getting ready to leave
Packing, repacking, culling, listing, a whirlwind of activity between serious naps. In a fabric store today, looking for bobbins for my new sewing machine, I heard a machine running evenly. When I looked, there was nobody there: a 4-figure programmable embroidery machine doing its thing, unattended. A micro-factory for every home? The embroidery was perfect and precise, as only a (digital) machine can do. Is this not the predictable outcome of a society far removed from hand-made art and craft: [...]
a new life for me
So now, to Mexico. After months of online research, books, contacting people who have lived there for a while, and my ongoing self-examination about what I really need to live, I chose to explore the Lake Chapala area. My first visit this month confirmed that this place felt right, it’s beautiful, peaceful, affordable – and so I rented a house in Ajijic in the state of Jalisco, central highlands.
Some people have plunked down their money on their 3rd day there [...]