#204 / 2011 June Oaxaca

TEN MORE DAYS

#204

June 18

I hope to make it to my new home in Albuquerque by the first of July. Fate swept me up in it´s wide arms again and I am heading to a new life, I think I am ready.

Jeffrey Grauer gave me the best gift I could have for now. Check out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM5Acisx1k8

It is a great little interview with Beatlick Joe back in 2003. We were in Connecticut visiting Jeffrey before we went to New York City for the People´s Poetry Gathering.

Joe looks so fabulous, he is so plump and healthy. I can´t tell you how much good it did my heart to see him again so whole and healthy. It is truly remarkable. Now I can think of that video when I think of Joe, his plump arms and face. I hope you visit that site.

I am what I am, about ten pounds heavier I fear, but at least reconciled to my existence. I am getting more used to not having Joe. It is five months now. That really is a long time. I´m crying now thinking of Joe and had a spiritual healing session this week that unleashed a flood of tears, but all in all, I am so much stronger. 

Plane fares have gone up so much I am going to take the bus back. I think of all the people who tried to talk me out of coming to Mexico, and I hate to think that I would have missed this experience and finding so many good new friends here. I am already planning how I will incorporate Oaxaca into my life now, I want to visit every year.

So I am expecting the bus trip to be just as anti-climatic as my time here as far as any danger goes. Things have been really calm since the teachers left the streets. I will pass along my n. I am so excited about Joe's video on youTube and hope you will all watch it. 

Love to all, Pamela