Los Alcatraces Cozumel

17/11/2024

Cool skies today over Señor Iguanas today..🌫️🌨️
and the classics!

15/11/2024

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15/11/2024

Buenos dias from Cozumel Mexico 🌴🌴 It's a beautiful, warm Friday!

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Happy Holidays 🎄❄️☃️🌴🌊🏖️
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02/11/2024

It was Halloween, a holiday of fun and mischief for children—masks, candy, and staying up late. But yesterday, in Mexico, begins Día de los Mu***os, a holiday more aimed at adults and with deeper philosophical roots. All over Mexico and in other places that celebrate the holiday, people are gathering not for treats, but to honor and remember their loved ones who have passed away. It’s a three-day reflection on the essence of “memento mori” a collective moment of bereavement that blends somber remembrance with the vibrancy of a jazz funeral.
The great Montaigne once shared a story from the New World: an ancient drinking game where participants would pass around a painting of a co**se in a coffin, toasting, “Drink and be merry, for when you’re dead you will look like this.” It’s both cheeky and profound, perfectly capturing the spirit of Día de los Mu***os. The imagery of skulls and skeletons, the face paint, the music and dancing, the prayers, and the altars—all serve as reminders that death is not a horror to avoid, but a natural part of life to acknowledge and, in some ways, celebrate.
At first glance, it may seem strange to celebrate death—stranger still to involve children. But is it really any odder than banishing all thoughts of death from our lives, allowing it to resurface only in moments of dread? Or pretending that the one universal certainty—our mortality—can be ignored?
There is great value in rituals that allow us to confront and even dance with the reality of death. Taking time to process, grieve, and accept this inevitable part of existence helps us live with more clarity. It’s better to regularly acknowledge death, like scheduling an annual check-up, than to be shocked by it when it inevitably arrives.
So today, drink, be merry, and celebrate the Day of the Dead. Remember those you’ve lost, and cherish the ones still here. In the end, that’s all we can really do.

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30/10/2024

🎃🎃🎃 but not here!! At least 80⁰!

27/10/2024

🏵️🏵️COME SUPPORT 'Ch'Ujuk🏵️🏵️

Their store, at 30 y 7, was hit hard, due to a terrible car crash. Unfortunately, their insurance will not cover their damages😔
Check out their menu in Google maps or facebook and go see them!!

Muchas Gracias to Lowell and Myrna for treating us all to delicious sweet treats!!❤️❤️

25/10/2024

This is the day I want to give a big shout out to my Mexican people who live on the island and are so kind and generous!! Another reason why I love my community!
Today I stopped into the soriana store on 30 avenue, I had to park across the street and I took my umbrella with me because we have been having rain. When I came outside it was pouring and the water was up to my calves. I had one heavy bag of groceries on my shoulder and my umbrella. There was no dry spot to walk across the street, and a young local Mexican man, in his twenties was walking by and I said, ayuda por favor? Without hesitation, he gave me his arm and walked me across four lanes with water almost up to my knees! I just kept saying muchas gracias muchas gracias, and he had the biggest smile on his face. This is another reason why I love Cozumel ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
(These are not the actual photos from today, but a visual)
He wouldn't let me tip him. Muchas gracias ¡Jovencito, eres Son una bendición 🙏🏽