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Sunday, December 31, 2017

LET LOVE BE CONTAGIOUS in 2018!

Well tonight is New Year's Eve!

Today is the last day of 2017. A time to give pause and remember what the year was like. So as we head into this next year, with a coffee and dash of Frangelico in my hand and a bit of a head cold, the first things that I am reminded of is the importance of health.

I am grateful for so many things that happened this year. As I look back it has been quite the incredible journey. Often we get caught up in all the little seemingly mundane things of life and forget to look at the bigger picture.

This year began in turmoil for me. I was in the Reconciliation Carving Program at Langara and just trying to process all the energy, positive and negative, the information, the education and enlightenment and awareness, trying to deal with my energy interacting with others...was extremely challenging. The greatest gift was that I had loving support from friends and family and I had my art. My art is my medicine. Whether it was putting my feelings down on my blog, or carving them out in a piece of wood, my art saved my life this year. I am very grateful and humble. I thank God, the Multiverse, my Ancestors, my child, my family and my neighbors and total strangers for helping me, for lifting me when I fell and carrying me when I really thought I just wasn't going to make it. I had some really dark times this year.

Why am I sharing this?...because I hope it can help others. To let you know that when you are in a really dark place, reach out, as difficult and scary and humiliating as it can be...reach out, someone will help. It may not come in the form you think or from who you think. The world (life) will surprise you. It surprises me ALL the time.

For that I am grateful. So grateful. Thank you!

Thank you so much for everyone,

every energy that helped me this year.

MUCHAS GRACIAS!

What does this next year hold for Angel and I? I really have no clue. I am putting my positive thoughts and energies into finding a new home for us, a new community that will accept, love, support and nurture us and that we can reciprocate.

If you had told me we would actually make it to Mexico this year, I might not have believed you. But I set a date and just kept saying it and telling it to people and it happened. I didn't believe it really until Aaron Nelson Moody- my carving instructor/mentor told me "you'll do it!" And just like that, I felt I could. I needed someone to believe in me and help me believe in myself again. Was it easy, has it been easy, no...in the beginning it was very difficult, we had lots of issues with many many things, but we just kept being positive and things have worked out.

We have 2 more months here . We need a home. I am hoping Salt Spring will be the answer to our prayers. Please think positive thoughts for us. What is my real wish for 2018. My wish is that I get a Tinyhouse and that it can be put on a piece of land by some water but someplace where I can have a beautiful garden and implement permaculture and basically make my Pinterest Vision Board come true. Build popbottle greenhouses and barrel composts and well try to live off the land as best we can, exploit it for what we need but love it and care for it. To nurture it and let it nurture us. Do you have a little piece of land that I can use, have, rent, buy??? and can you help me build a Tinyhouse? or do you have one to give me or do you want to trade for art...can you help me? can I help you?

Tonight is the Karma Cleansing at Shambhala, it's has been 5 years since the last time we attended one and poor Shambhala has really had some hard times with earthquakes, hurricanes and so many things. It's getting older, as the owner Gloria is, as we all are. I don't know when I can come back to Zipolite, could be another 5 years..and I am not sure if Shambhala will be here or not.

So tonight is very very special.

I am going to really embrace this experience for the love that is put into the celebration. For the gathering of souls coming to experience and express their oneness. We are one!

That was my main lesson this year, from my Reconciliation Carving Classes, from the Elder Shane Pointe, from so many beautiful people I have met, the message is being shouted loud and clear...

WE ARE ONE!

We need to think like that, when you hurt someone, you hurt yourself, and vice versa...and we are one with Mother Earth. When we hurt her or one of her creations, we hurt.

So LOVE each other!

LOVE YOURSELF!

Take care of YOURSELF.

A powerful message I received this year...was "put the oxygen mask on yourself first!"
You can't help others if you can't save yourself. It's like the lifeguards/salvavidas swimming out to the person drowning without the boogie board/life preserver...you are going to drown too!

That is why I shut down my other blog. I was drowning.

On the upside I found myself this year. I was lost. I didn't know who I really was but then with lots of research and soul searching I found my roots and balance and made peace with myself and with others. So this year really was a healing journey for me. My healing year I guess. I am still on my journey, I guess we all are. I am not sure it where this next year will take me...

But I FEEL ALIVE NOW! I feel healthy and happy and energized and even though life is still a struggle and I have worries, I am pushing forward knowing it's going to be okay and reminding myself, reach out, ask for help. I hope you will do the same.

I am so blessed and I know it and I am truly grateful. And so as we head into 2018 I send LOVE and LIGHT and put you ALL IN A BUBBLE OF LOVE so that you can be protected and safe. May this year surprise us all with positive things, may we create lots of positive energy and spread and share love with all we meet. LET LOVE BE CONTAGIOUS! When I touch you, or you read my words, you CATCH it!! I LOVE YOU!

Here's to 2018, may it me my best year YET!!
CHEERS, MY DEARS!
Hugs and Kisses!
Besos y Abrazos!

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2017
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Honoring my dad today- Dia de los Muertos

Dia de los Muertos is on Nov 1, 2, 3 here in Zipolite and Oaxaca City and all over Mexico

Today I am honoring my dad online today on the day of his passing but this next week I will go to Pochutla and gather the flowers and little clay pot to hold the copal and create a little alter for him and put some fruit and bread and a drink there and chocolate.

He passed away when I was just a little girl of eleven. Every year I shocked at how much time has passed. Forty four years. 44 years. That is along time not to have a dad/father in your life.

Do you know something else? I have been telling everyone recently I am 56...ha! ha! I just realized I am only 55. Go figure. Ha! I just gained a year! Well that's a nice surprise, I guess. Silly me.

Anyways, I just wanted to post a little bit about what Dia de los Muertos is about. Here in Mexico the relationship with death is so different. And it starts at the beginning of life. People talk about it. In the so called Canadian culture it is much different...and I am not talking about Indigenous cultures because those cultures are thousands of years old, and I talking about the last 150 years that Canada so proudly claims (puke...but that's another story)

There they have Halloween and it is COMPLETELY different than Dia de los Muertos. I read about some trolley ride and it was to go to the old morgue and other gross things. There it is about haunted houses and scary gross often violent things, like Fright nights and negative energy.

Dia de los Muertos is about LOVE! It is about honoring the people who have passed on to the next place but are with you in spirit. I carry all the people I love in my heart. They are always with me whether here in this world or the next.

Dia de los Muertos is a mix of indigenous and christianity but it is a personal thing. Honoring those you loved and still love. It's about not forgetting them. It is about showing respect and cherishing their memories.

So Daddy, I love you. I miss you. I wish you could have physically have been in my life much longer. I know you are near and in this last year I have learned how to reach out to you and ask for help, when I call on my ancestors for help, I always ask for yours. I want to thank you, thank you for all your love and support and protection.

That is the garage my dad built, he was really great at building, and making things. I remember he made me a merry go round and a little swimming pool. He was a great gardener, he was a good farmer and we had a small hobby farm when I was growing up and we ate very well. He was a good provider. He had a hard life. He was the youngest of 11 children (that survived. 2 died) of Bohemian Immigrants/Settlers and I know he tried many professions like fishing and farming and he built homes for his mom in Sooke I believe and one in Vancouver...that had a bay window but it's gone and I didn't get to see it. He built a nice home in Surrey for us.

He worked for 20 years at BCTel until they went on strike and he decide to try his hand at a business but he had no training and the timing just was not right although, he was a visionary like me. He knew the highway would get bigger and more traffic would come.

He tried so hard to make this restaurant, garage and camp ground work. He worked himself to death.

My mom and him and my brother tried to make it go 24 hours a day. It was too much. They were all sleep deprived. My father drank to deal with the sadness. He refused to go on welfare and couldn't get help anyways. The doctors just gave him pills do deal with the stress. In the end it was to much and he took his life. And since he took his life there was no life insurance and so my mom was left with an awful mess of raising 3 teens alone and dealing with debt collectors and many difficult things.

It was alot like that movie Ya Ya Sisterhood. Have you ever watched that? Not so violent but yes there was a lot of anger and stress and depression. But there was love. He loved us all so much.

He was also raised Catholic and well that is too big of an issue to discuss here but there just wasn't any help for him.

What happened to us left a legacy that I have learned to deal with and in the last year in my class in Carving and Reconciliation I dealt with a lot of the grief and the carving really helped me grieve. Art has really helped me so much.

So I will use art to build a beautiful little alter for Dia de los Muertos and honor him and my mom and all the beautifuls souls who have passed and whom I carry in my heart.

My dad is why I became a photographer. He left us all these great home movies and my mom and I made them into Vhs and then I put them on the computer and made this little video. It's about 30 minutes so get some tea and treat and watch. You may find it very interesting and you may want to do the same with your own home movies that your parents made.

This 5 years ago at the end of a fabulous night of celebrating Dia de los Muerots.

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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Coming Soon!! Zipolita's 6th Annual Festival Dia de Muertos Nov 1-3 2017

"Por una conciencia viva a través de la muerte" Calavera Social Club colectivo conciente te invita a participar en el 6to festival cultural de día de los muertos en Zipolite (Playa de los muertos) Oaxaca. Los días 1,2 y 3 de noviembre teatro, danza, cuento y música unidos en el festival. Este festival tiene como fin preservar una de las tradiciones mas bonitas y coloridas de nuestro México además de proyectar a Zipolite como un sitio de turismo alternativo único en el país. Este es un festival es totalmente independiente y el contenido tiene el objetivo de estimular el crecimiento espiritual de cada persona a través de las artes y de los valores humanos y nuevas alternativas de vida.

"For a living conscience through death"
Calavera Social Collective collective club invites you to participate in the 6th day cultural festival of the dead in Zipolite (Playa de los muertos) Oaxaca.
The days 1,2 and 3 of November theater, dance, story and music united in the festival.
This festival aims to preserve one of the most beautiful and colorful traditions of our Mexico in addition to projecting Zipolite as an alternative tourism site unique in the country. This is a festival is completely independent and the content aims to stimulate the spiritual growth of each person through the arts and human values and new alternatives of life.

Sunday, December 27, 2015

Short Film of Our Journey in Mexico 2008-9

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Monday, December 31, 2012

A Happy New Year's Wish 2013

Blog post by Tina Winterlik © 2012
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Wow! So it's here, I wasn't thinking too much about the New Year as I was so excited about Christmas.

Seeing Christmas thru the eye's of a child is such an amazing and uplifting experience, it makes your eyes tear and your heart grow so big sometimes it feels like your going to burst.

I have been SO VERY VERY BLESSED this year. I feel these last 5 months have been the most peaceful and happiest in my life. My stress level went from like 10-0. I just totally relaxed.

My life here has been filled with so much love and happiness and I give thanks to God and all the positive powers that be for blessing me so generously.

It was truly an amazing year for us. Mexico is home to us in so many ways and I pray and project that I our dreams come true in this next year.

What are my dreams and prayers?

Well, my biggest wish and strongest desire is that of my daughter's, that we can live in Mexico.

So this year ...

I Dream, Pray, Project ... I BELIEVE that Angel and I will

live on a little piece of land in Zipolite
build a small cob house
continue to homeschool
speak better Spanish ;)
have raised bed gardens that produce wonderful fruits & vegetables to nourish my family
have chickens and maybe rabbits, a little chihuahua, a cat and a bird
have a pop bottle green house to start all my seeds and small plants in
have a wonderful composter that creates rich black healthy soil to grow my garden in
continue to be surrounded by loving family and friends
be able to give gardening, cob building, art, chocolate making & social media workshops
enjoy days are filled with art, long nature walks, playing in the ocean, riding bikes, & peace
grow, harvest and eat beautiful bounties of healthy food and medicinal herbs like lavender
continue to help artists & small biz to promote themselves thru videos, photos & blogs
create a film about Zipolita'z and Angelita'z Adventurez in Mexico
travel and see more of the world
be as relaxed and full of love and happiness as the last 5 months of been

What are your aspirations for 2013?

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Nominated for Ninjamatics 2011 Canadian Weblog Awards

Blog post by Tina Winterlik © 2011
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Hey!! This Blog Adventurez in Mexico has been nominated for the Ninjamatics 2011 Canadian Weblog Awards in the Best New Weblog, Art & Photography, Life and Travel categories.

The 2011 Canadian Weblog Awards are a juried competition with nominations open in 37 categories between January 1st and October 31st, 2011.

The nominees shortlist will be announced on December 1st, 2011, and the winners will be announced on January 1, 2012.

I'm so excited!! This is so cool as just the other day I was thinking maybe I should put this puppy to bed. I mean I don't get paid for blogging, I don't even have ads or a donate button. I have tested both but for the ads, well I didn't care for the products and well the donate no one did, so just left my blog pure.

I do love to share though and that's what drives me to blog.

It's lovely to acknowledged and to win this would be really fabulous. Congrats to all the nominees! P.S. My blog Tina Winterlik is nominated too!