

Happy New Year!
Now, you're probably thinking, "Uh, it's past Valentine's, he's a little behind." And, in fact, a few friends have been wondering why they haven't heard from me in a while.... Well, in Guatemala, in the Highlands where the Mayan people have more than one calendar for keeping time, we've just started the new year in the 365-day agricultural calendar, the Haab. This is the year of the deer (Kej), a symbol of personal power. To many Mesoamerican peoples, the deer was the most p