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I came home with a bracelet. I ate my amaranth balls before I could get them home. And we brought dehydrated banana/guava treats and a lemon-wild anise beverage to sell. Tracy made tamales wrapped in a leaf she harvested out of our back yard. The filling was made from some mushrooms her gardener brought us, and we dehydrated a couple weeks ago. Awesome! With what we earned, we had enough to buy a couple packages of bees-wax candles, some nopal/corn tortillas, and some choyotes. Tracy also found a home for some tomato plants that needed a little love, and someone to appreciate them while we’re in the states.

A local distributor of Nopal Cactus products came to share his products with us. Turns out, he’s also an expert on the Mexican calendar, so he gave us a lecture on how that works. He sells the calendars, along with instructions on how to use them.

Children arriving with a basket of things to sell or trade. Tiangis happens on the Kalpulli every other Thursday (or so). An event we all look forward to. Here come the squash blossoms, the choyote, and home-made yoghurt.

Tracy is braver than me. I don’t like these guys, but have to admit that this one is pretty magnificent to look at.

There among the cucumber cubes, you can see the wild precursors to the cucumber. If you look closely. When I saw my first one, I thought it was a reptile egg. So cute!!!

Six kids at 7-9 buckets apiece. Let’s see, that’s 5 pesos apiece. That’s mucho dinero!

Last Sunday, Tracy put out the message, to the youngsters of the Kalpulli, that she would pay 5 pesos for each bucket of grass clippings the children brought. We need clippings to mulch the garden, and also to cover the compost (Tracy also advertises as a local dump site for organic kitchen waste).

Tracy made lunch today out of what she had in her garden. Can you see the blossoms? The orange ones are Aloe Vera blossoms, which are abundant everywhere this time of year, and the red ones are hummingbird flowers. Also in the salad are fennel, arugula, radish greens, and chicory. I’ve also put the little okras on the table so you can admire them. The other bowl has young coconut in it. Yum.

And we can examine our own dreams of what feeds our spirits, what lights our internal fires, and lead our lives, a day at a time, praying for guidance for our next steps, and our next.