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Cold and rainy…again

March 14, 2010 | 7:05 pm

I don’t know what is up with this weather. We should be having 50°F and 60°F weather and it’s been consistently cold. Now, it’s not only cold it’s raining. The winter months are bad enough but when they last longer than they should it’s downright torturous. All that is keeping me going at this point is that we’ve got another trip to Mexico coming up. This will be our fourth? trip since my sister moved down there. We’ve spent some time in Tijuana, of course, at Hilary’s house and checking out our surroundings.

And the last time we were there we spent our time in Los Cabos.

Hilary and I did make it out to Phoenix for an immigration rally and march that happened over my birthday weekend. It was unbelievable! Thousands of people attended – all shapes, sizes, colors and creeds. Really amazing. Later that night at our hotel things got a little out of hand. Not with the marchers or anyone involved in the rally. Things got outta hand when we got sucked into the vortex of two cranky, old, rich drunk dudes and the one’s train conductor girlfriend. But that’s a story for another day. Lemme just say that old drunk golfers falling down are hilarious!

We leave again April 3rd to head back down to Baja California Sur. Can’t forget the Sur as that makes the Mexicans salty. This time we will be meeting Hilary in Mazatlan. From there we’ve got a cabin booked on the ferry to La Paz. After La Paz we head back to Los Cabos. I can almost feel it: family, good people, great food, sand, sun and tequila. It’s almost time to get my shorts and flip flops out!

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Addendum…

January 1, 2010 | 3:26 am

…to New Year…

Dude? Aren’t we all trying to get over? A better life? Hope for our children? Hope for ourselves?

I had two conversations, back to back, tonight that made me question humanity. One almost came to blows, the other just reinforced my ill will toward the US military. Long story short, I was going to Mexico for my 40th birthday. Sis and I were going to go somewhere warm to get away. After tonight’s experiences I am going to Tijuana. I will be spending my time working at Casa del Migrante. I will cook, pass out food, distribute clothing, minister to needs – whatever needs to be done to meet the needs of my fellow man/woman. Yes, I share a country with small minded, ignorant sons of bitches but I will do what I can to live a life that is moral and just and one in which I can look myself in the mirror and be okay. One that does not include the thought that it is okay to put “gun towers on the border in order to shoot anyone crossing”.

Killing is never okay. Killing is always wrong. I will always witness. I will never back down.

Light and love,

Holly

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