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stories of Maya wisdom, compassion & magic
Learn about Magic, Shamanism, Supernatural Beings, Sacred Sites, Ceremony, Meditations, Food, Maya Life and Giving Back. The supernatural weaves itself through everything here, all is connected, all is alive.


Feeding Families, Protecting the Jungle: How a Small Project Became a Big Vision
We need your help. Every dollar/peso goes directly to Eugenia's fish tanks. In all honesty, I feel a bit overwhelmed. So much happened on...
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Fish Farms, Family Futures, and the Fight for the Yucatán
But there is another option. One that will provide ready cash for families, build their feeling of personal power and self-esteem, and give them a reason to hold onto the land their families have owned
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A Future Beyond the Cartel: How Rodi Is Growing His Dream.
From fish tanks to fertile land, one young man is transforming his life with hope and sustainability.
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Empowering a Mayan Family: Help Us Finish the Fish Farm Project
We need your help to get to the finish line. . . The filter is the center of the fish farm system we are redesigning and rebuilding for this Mayan family. However, the plumber had not finished the work we asked him to do.
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Rescuing a Dream
This Maya woman was given a fish farm. A few months later, it was destroyed by
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Relief from the Sweltering Heat
It was hot. Stifling. The kind of damp heat that takes your breath away.
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Devastation with a Happy Ending!
The winds devastated the fields, knocking down underdeveloped plants and prophesying a hungry future for the people in the farm villages
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Giving the Gift of Sight
We arrived in the little village where our good friend Francisco and his family live with a small bag of things to donate. In the bottom...
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Hurricane Delta and the Loss of Ancient Corn
Help Feed Maya Families! $50 USD feeds a family of 10 for a month! Hurricane Delta has devastated Maya farms. We are doing what we can...
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Food for the Hungry
When the world closes down and there is no help, how do you feed your family? The pandemic here meant no work. There was no government...
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Re-defining Poverty
Poverty = Lack of Money. Ok, so let's start with this. If poverty is the lack of money, and that is generally how we think of it, then...
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Eugenia, a Maya Angel in Trouble
Eugenia has been helping me help those who need it most in her pueblo in Mexico. I bring donations of clothing and household items to her...
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A New Maya Princess Gets a Basket of Princess Clothes
This is Samuel and Estella and their new baby girl! They live in La Colonia in Puerto Morelos. La Colonia is the more "local" part of...
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Happiness in a Bowl of Mexican Mole
We sat down at the table in the tiny garden restaurant. I'd been there once and eaten the best mole' of my life, mole' so yummy I wanted...
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The Harsh Price of Connection in a Rural Community
Sometimes things are encouraging, sometimes they are sad. Recently we have lost a lot of people in our town. We moved to Almirante, a...
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Poverty in Paradise
These kids live in a Maya village in the jungle about an hour from Cancun. Alcohol abuse and domestic violence are a big problem in their...
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Earthquake relief in Oaxaca
The trip to Oaxaca involved a 12 hour drive through the mountains to a small pueblo that no-one had been able to reach because the bridge...
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