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Erik just started a page to register the chronologies of his travel to Ecuador. He's getting in touch with Never Land Farm people and launched a very original idea. Get organic coffee by July 3th by mail. You just need a PayPal account and you are all set.

The money collected will be used to buy clothes, toys, and solar lights. These items are going to help families in the Loja province of Ecuador, specifically a town called Tumianuma ( near Vilcabamba)

So, if this is something you feel like helping out with and getting an awesome item in return, he's put a paypal button  here. The cost is $13.50/lb ppd and will be shipping Priority Mail between July 3 and 5. Feel free to post comments if you have any questions you have for Erik!

Please, pread it out!

It's being a while since we don't write a word in this blog but today we felt motivated to share with you a post from The Universe, an ecuadorean newspaper where Bernard Fougéres, writes about a beutiful small city in the ecuadorean southern.  Carlos Jumbo is our alibi, and we've traslated a paragraph for your beneplacit:

Loja shelters inside a carton of mountains. Anyone who does not know it, feels Ecuador  only the half. I enjoyed myself as a child taking photos on the Jipiro's Recreational Park  (the dictionary rebuffed the 'recreational' word). At the City's  Gate Museum , drawings by Manuel Serrano  fascinated me  by the way he  changes animal image into humans and viceversa, creating beings from other dimensions with the instinctive cruelty of Stornaiolo, the contrasts of light and shade that Rembrandt loved. I've got my lunch  in Quo Vadis, Latin question answered in the same language when I had to affix my signature in the visitors' book: "Quo vadis? Semper usque ad felicitatem sweet est quia desipere in loco "(" Where do I go? Always towards happiness because it is sweet fool around in the right place "). Since then,  I remembered the film Quo Vadis?, Created in 1951, with Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov. I've got to try a entire bottle of  Beronia, romantic wine from La Rioja. In Vilcabamba I triped over in the same  way Fidel Castro did it, not for being drunk  but for being clumsy since birth

Next time you choose Ecuador for a trip, I strongly suggest to head down south and ask for Loja and Vilcabamba.

Show us what makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.

Well, the smell of a hot coffee.  Or who knows the warmth of a beautiful female company. May be the news about the lucky number of the lottery...

As for now, I think it will be worth to wake up early a good phone call telling they want me for a job interview..!!

Have each of you a Happy New Year!

When do you start your holiday shopping?

Being in a consumer oriented society, we keep buying at all times but if we talk about Christmas, then we should agree everyone, I always look foward those discounts in big stores but I don't sacrifice sleep hours!  :)

--->  It pays to click on this

I've ever thought I will like it but definetely it is a wonderful series book and after reading Marc Shapiro, unauthorized biography about the author that only thing I can say she's inspiring and hard worker writer.  Two quotations impress me a lot, being a divorced lone mother:

I've made my mistakes in that area [divorce]. Just because you've got a good brain  doesn't mean you're any better that the next person  at keeping your hormones under control"

And about her obstacles trying to feed up little daughter she said:

I had a degree, a profession, and friends who were willing to lend me money when I badly needed it... So if I met obstacles pulling myself outof the benefits system, how much more difficult must it be for people who don't have the same advantages?  Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone I meet in the eye and say that people bringing up children  single-handedly deserve not condemnation, but congratulation"