Hanging out in sweats by the pool - an entry on Mexico

It's good to know that my country is changing. A dynamic place is far less static than electricity anyway.

Talking about the horrible things happening is stuff for the news networks. Talking about the great things happening in my country is stuff for the politicians through public service announcement.

How else would the people know how good their country is doing?
It's the attitude that Mexico is the mob and the mob is fickle. True on the mob's part, unfortunately we have drug cartel's. Sicily never made it big in MX.

As I've said before Mexico is a catholic country. Business is conducted through the godparent system - not Puzo, again, Sicily, not big - where your best friend and business partners will invariably be your kids' godparents. The term is compadre. We're a country with high aspirations and we're in a hurry to prove it to the world by building high apartment buildings. Who needs office space?

The truth is - not that everything before has been a lie because it wasn't - but I love my country. I love the hidden gems that can be found in 100 foot waterfalls in the middle of a forest or a jungle. I love the valleys filled with small towns where all the houses are painted in two colors: burgundy and white. I love the pine forest and the avocado orchards that cover whole states.

I love the warmth on the coldest day of winter. I love the fact that we have flea markets that run through 4 miles of city and in which you can buy everything from Costco brand wine to lobster to an oxygen tank. I love the fact that the second largest indoor market in Latin America is in my city and that it is named, in english, Market Liberty.

Where was I going with this?

Perhaps it was that people are people wherever you go. Human beings, I find, are simple in nature, no matter how tangled they try to get the web to be. But there's something about my people. An ebullient warmth or maybe its just giddiness of personality. I'm afraid that's changing but I hope to fix that. Or write a book to save my country and hopefully the world.

Call it: Ambicion Mexicana.