Meditation on Easter customs
What do colored eggs, jelly beans, marshmallow chicks and a gift-bearing cotton tail have to do with Easter? Well, as far as popular customs in Mexico go, nothing at all.
What do colored eggs, jelly beans, marshmallow chicks and a gift-bearing cotton tail have to do with Easter? Well, as far as popular customs in Mexico go, nothing at all.
Joni Mitchell’s catchy tune keeps running through my head:
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot, with a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot.
I just returned from a trip to Playa del Carmen. It was a family event and took place over a week at an “all-inclusive” resort, where you never have to leave the premises or your room, or even your bed, for 24 hours a day.
Paleontologists are just now reporting on what we may have inherited from the Neanderthals.
Semana Santa has passed and it is now a good time to remember many of the Bible’s great thoughts and words to live by – quotes that everybody has been repeating for centuries as good Christian advice and thigh tattoos.
The majestic monarch butterflies know instinctively when it’s time to come down to Mexico. Environmental clues include frostbitten eyeballs, runny proboscis and hailstone leg mutilations. All these signs say: Pack up some protein bars and head south for the winter.
The majestic monarch butterflies know instinctively when it’s time to come down to Mexico. Environmental clues include frostbitten eyeballs, runny proboscis and hailstone leg mutilations. All these signs say: Pack up some protein bars and head south for the winter.