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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For additional photography please visit my flickr page.
You can find my music on Jango (World & latin - Worldbeat) and at iTunes and most online stores.
¡Soy consciente de todas las tradiciones del Internet!
If you are coming to Oaxaca, please contact me for tours or advice.

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

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Gracias, pero no - No Daylight Savings!

Mexican Indians, Teachers Oppose Time Change

OAXACA, Mexico – Tens of thousands of Indians in the southern state of Oaxaca who orient their lives around the sun have decided not to move their clocks forward one hour for daylight savings time, which went into effect on Sunday in Mexico.

Indians in 418 Oaxaca municipalities who live according to their own “uses and customs” have maintained this position for the past 14 years, saying the time change is imposed on them without their consent and brings them no benefits, different indigenous spokespersons told Efe on Tuesday.

Some 3.8 million people live in Oaxaca’s 570 municipalities, 70 percent of whom are Indians belonging to 16 ethnic groups.

“We use God’s time here, not the government’s,” one Indian in the Oaxaca town of Magdalena Jaltepec, part of the Mixtec region, said when asked why his people refuse to move their clocks forward like the rest of the country.

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