 Grasshoppers by Oaxacan painter Francisco Toledo – foto by smith I never decided or planned to live odd or do different. It just happened. It’s more that reality saw how easy-going I was and realized it could get away with a lot more. I’m mostly open-minded and (if you’re not a politician or a preacher) fairly non-judgmental. I’ve lead an interesting life with many unusual adventures along my erratic way, but life got much more interesting and the adventure amped up when Lady walked into my existence 40 months ago and informed me she was going to stay. Hmmmmmmm, Christ wandered 40 days in the desert, Noah floated 40 nights on the waters, and I’ve wandered 40 months in the worlds of Lady. Though those two are better known than I because they had a bigger agent – God. It’s hard to compete against a PR firm that leaves The Word of Your Agent in every hotel motel room around the world. Anyway thanks to Lady, we’ve been living south of the border down Mexico way for a year now. Have 3 more months before moving back to the U.S.A. We’ll be moving from temperatures in the upper 80s here to the lower 40s there, from a mile above sea level to near sea level, from multi pastel & primary colored houses to grayness, from massive flowering trees to none, from daily butterflies to occasional, from daily flowers to seasonal, from almost free weed to unaffordable, from everyday sun to continual cloudiness, from surrounding mountains to the flat Great Lake, from poverty to poverty. Life with Lady is ever changing, horizons ever expanding. Reality with Lady seems more Spandex than spanner wrench. So on with the show.  English library film noir – foto by smith |