Weekly Routines

Every saturday we visit the organic market in the "Parque La Arboleda". It's an outdoor market with local vendors who just about anything organic. Clothes spun with organic cotton, baskets made from multi-colored straw, cheeses, bread, vegitables, nutsan grains, all organic. And as it seems to be in all places around the world there are vendors selling incense, crystals, and herb potions.

Every Saturday we walk along the open vendor displays buying our vegitables for the week. Gabriella will be jumping and running in the park talking to the other kids. Jordan is walking silently with his hands in his pockets quietly taking it all in. Christi is looming forward to the ceviche in one of the last posts and I am walling with all the bags trying not to break the basket of eggs as I wonder if Gabriella and Jordan will remember this time like I remember my weekly routines when I was a child.







-- Posted while on the move

Reflections on writting my biography

Writting my biography has to be one of the most rewarding activities I've embarked on. I remember that I had to write one as a student in the university as a homework assignment. I remember thinking how boring my life was and that there mut be people much more interesting than me sitting in the room. But now, sitting in a Peruvian Taxi speeding down Javier Prado to my lunch appointment in Lima off the Pacific coast, I think the smallest details of how I learned how to ride a bike with my Dad on Aberdeen Proving grounds is interesting. In fact I believe that we all have wonderful and interesting stories but the problem is that we all underestimate their importance.

With every story I've written I remember more and in greater detail. It's like peeling an onion. Each layer is smaller and more consice full of color, sights and sound. I wonder what the final product will be when I complete writting my memoirs/biography. Will I remember everything? Will the body of work be as interesting to others as it is to me?

....more to come




-- Posted while on the movei