I realize that good blogging practice is to blog at least once a week, and I must confess that it has been more than 2 weeks since my last blog. So to all those that are wondering where in the world Project Seres has gone (which even I have wondered on and off in the last few weeks) I offer the following explanation, and ask for your understanding.

Just over two weeks ago, Jango and I moved to a new house a little outside of Antigua. It is nestled in a valley between two mountains, in a little town called Santa Ana and every morning now I awake with a view of the lush greenery of the mountain that rises just outside my window. The location is wonderful, and offers me a place where I can start building and testing things for Project Seres such as the Aquaponics system. However the drawback is that here we as yet have no internet, and to make things worse my laptop broke on the move across. So it has been both a difficult and costly last few weeks for me, and I have felt very far away and out of touch both from a personal point of view and a project perspective.

The weeks have not been idle ones however, and i have been working both on the more practical aspects of Project Seres (such as sourcing parts for the Aquaponics system), and on another project that I am starting here in Antigua called La Tortilla. La Tortilla is a collective music experiment that I am working on with my friend Jueves (who is one of the star Antiguan musical talents). The vision of this project is to make a collective music album featuring original songs from some of the very talented musicians that keep the pulse of Antigua beating at numerous locales around town – using this album to carry the music and dreams of these artists out of Guatemala and back to the home countries of the many people from around the world that visit this town.

So I have been busy setting up studios, organizing musicians, amusing Guatemalans at the hardware stores trying to buy various strange PVC parts and fighting off the flu (and no, it’s not of the porcine variety) so I can get back into half-marathon training. However not being able to work on Project Seres as much as I want to has been very trying, and a good lesson in patience. It is difficult working in isolation, and these last few weeks have affirmed for me how important the ongoing support of friends, family and community is in these types of ventures.

However in all of this, be assured that the passion and vision behind Project Seres remains strong, the connections continue to get made, and word continues to spread. With luck things will start to get back on track shortly, and I can reconnect with the world outside of Santa Ana, Guatemala with lots of news and updates about what has been happening.

Until then,

Corrina