The End of 2018 in Mexico City

The casita garden

My little dog and I arrived back in our favorite city resting place in Coyoacan just before Christmas. Having planned this trip in October, I encountered several difficulties after Thanksgiving that made me question what I thought was a positive holiday travel decision; however I trusted my original wisdom and followed my plans to celebrate Christmas and make journey daybook pages around the year-end holidays. Mimi is relatively healthy; however she is 15 years old and mostly blind and deaf. What was a easy journey this summer became more stressful for both of us in December. Thankfully, we made it unscathed in less than 5 hours from the Orlando airport to our casita here.

Little has changed in the neighborhood in 5 months and it has been easy to pick up the routine of walking and riding by Uber to find sites that offered new educational and cultural opportunities. I have easily made journey daybook pages daily. I felt warmly accepted at the little local parish church of San Diego de Churubusco for mass and for one of the posada celebrations before Christmas. I loved attending mass, admiring the crèche, and walking through the Church of San Juan Bautista in the center of Coyoacan on Christmas Eve, before I had dinner at a popular Oxoacan restaurant, Los Danzantes, in the square.

When I planned this adventure my simple goal was to document my experiences as a way to appreciate them more fully. Without intention, the theme of my explorations here has been largely feminist. I have visited several U-Topicas, a contemporary feminist art gallery and book store, several times and continue to be inspired by their wonderful Facebook posts. The two historical figures from Mexico City that most intrigue me are Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th century nun, artist and poet, and Frida Kahlo, the wonderful 20th century artist in whose neighborhood we reside. I am surrounded every day by the brilliant work of my hostess, Luz, right here at the casita! I hope to deepen all these explorations and to share them in the next half of my journey and beyond.

15 thoughts on “The End of 2018 in Mexico City

  1. What a great year-end gift to read more detail of your Christmas time in Mexico City and to see these beautiful pages. Are you still working in Allison’s journal or was that filled up long ago? I can’t remember.

    • Thanks, Barbara, for your question.
      I had enough empty pages for this trip but decided, instead, to work in my regular journey daybook. After I am home, I plan to have Colleen print all the pages from my scans and I will transfer the printed pages into Allison’s book. It is just MUCH easier to work on and scan totally flat pages.
      So, now I am off by Uber to the gourmet San Juan Mercado in Mexico City’s center. More later.

  2. Beautiful pages, Peggy. I am always excited to see your work. I particularly love the lettering of your Christmas Eve ‘C’.

  3. You continue to be such an inspiration, Peggy. Your courage and curiosity to delve into parts of the world with your sketchbook and paints move me. God bless you, my friend, on your journey to holiness. Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year! Love, hugs, and prayers, Charlene

    • Thank you for taking the time to join this blog. I can be a bit more transparent here. Also, my work is more solidly archived.
      Thank you also for your many blessings directed toward me.

    • And I have been thinking a great deal about you and Dave as I see your posts, Gloria. Thanks for logging into my blog. Let’s try and get together once we are both home.

  4. What a delight to follow you on your adventures! I remember when Mimi first became your dear little friend so many years ago. Wishing you all the joys a New Year can bring.

    • Thanks, Kathleen. Mimi and I have had an amazing 15 years together. Many of our experiences have been loaded with humor – caused by each of us. She has been an incredible fire dog for me!

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