always respond that "saving the oversight, Anderson is doing the same as others." At that time I saw my daughter and realized that he never asked for it, I'm so used to being wrong is very "bueniña" that we sometimes forget to give your prize. Susan quickly my mistake and handed I said, "Okay, I'm going to say you do not know your daughter." My little polvorón classes left happy.

On Tuesday we dance Galician Ander loves. Their teachers say they also behaved better than last week and the problem with it is still leaking into the area of \u200b\u200bmusical instruments, loves the tambourine, drum and bagpipes. The teacher told us something that caught our attention because the child is usually very independent but in class looking for his sister and wants to be her dance partner.

Each day the brothers are closer together, play together a lot and are looking for. All activities teachers agree that my child exercises older sister, always mindful of her brother.

weekend, took the opportunity to work a little, did some card and work with material prepared by their teacher on exercises in logic and literacy course. Then take the opportunity to work with the computer, love, play a vocal fish, to find the letters of a word on the keyboard of the computer ,.... The good news is that the tasks are not so routine and boring.

other hand we have purchased an Anderson story to read it alone, is the publisher LaGalera and is a collection where every book uses more letters, is old and his father learned to read with her. We have also created

the first pocket photo book for children to play anywhere, has size DNI.

Well I hang pictures of professional material, the book publisher LaGalera and our first book DNI.

Welcome Address Speeches

It's November!

soul needs are governed by Coatlicue, the Aztec goddess of female self-sufficiency gives birth in a squatting position and firmly set on foot. She teaches what is the life of the lonely woman. Is the maker of children, ie a potential new life, but is also the mother of Death who takes on her lap skulls that sound like bells of a snake, they are skulls and snake, as the bells of the skulls also sounds like rain, common resonance attract rain upon the earth. She is the protector of all those lonely women whose magic and whose thoughts and ideas are so powerful they have to live apart from who knows where for not too much to dazzle the villagers. Coatlicue is the special protector of the stranger.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, "Women Who Run with the Wolves'

Coatlicue chairs the altar these days have prepared our friends in the jungle. Surrounded by flowers are placed photographs of which are no longer of which have not been forgotten. It can not lacking food, water, salt, and the wonderful smell of copal.

Rituals are one of the means used by humans to put their lives in perspective, evoke the shadows and the ghosts of the lives of people, sort and subside. The Day of the Dead is based on the so-called rite of offering, the altar is erected in honor of the deceased. The offerings are tributes, memorials and expressions of deep regard for the loved ones who are no longer on this earth.

has been an honor to participate for the first time in this ritual. Painful in the sense to remember past losses while healing in the sense of inner cleanliness. Say goodbye to love those things from our gut that are no longer valid, let die certain aspects of the past that no longer help in the growth and pray that life take its course in harmony, knowing, more than ever, that death is always present and it is she who gives way to new life ...

Front candlelit altar we treated to a hot chocolate, a rich and tasty tamales and, of course, the famous sweet "Bread of the Dead while these were talking about the life they had shared with those who have been missing.

Already a few days that people are prepared for this event. From the weekend and had a crowd at the cemetery cleaning and preparing the graves. On Monday morning you're all set to spend the night with their dead with food, drink and prayers. Any other day of the year would be mad at anyone who is devoted to drink tequila by a grave as he recalls old ways with the dead!. It is curious to see the road leading to the cemetery like a fair, full of stalls where they sell flowers, food, beverages and even recreational areas are for children. All full of contrasting colors and smells. Of course themselves also are curious cemeteries, the graves are not arranged in any particular order, they are all different shapes, sizes and colors and seem positioned so totally random. All tablets have a particular look and different, are of various materials, including stone there that are stacked or pure land. And no tone "gray" abound oranges, sky blue, yellow, green and red.

is a meeting involving all members of the family, from the Young and old, who probably are the ones who tell the stories of their ancestors to children. In this way knowledge is retained on one's ancestors can always help to understand more how our interior. The ties of blood and people who have surrounded us since our earliest childhood shape of the map of our psyche.

is a look back on not missing the moments of sadness and reflection but which is also full of joy, love, sharing and respect.

And it's November ... A year ago or even imagined be here at this time. It was hard to leave everything and start again. My home, my family, my stuff ... much is free from attachments! There are moments in which I overcome with longing, yet never forget the feeling of apathy that came over me the last few months before deciding to move out. I try not to let it worry me too much uncertainty and enjoy these moments of quiet in this small corner of the world. The feeling of freedom outweighs the fears for now. try to learn to change their habits, thoughts and even language, because although here also speak English, the words or phrases are sometimes otherwise. If you go to a store to buy a chicken ranch (pollastre of payes, pitu caleya or chicken farm) you must specify that you want to "down" and clean because if you can not get to give you a chicken alive and kicking ... and is not one to kill and pluck chickens yet! I laugh to imagine the face that would put some of my former clients if they deliver a live specimen ... would be shot.

I still feel I'm in a period of adaptation. All I can I avoid comparisons with my previous life, it is easy to judge if you do not pay attention. I try to stay in monitoring and maintaining awareness and presence as long as possible to learn to move to the beat of this land. I found a good distraction from the fishing, I find it relaxing. Although the issue of fishing here can be quite amazing ... this afternoon when I thought I had caught a huge fish because I noticed a heavy weight to pull on the rod, is that what came out of the water with the ball of dough at the mouth was a turtle! It seems that like maize (corn dough used in the bait, worms stringing it is not mine) Poor ... luckily he was not hooked the hook and could free herself and go out feet into the water again . It is gratifying to end the day with a few minnows for dinner ...

To be continued ...