king of all sala-ma-sond

If we bloggers do one thing, it is share good sites.


Some time back, I ran across Gary Denness's blog, The Mexile. He is a young Englishman, newly married, who has a passion for photography, biking, teaching, -- and turtles.


I think it was the last category that caught my attention. One of my more memorable pets, when I was young, was Yertle the Turtle, a red-eared slider -- probably just like the turtle almost every child of the 60s owned. Yertle's existence always seemed a bit sad to me. As if a human had washed up on an old Busby Berkeley set -- long abandoned.


Friends tell me that it is a sign of poor breeding to laugh at one's jokes. I have found that rule to be at best a tope on the social highway. I usually am the one laughing loudest at my jokes.


Along the same lines, I should not indulge in the following exercise of hubris. Gary was so kind as to name "same life -- new location" as one of his top 10 blogs. If you look at his list, it is heady company.


I thank Gary for the compliment. But I thank him far more for sharing his life and experiences in Mexico with us. His discussion of joy, loss, sickness, and death -- all presented within a broader tapestry of what life means -- is a gift to us all.