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To: Brezlin who wrote (5652)	4/10/1998 3:34:00 AM
From: marcos	Respond to of 26850

Off topic - ch¡ngalo, tal y fulano el tema, es el fin de semana. I've met so many people from San Miguel de Allende, also from San Luis Potos¡, but have never been to SM and only drove through SLP a couple times. Spent time in Quer‚taro once and never will again -g-. There was a whole group of artistic types from the San Miguel area living near Todos Santos, BCS, a few years ago, and I talked a lot with one lady. Can't remember her name, nobody used it anyway, everybody called her T¡a something, she used to organize the Casa de Cultura and Tai Kwon Do lessons in the old Palacio de Gobierno for whole herds of six-year-olds in natty belted martial arts uniforms. Thoroughly likeable, all these SM people, and very talented. Around the Gringolandias like Cabo San Lucas and Huatulco <shudder> you will find that much of the art and the people connected with it come from San Miguel or have spent time there. Sad, but that's where the money is and even artists have to eat. My friend's wife in Chiapas was picked for an arts scholarship about twenty years ago, personally by Echeverr¡a (the Presidente at the time). There were several docens of them who all lived and studied and did art and volunteer work together in Coyoac n, and now she keeps in touch with some of them. At least half came from San Miguel or SLP or nearby. She has some extremely good small pieces of sculpture from them, and if you are considered a quality customer at their cantina, i.e. you pay your bill regularly, she will bring them out along with her own work. There is a story to each piece, and it is worth hearing. So I feel quite connected with San Miguel de Allende, and must go one time. It's a big world, you just can't go everywhere, at least you can't spend much time everywhere. And that's the way to get to know a place and its people, you have to relax and live a normal sort of eating/drinking/working/bullshitting everyday life. You can't do it in two or three weeks. We don't get much time in M‚xico lately - pardon me if the frustration shows -g- Somebody told me recently that there are 30,000 Canadians living between el Lago de Chapala and Guadalajara alone, they even have their own newspaper. Don't know if that's true, it sounds like a lot, but it's a beautiful area. It's like spring all year round, depending on which valley you're in, although it did snow this winter in Guadalajara for the first time since 1881. Cuernavaca is another nice area, especially for the scholarly inclined. But I'm pretty prejudiced in favor of northeastern Chiapas, with family there and all. We are looking for land there, not real actively, but we'll end up with some before too long. Some cows and horses and caoba trees, some ule maybe, and definitely a toronja tree among los rboles de frutas. Down south we grow a toronja that is closer in size to a basketball than a canteloupe, but about half the weight is in the peel, which is about an inch thick. Muy amargo - it'll pucker ya right up, the juice is often used to cut the local mataca¤a. Now there's a custom to avoid - stick to beer, you'll live longer, and be able to walk. ... Viva M‚xico! ... Felicidades a todos en el d¡a Viernes Santo .... salud .... macros