It is Friday morning the day before Halloween 2020. I always like to write a post before the holiday season begins as this is my favorite time of year and these final months always seem to fly by. I still try to summon that childhood holiday magic and writing a post helps me focus on…… Continue reading Journal Entry – Halloween 2020
Author: Mateo de Colón
Global Citizen! こんにちは!僕の名前はマットです. Es decir soy Mateo. Aussi, je m'appelle Mathieu. Likes: Languages, Cultures, Computers, History, being Alive! \(^.^)/
Las Vegas and Death Valley
We took a trip to Las Vegas and Death Valley during Indigenous Day weekend. School has those days off but not work so I took two days of PTO on Friday and Monday. The question was where to go? We can fly for free but it is on standby so it had to be somewhere…… Continue reading Las Vegas and Death Valley
Dianne Feinstein Letter
Dear Mateo: Thank you for writing to me regarding the coronavirus pandemic and air travel. I appreciate hearing from you, and I welcome the opportunity to respond. The coronavirus pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the air travel industry. Across the globe, airports are nearly empty and flights are grounded because of strict international travel limitations…… Continue reading Dianne Feinstein Letter
COVID, Fires, Smoke, Heatwaves and Power Outages
2020 has been a terrible year. I wrote a few posts in the beginning of the year wondering if “anything else could go wrong,” and I really shouldn’t have said that. Things can always get worse and they certainly have, so much so, I’m afraid to say that phrase anymore. Yesterday was a first in…… Continue reading COVID, Fires, Smoke, Heatwaves and Power Outages
Covid 19 – 10th Update
It is Friday September 4th, 2020. I sit here in my shed breathing in moderately polluted air from the fires that burn the state of California. My mood is on the melancholy side lifted only slightly by thoughts of a three day holiday weekend. It is difficult to be happy these days for a number…… Continue reading Covid 19 – 10th Update
The School Where I Studied
I passed by the school where I studied as a boyand said in my heart: here I learned certain thingsand didn’t learn others. All my life I have loved in vainthe things I didn’t learn. I am filled with knowledge,I know all about the flowering of the tree of knowledge,the shape of its leaves, the…… Continue reading The School Where I Studied
Deer morning breakfast
COVID – 19 – 9th Update
It is July 18th, 2020 on Saturday morning. We’re on the verge of another lockdown due to a spike in COVID cases. I myself am thinking more and more that I must have had COVID already as I’ve had a slight cough ever since February. Due to my job I did travel a lot and…… Continue reading COVID – 19 – 9th Update