Hello from Guadalajara Mexico..I’m down here for some business meetings for the next couple of days. It’s been a lonnnnnng day. I found it was much cheaper to fly here out of montreal than it was to fly out of Burlington. I figured it woul d take me an hour and a half to get to Trudeau airport.. But it took nearly twice that due to 15 north being closed around Montreal. Luckily wonderful Diane convinced me to leave lots of extra time to make my flight.. So I di.. But that meant waking before 5 am.
I spent the entire day on a plane.. But it’s basically north south.. So no jet lag.. It was Ctually a great time to get things done. Finished my talk, worked on a study I’m doing (and enjoying) .. And Petty much cleared my in box.. Which is a huge feat !
I got to GDL at around 6 .. My friend Selene and her daughter marinando met me at the airport and dropped me at my hotel. I’ve had the whole evening to myself and used it pretty well on work. I’m going to have plenty of socializing the next couple of days.. So another several hours of work in a small clean,well lit and air conditioned space was a treat . Here’s the view from the room

Also a treat was the very cool room service dinner I just finished,l I rarely eat out when I’m Lone.l I prefer to by food and cook it in a room (ever cooked a grilled cheese with an iron ? I haven’t yet.. But going to try) tonight, though, I splurged and ordered traditional jalisco Specialties.. I had grilled paella cheese with green tomato sauce and worm seeds (huh ?) and pumpkin flower, corn land poblano soup.. It came with corn tortillas, guacamole and beans. All vegetarian and all delicious

Since I don’t have anything rally exciting here.. Let me tell you two interesting blog relate stories that have occurred in the last week. Both are kind of bittersweet

In the first .. While Diane, gabe, max and I were hiking a week and a half back, we spent a night at Taylor lodge. I noted in my blog that the lodge was dedicated to Debo Laplante , an old friend of ours that used to play soccer with Diane . Debo died in 2007. A few days after I posted that. I got a note from Debos sister J,. She’d just been randomly googling her sisters same day I wrote my post. She was happy to hear we were thinking of her sister. There’s more here though.. Just last night Diane and I were at our friend Dana’s going away celebration and we began talking to a guy R who we quickly recognized as Diane and Debos soccer coach from the early 1980’s. He was actually dating debo when she died…and was glad to hear about our recent resonance with Debos memory

The other story also has a sad twist. A woman L, who’s a songwriter wrote to tell me that a friend of here’s had recently died suddenly. She was looking for a recording of a song she’d written called “we do not die’. She found my blog because my friend Sybil, had sent me that song after Sam died. Sybil had gotten it when her boyfriend Darius died. Darius was a good friend of lynda’s

It’s a small world and our spirits keep swirling around in it..it seems

Ok.. Gotta sleep off those worm seeds
Nite all, nite Sam
-me

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