Some great recollections from Leslie Korn. Match the number to the picture on the left. (for some weird reason, I can't transpose these photos into order...so, just work backwards and check the numbers. sorry)
Janet played conga/bongos and we had a revolving series of musicians including Sean Shapiro. She was a budding sax player under the tutelage of ole sax musician tio Buddy. One summer we were all shvitzing and swatting flying termites (remember? before fans and light at night?) and Celeste was away somewhere and Buddy came over daily for a couple of weeks while they mastered In a Sentimental Mood.
2. Leslie, Janet and Bets Menendez (her back to Camera) 1974. We were the first to inhabit Matildes new house. He had just finished it; all bright white concrete foundation with a crisp palapa, up shit creek. The only other house there at the time was Antonio’s who was building his house in front and Pam Thomson’s further up the hill. And then Elena and Jaime’s up near the upper waterfall. Note the table filled with coffee and cigarettes; this was our pre-purification period. Living up the hill made it easy to quit smoking cigarettes... But alas Betz continued and she passed from emphysema not too many years later.
3. View of the lagoon from the re-built Casa Zalate, following the fire in 1983 during the glorious years when Rita’s house was gone and before Alfonso built his concrete edifice.
The Zalate was perfect for so many reasons and for so many years. Not the least of which was its location so close to the beach. The ocean drowned out all other sounds like the village baile and the church cuetes at midnight, but not the pounding hooves of Don Juan’s bulls being driven through town every Sunday on their way back to pasture.
4. 1980 Janet teaching yoga at the annual Traditional Medicine seminar. We began the seminars in ‘78 and they ran for 25 years at Casa Loma (now Milagros). Aricela (Camerino’s wife) is to the left. Arciela and Camerino were part of a community health group that gathered at the house every week to share food and discuss birth control. In those days the priest would show up occasionally and point a stern finger at our discussions about pills and vasectomies... hmm I forget who was the first man to jump, but soon there was a flood of vasectomies... To the left of Aricela is Janice Dent who attended a few of the Polarity trainings and was a natural born healer and Jaime was in the far back.
5. Building the treatment house at the Zalate, 1979. The first house built on stilts , serving gringo and local alike for 12 years, it provided shelter for many a borracho who fell down the side of the mountain at night and slept underneath as well as shelter and balance above for all manner of malady...
