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<p>Sometimes the drive from Lakeside to Julian is real boring. Like in the late afternoon clog-up.</p>
<p>Sometimes my brain backfires badly and I go into an altered state of consciousness whereby the pukey present melts down into a panorama of a pastoral past. Suddenly Route 78 becomes the Ortega ranch road again, all the way past Santa Ysabel.</p>

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<strong>Mundo Citizen</strong></p>
<p>It has been a busy year and part of the reason for writing sporadically is because activism has become a priority in my life.</p>
<p>I wished I could have written more about my work in the past year, perhaps in the future I will, but in Mexico, we experience ā€œMomentumā€ in our advocacy work this past year. To give you an idea, I briefly describe some of the projects that kept me busy in Mexico City since June 2014:</p>