QUIET MOMENTS, GOOD FRIENDS y FAMILY, ANCIENT HISTORY, FLAVORFILLED EXOTIC/SIMPLE FOOD, SAFE TRAVEL and GRATITUDE!

John welcomes you to the Playa Bonita, Chiapas, Mexico

Lunch? Nearing the Mercado San Sebastian, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

Breathtaking! Quiet moments inside the Cathedral of the diocese of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

The Crucified Christ, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

Casa Mexicana! Our fabulous boutique hotel in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

Service? Fortunately, Central America is filled with equal opportunity Democracies, wonderful Indigenous and ¨mixed race¨ peoples and a few Norteamericano Democrats too.

Pacific Coast/Toast? Breakfast in Retalhuleu, Guatemala

TAK´ALIK AB´AJ, Ruins, Guatemala, Before Common Era Crocodile Sculpture (food)

Pre-Christian Terraces, Ruins, TAK'ALIK AB'AJ, Guatemala


The Spaniards, The Catholic Church, The Central Square. Retalhuleu, Guatemala, Central America

AMIGOS!
AMIGAS!
AMIGOS!
TIO y TIA (de Juan Carlos), Asintal, Guatemala, Central America

EIGHTY GRANDCHILDREN and counting (Juan Carlos with his Aunt Ramona--she raised his Dad because JC´s Grandmother, her Mother, died giving birth to his Papa), Asintal, Guatemala

ALMOST HOME, all is well Gracias a Dios

·Prayers Ascending for Haiti
·Thanks to Juan Carlos C.F., Photos
·Thanks to Jenn H., Photos
·Thanks to John H., Driver
·Thanks to Ellen and Irene, Photos
·Thanks to Leonardo Ricardo, One-eyed (until March) no driving!
·Thanks to Archbishop Martin Barahona, Primate of Central America
·Thanks to Lionel Deimel, sidebar
·Thanks to Wounded Bird, sidebar
·Thanks to Leave it lay where Jesus flang it, sidebar
·Thanks to Caminante, no hay camino, sidebar


Lionel Deimel, click HERE,¨No Anglican Covenant¨

´The Windsor Report,´ he said. “It’s just a report. When did it become like The Bible?

´The Covenant´ ¨Why do we need another covenant? We have the Baptismal Covenant. We have the creeds. What else do we need?”

Archbishop Martin Barahona, the Primate, Iglesia Anglicana de la Region Central America

HASTA LA VISTA! I´ve Got A Date!

It´s a very important date. It´s three years ago TODAY that I met and immediately enjoyed the company and friendship of my dear Juan Carlos.


Tomorrow, we´re going off with a group of six friends to celebrate our Anniversary with a Road Trip that will no doubt be filled with unexpected discoveries and treasured memories!



Last year we went with the same friends to Tikal, Peten, Guatemala.

This year I´m giving you all sorts of visual aids/clues! I will be reporting, in depth no doubt, when we return.


Ole´ Mole´ Piñatas, Enchiladas and Shrimp Cocktails tambien!

So there you have it friends. I´ll be away for a few days/daze on a under-the-covers mission...I´ll be thinking of many of you, well, mostly I will.


I hope and pray for your happiness, peace of mind and overall well-being while I´m frolicing beyond any borders that I may find.

Lord, hear my prayer

EVANGELICAL WARFARE: American ¨selective¨ Scriptural bigots are spreading slander and lies in Uganda, Nigeria, Jamaica and our own communities!

American Fundamentalist/Filth Spewing Christians are not content with ONLY TWO U.S. Wars...these ¨self and sex-obsessed¨ religious fanatics have plotted/initiated the All-Africa Hate Inquistion, Fear Crusade and THE GREAT HUMAN SACRIFICE/HATE CRIME FRAME UP in a neighborhood near YOU! Who will notice their self-styled-God-appeasing GENOCIDE against LGBT people as Muslims, Hindus, Jews and Christians are being blownup and sacrificed in Iraq, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Pakistan and Afghanistan and elsewhere in the World every day?




SPIRITUAL HATEMONGERING OF THE DEMONIZING VARIETY

Scott Lively is the deadly author of the anti-social fictional, Holocaust revisionist trash entitled the The Pink Swastika

¨Let me be clear: Gay people as a group had nothing to do with the Holocaust. The “gay agenda” is full legal equality and the safety to live our lives without fear of harm. Not only are gay people as a group NOT “anti-Christian,” a remarkable number of American GLBTQ people are Christians themselves (in spite of the abuse they often take from fellow “Christians”).

And make no mistake about it: What Scott Lively and his cohorts are doing is dangerous to the safety and well-being of GLBTQ people, both in Uganda and the United States. It’s also harmful to any one who listens to him, since it leaves them ignorant, frightened, and completely unprepared to live in a diverse society.¨ Sacramento News and Review, click HERE

HATE BEGETS HATE

¨Uganda’s government, which has a shameful record of discrimination against gay men and lesbians, is now considering legislation that would impose the death sentence for homosexual behavior. The United States and others need to make clear to the Ugandan government that such barbarism is intolerable and will make it an international pariah.


Corruption and repression — including violence against women and children and abuse of prisoners — are rife in Uganda. According to The Times’s Jeffrey Gettleman, officially sanctioned homophobia is particularly acute. Gay Ugandans are tormented with beatings, blackmail, death threats and what has been described as “correctional rape.”


The government’s venom is chilling: ¨Homosexuals can forget about human rights,¨ James Nsaba Buturo, who holds the cynically titled position of minister of ethics and integrity, said recently... The New York Times, click HERE


Puritan extremist/hatefilled Americans and some overseas Christian zealot well-paid accomplices are ¨selective¨ Scriptural bigots, opportunists and thieves. They often spew/preach/spit slander with grossly ignorant/intolerable lies (Anglican Archbishop Henry Orombi/Uganda, I´m playing your song) against OUR LGBT family members, loved ones, coworkers/worshipers and friends...part of the ¨Beloved¨ amongst all of the ¨Beloved¨ are inferior and disponsable and ¨abominations¨ according to this ¨selfrighteous¨ gang.

Archbishop Pete Akinola/Nigeria, Archbishop Henry Orombi/Uganda

PURPOSE DRIVEN RELIGIOUS INSANITY (Grandstanding, Slandering, Outcasting, Theft and Murder)

Archbishop Drexel Gomez, former Primate of LGBT blooddrenched Anglican Province of JAMAICA/West Indies (number ONE leader in Crimes of Hate in the Western Hemisphere against LGBT people).

+Drexel is Chairperson on The Anglican Communion ´Covenant´ Inquistion document/pogrom promoted by dangerous Gafcon/Global South Provinces (extremists with whom he is allied) who would exclude and outcast LGBT people who are ¨called¨ to participate at ALL levels of Christian church life.


¨You know, just in case there was any doubt that, like here in America, Uganda's gay hatred is based in misguided Bible teachings.¨


¨If Uganda's Gays Kept Their Disgusting Lifestyle 'Behind Closed Doors,' The Law Wouldn't Be Necessary¨, read it all, click HERE

·Thanks to The Sacramento Bee
·Thanks to The New York Times
·Thanks to Gay Uganda, sidebar
·Thanks to Kel´s Hot Flash, blog
·Thanks to Flickr Photosharing
·Thanks to Queerty, sidebar

¨THE WORLD AROUND US SHOULD REALLY ASTOUND US...

...and not cause us to whine and complain. It´s the *way* that we see things that makes the World *be* things...¨ Dorothy Johnson


Recent arrivals in my garden of eternal delights


¨Deep Feelings¨, private collection, Guatemala City, 2009


¨My Friends Suzy and Elizabeth¨ December 2009


¨Splendid Garden¨ private collection, Antigua, Guatemala


My Inner Garden, Rainy Season, 2009


¨Joyous¨, 2009, private collection, Antigua


Juan Carlos, astounding


¨Sweeping Landscape¨, private collection, Lake Forest, Illinois


Fido Knows Things, Sala, 2009


¨The Fuego Volcano¨ private collection, Maine, United States


¨Work¨ in progress, a large oblong table (seats 8), 2010


Thinking of YOU, Thank you. 2010

·Gracias a Dios
·Gracias Amigos
·Gracias Christian Troll, GAFCON, sidebar
·Gracias Padre Mickey, sidebar
·Gracias Fr. Jake, sidebar
·Gracias My Mother is a Father, sidebar
·Gracias Kirkepiscatoid, sidebar
·Gracias Gay Spirit Diary/Josh, sidebar
·Gracias Gay Uganda, sidebar
·Gracias Episcopal Cafe, sidebar
·Gracias Counterlight's Peculiars, sidebar
·Gracias Mad Priest, sidebar
·Gracias Unthinking Anglican, sidebar
·Gracias PRELUDIUM, sidebar
·Gracias Göran Koch-Swahne, sidebar
·Gracias The World of Doorman-Priest, sidebar
·Gracias Noble Wolf, sidebar
·Gracias Real Anglicans,sidebar
·Gracias Jim's Thoughts,sidebar
·Gracias The Grapevine, sidebar
·Gracias Wounded Bird, sidebar
·Gracias Lionel Deimel's Web Log, sidebar
·Gracias Changing Attitudes, U.K., sidebar
·Gracias Caminante/Lee, no hay camino, sidebar
·Gracias In a Godward Direction/Tobias, sidebar
·Gracias Hillbilly Musing, sidebar
·Gracias The Three Legged Stool/James, sidebar
·Gracias Lavender Wolves/Mike in Texas, sidebar
·Gracias A Christian Voice for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights, sidebar

INSULATED FROM REALITY? ¨events suddenly shake us out of complacency and remind us that fear, prejudice and rage are always the shadows just beyond...

...the light of our reason¨



¨Silence killed Matthew Shepard.


Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

¨The silence of Christians who know that our scriptures on homosexuality are in interpretation and far outweighed by the words of a savior whose only comment on human relationships was to call us to never judge but only to love.¨

Martyn Minns of the CANA cult and his boss Bishop Akinola/Nigeria

¨The silence of well meaning educated people who pretend to have an enlightened view of homosexuality while quietly tolerating the abuse of gays and lesbians in their own communities.¨

Bishop Drexel Gomez, Primate of LGBT blood drenched Jamaica and the West Indies, retired, however he is the current Chair of the tainted Anglican Covenant Design Group

¨The silence of our elected officials who have the authority to make changes but prefer to count votes.¨

Republican Minority Leader John Boehner of The United States Congress and his Republican accomplices. Silence still equals death and obstruction equals punishment for most Americans.

The silence of the majority of "straight" Americans who shift uncomfortably when confronted by the thought that gays and lesbians may be no different from themselves, save for the fact that they are walking targets for bigotry, disrespect, cheap humor, and apparently, of murder...¨A Chaplain's Reflection, click HERE


STOP THE SILENCE


·Thanks to A Chaplains´ Reflection
·Thanks to Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston
·Thanks to Flickr Photosharing