Teaching friends, and Tulum
I stopped by Altu’s restaurant today. She has finished the cuff of her first sock ever, and I spent time teaching her how to make a heel flap and turn a heel. She also tells me her two girls really enjoy spinning with drop spindles. It is such a joy to share what I love, with people I love.
We are gearing up for her restaurant to have live music once a week. I am lining up some musicians for her. I’m pretty excited, because a week from today, Brian and I get to perform there. And our other band, Abbott Brothers, is performing there on the 22nd as well. This will be a fun month for music!
At work today, Mandy (my friend who bought me yarn for Christmas) told me that her beau won a trip at his new job, to Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. They leave next week for five days, and are staying in an area I have visited twice (and totally adore). They will be on the Caribbean coast, south of Cancun and north of Tulum. I have driven that stretch twice and you just can not believe how beautiful it is.
Tulum is perhaps the only place in the world where I have nothing to say. I just shut up and drink it all in. It is an ancient Maya city, once a civilized holy place (it still feels holy, but now nobody lives there). What is unique about Tulum is that there are limestone cliffs right up to the water, so they put a temple where there was an amazing view, unlike any I’ve seen. The architecture there is not important, but the location is unbeatable. Notice in the photo here that I took in 1996, there is a temple pyramid on the cliff.
My soul is at home in Tulum, it is my favorite place on this planet. I was so inspired by a trip there that I wrote a poem titled La Playa Hermosa (the Beautiful Beach). The poem is part of the first website I ever made, a travelogue about the trip Brian and I took in 1996 to this marvelous place, the Yucatan peninsula. The site looks a bit dated now, but the story remains.
We hope to return to Mexico ourselves, next year. I truly miss it.