Postcards From San Miguel de Allende: Norman Has Left the Casa

Monday, August 11, 2008

Norman Has Left the Casa

At 3:30AM this morning, just before the bells began to ring and the roosters began to crow, Norm and our friends, Margo & Roger, left the casa. The boys are pretty much on the mend from their bout with 'tourista' which many of you (mistakenly) took for 'too much tequila.' They left smiling and should make it back to Iowa this evening just about the time my friends, Heather, Linda & Kevin Ross will be arriving in San Miguel. I'm sitting here alone in mi casa sipping my orange juice and reveling in the quiet before I tromp off to the market for flowers to welcome my friends. For as you may know, "Just living isn't enough, One must also have freedom, sunshine, and a little flower. " Abrazos y besos from San Miguel!

3 comments:

Martha said...: sounds wonderful. weather is cooler today which is good. Martha; August 11, 2008 at 3:22 PM
CC said...: So have you written your butterfly book yet? :)
Enjoy your new friends! I'm really glad to hear about the day care! What angels there are in the world!
Brazos y besos!
CC; August 11, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Tammy Nicks said...: Nancy,
Your blog is wonderful it is almost like we are there with you. I love the photo's. Especially the one of a the children sitting on the street...I was wondering if you will be painting a "Butterfly Rocking Chair" anytime soon?? The chairs are beautiful..I am glad to hear that you have friends coming to stay and enjoy San Miguel with you..
Lot's of Love
Tammy; August 12, 2008 at 1:02 PM

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Oh the Places You Will Go !

Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any
direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy
who’ll decide where to go.
You’ll look up and down streets.
Look ‘em over with care.
About some you will say,
“I don’t choose to go there.”
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and your shoes full of feet,
you’re too smart to go down
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you’ll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
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It's opener there
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Out there things can happen
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to people as brainy
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And when things start to happen,
don’t worry. Don’t stew.
Just go right along.
You’ll start happening too.....

Oh the Places You Will Go! ~ Doctor Suess

Between Going and Staying by Octavio Paz

Between going and staying the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.

The circular afternoon is now a bay
where the world in stillness rocks.

All is visible and all elusive,
all is near and can't be touched.

Paper, book, pencil, glass, rest
in the shade of their names.

Time throbbing in my temples repeats
the same unchanging syllable of blood.

The light turns the indifferent wall
into a ghostly theater of reflections.

I find myself in the middle of an eye,
watching myself in its blank stare.

The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause.