Amigos mios,
The winds of change have blown in, and the time has come for me and Jamie to move on.
I have very much enjoyed organizing and writing this blog, and I hope that our friends and perhaps a few who we have not met have enjoyed reading what I have offered up. At times, it has seemed more of an exercise in keeping my own sanity than anything else. It was also an exercise in perseverance. It seemed important to me to keep the blog going, even after some difficult times, even when I was not sure that I had anything interesting to offer, even when I feared that no one was reading it, and even though I have lagged at times. Now, I am happy to report, the exercise has paid off. I am still relatively sane, and the experience of setting up, experimenting with, and maintaining this blog has led to several new opportunities.
I have exported the entire blog to a new url. So if you missed anything or found something comforting or cheering or maybe even inspiring that you would like to read over again or share, it's all over there, now.
My work as the editor of the Expat Daily News Latin America and related work will require quite a bit of my time. Jamie is writing many articles, as am I, plus we have responsibilities of moderating comments, fielding questions from readers, and doing research on issues from all over Latin America that are of interest to expats and potential expats.
Additionally, I have been invited to participate in an upcoming blogger feature at Truthout.com, so I will be active on my new blog, Connectively Speaking, which is my expansive project to synthesize the whole of existence, to illustrate how everything is interconnected, as an antithesis to what I see as the fragmentization of reality by twitters and text messages and sound bites that feed an insatiable desire for more and more input of less and less real substance and meaning. Participation by anyone who would like to contribute is encouraged!
And don’t forget to check out my eBooks. You can read at least the first 10% of these eBooks for free at the links provided.
A Journey Through Strange Coincidences, Connective Thoughts, And Far Flung Places
From Zürich to Moab, from tropical Polynesia to the farthest corners of Australia, from investigations into what ideas themselves might be to what secrets might be revealed by Synchronicity, from deconstructing Free-Market Ideology to reinventing Spirituality; this multi-layered journey seeks connections between every aspect of the cosmos, from the musical sphere to the stratosphere, and beyond.
Lessons from History (FREE eBOOK)
A nation that went to war thinking that it would be quick and easy, but then getting bogged down, becoming polarized, falling into financial difficulties, losing confidence in their government, looking desperately for strong leadership, and falling for conspiracy theories and false accusations about those within and without who oppose the romantic call for cultural purity and supposed morality...?
And Other Essays
5 essays celebrating complexity and the connective principle:
Gandhi Remix reformulates Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins
Small Change puts the health care reform into perspective
Too Many Notes is a short essay on concision
Constructive Universalism compares this Uruguayan art theory to Ayn Rand’s "objectivism"
No Missing Links unveils the illusion of separation
Past, Present, Progress
While my husband and I lived in Uruguay, I wrote. Not only did I maintain our blog, “Because the World is Round...,” but I found myself composing poetry, to my own surprise. It was a contemplative time, and as I tried to identify what it was about Uruguayan culture that I found so beguiling, as I dealt with loss, as the birds, the ocean, the sun and the moon spoke to me, a philosophy became.
Thank you for all of your love and support – because knowing that friends and loved ones really have been there through it all, despite my occasional insecurities, has helped me to deal with the loneliness of being a stranger in a strange land.
Peace and Love
Julie R Butler
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