A Metaphysical Rumination

The other day I was talking to a gringo neighbor and at one point, though I don’t recall what elicited the subject, he asked me if I believed in the concept of reincarnation.
My answer was that all things in the universe are composed of essentially two elements, matter and energy. The human body is, [...]

Paul Wolfowitz

If you’re interested, here’s a good piece from the Cornell Alumni Magazine on Wolfowitz’s formative years in Ithaca and at the Telluride Association residence at Cornell, where Leo Strauss acolyte Allan Bloom daily held court for “his ideal ‘blank slates’–gifted but [...]

More Jardin Botanico

Bougainvillea is omnipresent in Xalapa, as it also is in Merida.

I don’t know what type of plant this is which grows attached to trees, but very many of them were blooming.

A fairly typical view of the expanses of the lawn areas planted with trees.

The entrance to the garden.