Oaxaca-The Year After: La Güerita

The here and now... and what and why

Complacency is a trap. At least that’s what I was thinking when I up and left the comfort of a Yankee prep school gig, where I taught music, amongst other things, for 28 years. There was also that life long career as a composer, musician and artist.

First, it was a year in St. Thomas, USVI, working as a reporter and shooting photography and then, a year in San Agustin Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Time passed.
More time passed and a year back in the Athens of America followed by a hasty return to Oaxaca where it is all happening.
This time in San Sebastian Etla just down the road from San Agustin.

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

La Güerita

On my walk down to see the Cinco Señores construction site - which is still in flux. It might have tunnels. It might have bridges. Who knows, but the work continues - "empuje debemos," "dig we must." No matter what, it was such a crazy intersection, maybe the plans to make it better will actually work. I think Oaxaca, in general, does a good job on these projects. People always squawk about change. I will miss the 8-lane into 3 lanes race and the buses turning left from any lane they wanted, but there are plenty of exciting other places to experience these sort of things.

But I digress.... on my walk down Insurgentes, I passed La Güerita in the Merced market and thought I would pop in and get an empanada.