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.
A couple of years in San Sebastian Etla and now, just down the road in San Pablo Etla. Life is good.

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You can find my music on Jango (World & latin - Worldbeat) and at iTunes and most online stores.
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Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo
The view from Corazon del Pueblo

The hereafter re me

My photo
Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Musician, photographer, videographer, reporter, ex-officio teacher, now attempting to be a world traveler

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

In the belly of the beast....

Well, maybe not the belly, but close.  I'm currently in Boston where it's beginning to be a bit weird. Lots of proactive decisions being made, like closing schools and lots of cancellations.  Many of the cases here are linked to a recent Biogen conference and the numbers go up every day. I'm not sure how seriously people are taking it, but they cancelled the St. Patrick's Day parade and the Marathon is waiting to see what happens. They are doing better at the state and local level than the Feds, where COVID meetings are now classified... you can't make this stuff up.
A few observations on how hard it is to avoid contact.  For me, it's shopping carts and going to the library where thousands of people handle thousands of books, CD's DVD's etc.  Of course, my favorite, as a man of international intrigue, is going through customs now requires you to scan your fingerprints after hundreds of others have used the same machine... maybe it's better now, but given how things are going....
Meanwhile, it was almost 80 a couple of days ago and it sure feels like Spring.

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