This is Jack.
He never forgot what it was all about.
He is a good egg.
Be like @jack mallers
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Are you walking past your medicine in El Salvador? Well, don’t! Make sure to keep your eye out for Cuban oregano which grows freely here. Harvest some leaves, chew for your sore throat, dry & brew, sprinkle on your kababs or stick it in some oil and let it sit and infuse for a few weeks.



I always see it near the beaches and harvested some. It’s a super resilient plant and has survived in my container despite me being a super-rookie garden-mama.

If you’re familiar with it, pls tell me how you use it! I know it is an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antifungal and now you do too.

#ElSalvador

One of the ‘opportunity for growth’ areas of El Salvador is access to Temu. You might be in full ‘take my money’ mode but if you do not have a DUI number, which you only get if you are a Salvadoran citizen, you will not be able to shop on Temu.



After spending too much of my precious finite time on this earth speaking to Temu’s customer service, trying to get them to accept a tax number (NIT) as well as DUI for shoppers, which anyone here, including tourists, can get in a few minutes, and being turned down flat, I resorted to setting up an account under a dear friend’s details and now I am the brand new owner of this entirely necessary spoon.

In case Temu is sitting around wondering what they can do today for people who live in El Salvador and need inspirational spoons, now it knows.

#ElSalvador #Temu

What is better than a Chatoshi? TWO Chatoshis! This weekend, we are having two events in two locations: in San Salvador at our usual spot in the park and in Lost Paradise Atami in collaboration with The Reset Party.





Both have the same basic themes: Bring food to share or for the grill and also bring your beautiful selves and your crazy conversations!

The Chatoshi & Reset Party in Atami will have the above, plus a talk by Benne about how to self-health from the root up naturally and for free, cold plunges, swimming and also some fun games such as ‘What’s Your Problem?’ where you bring a problem you have which you don’t mind sharing and we all generate ideas and solutions.

Organic cacao will also be available for purchase!

CELL PHONES: As with all Reset parties, this event is hosted by holistic health practitioners and has a wonderful theme of digital-detox and thus focused on healthy food and beverages, bare-foot grounding and sun-kissed wellness so please make sure to leave your cell phones in the car or check it at the door for safe-keeping so we can focus on connection without distraction. For anyone who might have an emergency, you may keep your phone with you but on airplane mode and can check messages once in a while.

PLEASE NOTE the different timings on the different locations!

See you there Chatters!!

Bianca ♡

Location of Lost Paradise Atami:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/A4GengxQwysRWjsWA

Location of Parque del Bicentenario:
Entry (Waze):

https://ul.waze.com/ul?ll=13.69441865%2C-89.25057364&navigate=yes&zoom=16&utm_campaign=default&utm_source=waze_website&utm_medium=lm_share_location

Location in the park (Google Maps):

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Vp3ooMrewU1rKUgy7

Chatoshi Telegram group:

https://t.me/+kuSNHG4Ctfk3ZThi

#ElSalvador #Chatoshi

Thank you Club Cocal for opening your doors to Chatoshi! The ample space, the greenery, which most of us enjoyed barefoot, the pool, the little skip it would take for us to jump into the sea—what a perfect place it was for us to be!

The view of the ocean and the crashing waves were as much of a treat as the delicious kababs we sizzled on your grill. Club Cocal is such a versatile venue and suited for all types of weather and occasions—including rain with the covered space it has, what a blessing it was to be there!

This time we were a crowd of Turkish, Salvadoran, American, Canadian, Scottish, German, French, Israeli and British Chatters.

We were old, new and potentially future expats and immigrants. Questions were asked, answers were found. Except for the one about the purpose of life, that discussion will be going on and on, probably forever… :-D

Sorry, not too many photos this time guys, don’t know why they didn’t turn out well and I missed so many of you. Will be more mindful next time!

Greetings from #ElSalvador!

Last night we had:

~ A drink for my dad's heavenly birthday
~ An unending explosion of thunder and lightning
~ A snake in the house

#Goodnight!😅

A few days ago everything was very annoying! Everything was glitching-laptop, new software I’m trying to learn, a medical device we have, then obviously in tandem; my mood-glitch, glitch, glitch!

Then I received a phone call from a friend. Last time we spoke, she was in a vortex of emotion because AI was a little too suited to replace her vocation, and thus her source of income, and things were not looking good. She was holding it together but it was understandably an effort to not be frazzled. That was a few weeks ago.

In her update, she told me she’d since allowed herself a bit of the frazzle so it wouldn’t get stuck in her body, then rolled up her sleeves and trained herself on AI and is now teaching people how to incorporate AI into their lives as well. She’s already got a few clients and this pivot has blessed her brilliant mind with something novel and fun and given abundance another channel to make its way into her life.

Then another phone call came from another ninja friend who really wanted to get into long fasting of late. She was asking me for a bone broth recipe as she’d been fasting for two days and wanted to break her fast in the best possible way!

Then another friend came to mind. We’d been talking about a blemish she had on her face which didn’t look too healthy and we were discussing salving it using a very old herbal remedy native to Peru. We were going to catch up to exchange that tiny bit of salve but hadn’t managed. On remembering, I messaged her and asked how her suspicious looking blemish was. “I went to take a photo for you but I can’t see it anymore,” she said!

Sometimes the universe has a way of making a glitch feel better by sending you stories like these when you need it. The glitches kept on happening throughout the day but no annoyance was able to get through due to the smile on my face.

Good morning loves, hope you have a non-glitchy day and if you do, borrow the joys of others and ride them like a rodeo cowboy! Yeeeehaw!

#GM #ElSalvador