Reaching Out

Hello to all,
time to reach out again….. it has been since August that we last posted to this blog page.
More recently we have posted in person to Port Townsend, Thailand to visit my father, and South Dakota to visit my mother and brother Zak.

Last August we decided to take our friends Rachel and Eric up on their offer to house sit their house 10 miles to the north of Oaxaca city near a little town called Etla.
We had been on the move for 8 months and decided that opportunity needed a moment to catch up with us as we were moving a bit “too fast for the camera.”

Earlier in the year, we had spent 6 weeks with my dad and his family in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This was the longest time spent with my father since 1975. From there we flew to Mexico to start our quest for our Fortune…….. Our first priority was to learn Spanish, and we signed up for 6 weeks of language classes in a wonderful little place called Tepoztlan.
Along with language school, we spent good time with old friends, most of them living at a community called Huehue Coyotl (old old coyote).
And we house sat in the lovely and incredible house of our friend Bea.

From there, our journey took us to Michoacan to meet a wonderful batch of generous and loving folks. The first evening we arrived, we were taken in by Terry and Laura, no questions asked. There we stayed three nights, then moved on to stay with Jenny and Sergio in Yotatiro. There we potted fig trees bound for the Huichols and got to know the lay of the land near Erongaricuaro.





Then on to Oaxaca for 3 weeks, western Massachusetts, Boston and NYC and then back to Oaxaca in August for our housesit.

In short, what I’ve found during our quietness in Etla was reflection. As we looked for working opportunities and got to know our new community, we had lots of time to just be. Months ahead, we would look with not a single obligation nor even a lunch date.
We had silent evenings on end, with just the sound of crickets and the site of lightning bugs (which always fascinate me).
Sooooo, it is inside I went. A wonderful and still journey ……..

I realized that within my fascination of the human experience, I come out easily towards others to learn of their journeys, trials and lessons. When I see a friend, I want to know what is happening on the inside and if there is a way I can help to make their life better or richer.
At times, I have given too much of myself, either in physical work or just devoting too many ideas or thoughts.

Having been a fairly high profile human being, I have found so many incredible people to appreciate and have enjoyed the appreciation shown to me.
So in this time when it was mainly just Kirsten and I, there was much space to go farther and farther inside.

What a perfect time for it too……. recently coming out of the door of raising kids. What a great time to reinvent or perhaps more appropriately said, re-investigate just who it is floating down this big old river.
If there is a place for a second vision quest, this may well be it.



So here we are... for all practical purposes, we call this home. This is the physical space we plan to inhabit indefinitely. We aren’t cutting ties with our past, we are merely stretching the range of our possibilities to find more deeply what makes us, us.

So keep posted for more updates......... one from Kirsten will be coming befroe too long.

with besos y abrozos,

Joshua