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Charm and bustle and a hazy hot morning.

Although the original la catrina image ‘symbolized the inner-emptiness of the upper class (fancy dead women in ball gowns)’ and ‘created to show the reason why a revolution was needed to equalize Mexican society’ I am drawn to the revolutionary catrinas, brandishing rifles and criss-crossed ammunition belts, with little baby skeletons slung on their backs. […]

Camarones fajitas, stiff margaritas in cheery glasses, a crooning harp player, incredible candlelit ambiance and a fat cigar- dinner at Si Señor! This beautiful little shrine was well loved. Open air, stone and color. Really bending the strings, he made the music echo and my heart ache.

Took a short and lively bus ride to downtown Puerto Vallarta for our first gaze on the beach, and a stroll on the Malecon- an oceanside boardwalk. http://www.banderasnews.com/vallarta-maps/central-vallarta.htm Loved these bronze pieces, especially the chairs! http://www.pvpulse.com/en/art/puerto-vallarta-culture-malecon-sculptures

Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important, said Carl Jung. The interesting thing is why we’re so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness, said David Foster Wallace. We’re all in this alone, said Lily Tomlin. (From http://www.imrevolting.net/?p=6233)