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Buscando una direccion en mi mail viejo, encontre este mail de Brad desde Mexico:
alittle report i wrote late at night:

hello beautiful people
i am really inspired and truly exhausted right now -- been traveling with
La Otra Caravana in mexico with Subcomandante Marcos out of chiapas and
now through the yukatan penninsula -- i guess you read and hear and think
about people who inspire you but it is a whole different experience to
meet them, see them and listen -- some people are just so plain and simply
honest you can feel it in their presence -- you just know to trust them --
i can feel it now and know i came here for a reason -- yesterday Marcos
talked with a small group of campesinos from Quintana Roo -- but more he
listened, he wrote in his notebook, and you could see he was thinking
about what they were saying -- it was a small meeting of local social
movements -- later that night he was in front of a big crowd in the plaza
-- he shared their stories with the crowd -- he shared the feeling that
hit him -- the same problems in the poor mountains of chiapas -- the same
pain worthy repeating -- today he spoke softly close to tears about
comandante ramona -- he told a story from the oral tradition of the maya
she shared with him -- her voice couldnt die -- "never again a mexico
without us" she said -- never again without her as well -- we lose so much
and fight so hard -- some times we sit and wait and want to break down and
cry, rip out our hair in frustration, beat the walls, fight with friends,
hate ourselves -- but sometimes we need a simple moment to reflect and
shrink the world into a tiny point and look at it for what it is,
misshappen, deformed, broken, dying -- but also realize that even though
we are children of a messed up human race it doesnt mean we cant try -- we
are busy undoing the damage they have done, done to us -- but it is good
work and we can do it -- marocs message on this trip surprised me with its
simplicity -- dont follow the political parties to their doom -- remake
our lives collectively and sustain -- it is a system we are fighting and
it is called capitalism -- and maybe we all need to hear those simple
words one more time -- i have a lot more to say but i am going to get back
to the madness for a while and try and absorb it -- and maybe find that
silence inside to clear the pain from my history -- i can only do my best
-- do you want to try?

stay solid people
b

'In sum, we are an army of dreamers, and therefore invincible. How can we
fail to win, with this imagination overturning everything. Or rather, we
do not deserve to lose.''
- Subcomandante Marcos

finger foods

Here’s a list of finger food favorites: •  O-shaped toasted oat cereal or other low-sugar cereal

•  Lightly toasted bread or bagels (spread with vegetable puree for extra vitamins)

•  Small chunks of banana or other very ripe peeled and pitted fruit, like mango, plum, pear, peach, cantaloupe, or seedless watermelon

•  Small cubes of tofu

•  Well-cooked pasta spirals, cut into pieces

•  Very small chunks of cheese

•  Chopped hard-boiled egg (after 12 months)

•  Cut-up raisins, softened dried apricots, or stewed prunes

•  Small pieces of well-cooked vegetables, like carrots, peas, zucchini, potato, or sweet potato

•  Small well-cooked broccoli or cauliflower “trees”

•  Pea-size pieces of cooked chicken or other soft meat

•  Rice cakes or crackers broken into small pieces

from the baby center

amazing photos from the ENIAC project

first four programmers