Very enjoyable Bill. If you were to tally the $ sunk into the ranch and place it next to the joy it gives your daughter and her husband, well I’d say money very well spent.
Interesting story to close out the week Bill. As you said in the last sentence, time doesn't always change peoples customs. Technology doesn't always equal a superior outcome from a cost viewpoint.
Reference your use of passive sunlight for warm water and heating the house. Simple but very effective.
Actually, could it be, an alive tradition in their world far, far away from today's modern world most of us inhabit. I suspect they have no idea about "our modern world" and as Bill found "progress" such as warm water or solar heat aren't something they care about. And, on another note - how many have had their COVID shots.............
I recall those many months Bill spent at the ranch during covid because he was not permitted to leave. Argentina was shut down, and the govt watched people like hawks. Covid shots were given, just like everywhere else.
Yes we too have a long developed cultural tradition of white tablecloths and and plastic tubs known as the folks and the politicos; we live different countries but the same world.
I am heading back to Guatemala this summer for my 10th or more time, doing the Lord's work there. It took a few trips to better understand the cultural hierarchy. The Euro descendants, mostly Spanish, are better educated, larger, better fed, and frankly, generally smarter, than the indigenous people. There is tremendous distrust there between the two and memories are still vivid from the 1980s when a civil war resulted in at lelast 200,000 indigenous dead. I cannot put my finger on it, but why they absolutely cannot change a few things to make life better, I do not know. I tend to put little hope in them learning a better way. So, we don't try that anymore. Apparently, being backward, ignorant, unwilling to learn/change is a cultural thing, too. By the way, unless you have been there and done that, you khave no right to criticize these comments. I get it, Bill. They could have a warmer and more comfortable life, but insist on not having it.
I understand that in Mexico in 1910 the revolution slaughtered all the white people with blond and red hair, descendants of the conquistadors. Now all Iive in poverty except the biggest criminals and most violent.
Very enjoyable Bill. If you were to tally the $ sunk into the ranch and place it next to the joy it gives your daughter and her husband, well I’d say money very well spent.
Bill—most humbly this is the best article you have written in a long time
I enjoyed being in your world very much.
A reminder as to why I read your newsletter every day. Every now and then, a fascinating picture of humanity.
Thank you Mr Bonner for the lovely glimpse into that culture
Interesting story to close out the week Bill. As you said in the last sentence, time doesn't always change peoples customs. Technology doesn't always equal a superior outcome from a cost viewpoint.
Reference your use of passive sunlight for warm water and heating the house. Simple but very effective.
Jim Marshall
Thank you so much for sharing. First time in a while that I felt better after reading the days offering and the comments.
This is a great story of old world traditions in a modern world.
Actually, could it be, an alive tradition in their world far, far away from today's modern world most of us inhabit. I suspect they have no idea about "our modern world" and as Bill found "progress" such as warm water or solar heat aren't something they care about. And, on another note - how many have had their COVID shots.............
I recall those many months Bill spent at the ranch during covid because he was not permitted to leave. Argentina was shut down, and the govt watched people like hawks. Covid shots were given, just like everywhere else.
With all their fiestas its a wonder they get any work done.
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Lovely. Feeling our humanity and wishing we honor it fully.
Yes we too have a long developed cultural tradition of white tablecloths and and plastic tubs known as the folks and the politicos; we live different countries but the same world.
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Loved it Bill.
nice article and so well observed...
Have you ever read "The Wild Boy of Aveyron?"
-- a true story of a feral child in 18th c. France, in which it's also observed
that this child growing up naked in the woods had no sensitivity to cold.
Interesting. Thanks,
I am heading back to Guatemala this summer for my 10th or more time, doing the Lord's work there. It took a few trips to better understand the cultural hierarchy. The Euro descendants, mostly Spanish, are better educated, larger, better fed, and frankly, generally smarter, than the indigenous people. There is tremendous distrust there between the two and memories are still vivid from the 1980s when a civil war resulted in at lelast 200,000 indigenous dead. I cannot put my finger on it, but why they absolutely cannot change a few things to make life better, I do not know. I tend to put little hope in them learning a better way. So, we don't try that anymore. Apparently, being backward, ignorant, unwilling to learn/change is a cultural thing, too. By the way, unless you have been there and done that, you khave no right to criticize these comments. I get it, Bill. They could have a warmer and more comfortable life, but insist on not having it.
I understand that in Mexico in 1910 the revolution slaughtered all the white people with blond and red hair, descendants of the conquistadors. Now all Iive in poverty except the biggest criminals and most violent.
Seems the revolution hasn't gone south yet.
As is so often the case, your writing brings smiles and some new knowledge, much appreciated.