| Welcome to the website of Kathleen Walske Gallier and Tom Gallier tomandkathleen.com! ¡Bienvenidos a tomandkathleen.com! Bienvenue chez nous! |
| View from Our Home in Tlachichilco del Carmen, Jalisco, Mexico |
| La Vista desde Nuestro Hogar en Tlachichilco del Carmen, Jalisco Mexico |
| La Vue Chez Nous à Tlachichilco del Carmen, Jalisco, Mexique |
| Tom and Kathleen in Secret Garden, their favorite restaurant in Ajijic, Mexico. (Tom y Kathleen en Secret Garden, su restaurante favorito en Ajijic. ) (Tom et Kathleen dans son restaurant préféré à Ajijic, Mexique.) |
| Our Home in Tlachichilco Nuestra Casa en Tlachichilco Notre Maison a Tlachichilco |
| View Towards the Lake La Vista Hacia el Lago La Vue Vers Le Lac |
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| I wish you health. I wish you wealth That passes not with time. I wish you long years. May your heart be as patient as the earth Your love as warm as the harvest gold. May your days be full, as the city is full Your nights as joyful as dancers. May your arms be as welcoming as home. May your faith be as enduring as God's love Your spirit as valiant as your heritage. May your hands be as sure as a friend Your dreams as hopeful as a child. May your soul be as brave as your people And may you be blessed. Wigglier Blessing |
| The Excellence of Love 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. ---<< 1 Corinthians 13 >> New American Standard Bible © |
| “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” --- Mark Twain |
| Kathleen's New Blog: New Millenium Optimist www.newmilleniumoptimist.blogspot.com |
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try to view and repair the jumbled text often. My
apologies if I haven't gotten to it by the time you view the
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| “There is a destiny That makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.” --- Edwin Markham |
| Secret O’ Life by James Taylor The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time Any fool can do it There ain't nothing to it Nobody knows how we got to The top of the hill But since we're on our way down We might as well enjoy the ride The secret of love is in opening up your heart It's okay to feel afraid But don't let that stand in your way 'cause anyone knows that love is the only road And since we're only here for a while Might as well show some style Give us a smile Isn't it a lovely ride Sliding down Gliding down Try not to try too hard It's just a lovely ride Now the thing about time is that time Isn't really real It's just your point of view How does it feel for you Einstein said he could never understand it all Planets spinning through space The smile upon your face Welcome to the human race Some kind of lovely ride I'll be sliding down I'll be gliding down Try not to try too hard It's just a lovely ride Isn't it a lovely ride Sliding down Gliding down Try not to try too hard It's just a lovely ride Now the secret of life is enjoying the passage of time |
| The World's Need by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) So many gods So many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs. I am the voice of the voiceless Through me the mute shall speak 'til the deaf world's ear be made to hear the cry of the wordless weak. From lab, from cage, from kennel, from slaughterhouses, comes the wail of my tortured kin who proclaim the sin of the mighty against the frail. For love is the true religion And love is the law sublime And all that is wrought where love is not will die with the touch of time. Oh, shame on the mothers of mortals Who have not stopped to teach of the sorrow that lies in an animal's eyes; the sorrow that has no speech. The same power formed the sparrow that fashioned man; the king The god of the whole gave a living soul to furred and to feathered thing. And I am my brother's keeper And I will fight his fight and speak the word for beast and bird til the world shall set things right. |
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| "Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ... Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering." —Rev. Andrew Linzey |
Secret Garden closed a few years ago. Georgina's
and Peter's baked goods are still available at the
Tuesday Organic Market.
and Peter's baked goods are still available at the
Tuesday Organic Market.
Muros y puertas Desde que existe el Mundo hay una cosa cierta unos hacen los muros y otros hacen las puertas, pero eso mi amor, creo que eso ya lo sabes. Unos tienen invierno y otros las primaveras unos encuentran suerte, pero otros ni siquiera, pero eso mi amor, creo que eso ya lo sabes. Y siempre fue así y eso tú lo sabes, que la libertad solo existe cuando no es de nadie. De que sirve la luna si no tienes la noche, de que sirve un molino sino quedan Quijotes, pero eso mi amor, creo que eso ya lo sabes. Y mientras se confunde la tierra con el cielo, unos sueñan con Dios y otros con el dinero, pero eso mi amor, es lo que se ve en la calle Y siempre fue así y eso tú lo sabes, que la libertad solo existe cuando no es de nadie. Desde que existe el Mundo hay una cosa cierta unos hacen los muros y otros las puertas. ~ Carlos Varela ~ |
| Walls and Doors As long as the world has existed There is one thing for sure Some build walls And others build doors But this my love I think you already know this Some have winter and others have Springs Some find luck but others not even that But this my love I think you already know And it's always been that way And this you know That freedom only exists when no one owns it What good is the moon If you don't have the night What good is a windmill unless some Quijotes are left But this my love This, I think you already know And while the land Is confused with the sky Some dream of God and others of money But this my love Is what is seen on the street And it has always been that way And this, you know it That freedom only exists When no one owns it As long as the world has existed There is one thing for sure Some build walls And other build doors ~Carlos Varela~ (My translation to English) |
~ Carlos Varela~ El Poeta de Havana |
| The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Carlos Varela & Dave Matthews "Muros y Puertas" at PBS Lincoln Centre NYC Joshua Bell Seasons of Cuba |
| The Lake Chapala Area has a vegan restaurant! It's family-run and -owned. If you haven't tried it, you are really missing out on a fabulous, delicious, gastronomic wave of flavor and tradition!!!! Great people, great family, great presentation, great atmosphere! Ol-Lin Independencia #137 B San Antonio Tlayacapan, Jalisco Mexico 45920 3318193969 https://www.facebook.com/Ol-lin-Vegan-127588057971842/ |