Your Jitterbug Thought(s) for the day . . .
Break on through to the other side.
I live in the hustling, bustling go-go tourist town that is San Ignacio/Santa Elena, Belize, because I’m never far from the calming influence of living green trees and vegetation and streams of water and mostly gentle people who live close to the land.
I have precious little money but I’ve got God’s good green gifts close by.
So why do you live where you live?
Illustration by Maurice Sendak from Open House for Butterflies by Ruth Krauss
By the Mopan River in Benque, BZ.
Plus, I can swim at any resort pool in BZ I want to for a few dollars fee, like this one at the San Ignacio Inn–the resort hotel where common folks like Queen Elizabeth stayed. The difference is that she got treated like royalty and I got handed a towel.
Gene and I saw how lovely Belize is during our brief visit there when on our recent cruise to the Caribbean. Your contentment makes sense. I, personally, life where I live (as I call it, “in the land of the impossibly thin and rich”) because this is where my sweet and wonderful husband has a house and there is no reason to leave it and start some place else. It’s expensive, controlled, overly-manicured and yet . . . we have made a wonderful and loving home here. I’m not sure anything else counts.
That is absolutely what counts. So happy for you.