I'm having internet access issues and have been unable to upload text from my laptop. But all is very well. More as soon as I can. 

July 5, 2009

Late afternoon, with heavy rain. Everyone within hearing is tuned into Mesa Redonda, the national political commentary program, which is having all day special coverage as we await President Manuel Zelaya's arrival in Tegucigalpa, within the next half hour. In recent days the heat has felt like being hit on the heat with a hot frying pan, a physical weight of heat and light pressing down on us. The heat and rain has unleashed the usual seasonal flu, and several therapists have been out sick with fevers and diarrhea. Two of our friends were quarantined in a neighborhood that had two cases of swine flu. Telesur is on in the background as we wait for events that all of Latin America is watching closely—golpistas as well as the people who have been building what is being called our second independence.