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Circumspectral
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Traveller, photographer, open-mic musician, cyclist. Here to challenge cliches and assumptions.

Living in Oaxaca. Traveling by bus, visiting communities in these valleys and mountains.

Stories & photos free!
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Bonus shot:

Bleak street front against beautiful mountains and sky. The view this morning from my hideaway suite in Oaxaca.
Street front at sunrise, Oaxaca, Mexico.
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Ocampo y Rayón
Oaxaca, Mexico
November, 2025

With this week’s Lucha Libre posters.

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Man with bicycle waiting to cross at a typical Oaxaca Centro street corner.
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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News photo of French mystery kid outside Louvre with ornate picture frame.
November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Apartment Lobby
Oaxaca, Mexico
November, 2025

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Black and white study of an apartment building lobby in Oaxaca, Mexico’s historic center.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I just visited my home town of Vancouver for the first time in about 12 years…
Stanley Park Seawall near the yacht club. Looking north along Second Beach in Stanley Park. Near Lumberman’s Arch in Stanley Park. Autumn leaves in blazing color in Vancouver’s West End.
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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This is a 3 ton. Rednecks don’t drive these for fun. Trust a former bush worker on this.
October 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Great history about rebels writing in the shadows for years against Diaz, leading up to the 1910 revolution.

Often from the US then smuggled in. The power of words.

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October 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Trump Campaign Event
Madison Square Garden
October 28, 2024

The real Hate America Rally.
Trump Campaign Event Madison Square Garden October 28, 2024 The real Hate America Rally
October 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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New Circumspectral

I write about Day Of The Dead, found art & Oaxacan civic planning.
Plus, morning in Puebla.

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October 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Good word! I wonder what H. T. Webster would think if he knew then its platonic ideal would be 3rd in line for the presidency 100 years later.
Origin of word, “milquetoast”.
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Detail from the Alhambra. Granada, Spain. Detail from the Alhambra. Granada, Spain. Detail from the Alhambra. Granada, Spain. Detail from the Alhambra. Granada, Spain.
October 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Antifa have completed their assault on Portland, Oregon and are now back at their vast compound beneath Mount Shasta in Northern California planning further actions.

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Apocalyptic cityscape. May or may not be Portland, Oregon.
October 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Granada? Alhambra of course. More than lives up to the hype.

Also, if you walk northeast along the Rio Darro from the center you’ll come to a cool area of shops and restaurants.
Granada Spain along Rio Darro Granada Spain along Rio Darro Old hotel in Granada along Rio Darro Hill top view of Alhambra
October 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Lovely!

Here’s one of mine from Stanley Park in Vancouver.
October 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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In the end, kindness will win.

Read my latest.

A Village Half Full:
The Education Of A Gringo

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Always Free.

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Words of Pyotr Kropotkin, Russian geographer and anarchist. “Sociability is the greatest advantage in the struggle for life. Those species which willingly or unwillingly abandon it are doomed to decay,”
October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Auto-geometry to the rescue…
Eiffel Tower in Paris.
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Make Greatcoats Great Again.
WW2 German military greatcoat.
September 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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I can’t look at poll numbers like that and not want to scream.

Still getting ~40???
September 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Reference map. Plotting a X2 grid on blank paper. Plotting the first streets again the grid using pencil and ruler. Sketching in the famous Zocalo.
September 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM