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# title: "About me"
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description: "Marcel Ventosa's personal blog"
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lastmod: "2023-07-02"
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# Now
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{{< icon "user-edit" >}} _Updated July 2nd, 2023 from my home in Phnom Penh. The rainy season has started._
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## {{< icon "map-location" >}} Location
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Cambodia
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## {{< icon "heart" >}} Family
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### {{< icon "users" >}} Activities & projects with my daughter
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My daughter is unschooled. I like to help her follow her interests, so this is an area where I research, read, and spend time with her.
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### {{< icon "forward" >}} Moving
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We’ll be moving to a house close by in a couple of weeks.
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### {{< icon "truck" >}} Packing stuff in Thailand
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I’ll be in Thailand, packing a house full of stuff we left there more than 5 years ago. Some things have been unopened for the best part of a decade, since they were shipped from Mexico. The apocalypse turned two years to five in the blink of an eye.
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### {{< icon "user-add" >}} Mom’s visit
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My mom will be coming to visit from Mexico later this year and will be staying with us for an extended period. We haven’t seen each other for more than 5 years and she’s never met my daughter. I have a few things to prepare for her visit.
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## {{< icon "cog" >}} Business
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### {{< icon "clipboard-check" >}} Company organization, BD & collateral, back of house
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These next months I’ll be focusing on our KPR’s, online business development, SOP’s, hiring, training, and supervising new staff.
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## {{< icon "user" >}} Personal
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### {{< icon "rocket" >}} Fitness
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I exercise at the gym 5 or 6 times per week. Some days I do yoga, some days weights and rowing. I haven’t been doing much yoga lately except for warm-up yoga, because my knees were hurting and I felt I needed some rest.
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### {{< icon "newspaper" >}} Blog
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I’m making it a habit to write posts for this blog.
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### {{< icon "book" >}} Books
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- **One Peaceful World Cookbook** by Alex Jack & Sachs Karo
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- Wonderful macrobiotic vegan recipes. I have tried a dozen of them so far and none have disappointed.
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- **Smart Choices** by John Hammond, et al.
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- Interesting premise.
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- **The 4 Disciplines of Execution** by McPherson et al.
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- Reading this as a sequel to Christina Wodtke's Radical Focus, which I enjoyed.
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- **The Unschooled Unmannual** by John Holt
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- Interesting observations on the way children learn.
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Recently Finished
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- **The Art of Living** by S. N. Goenka
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- I Read this as a preparation for a 10 (12 actually) day silent meditation retreat. Interesting book. Interesting retreat. Somewhat cultist, but gave me interesting takeaways. The book by itself may not be interesting without the retreat.
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- **On Being a Teacher** by Jonathan Kozol
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- Pleasingly subversive reading. Although the target readership are teachers, it was a worthwhile book to read as a parent with an unschooled child as well.
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- **Tools for Conviviality** by Ivan Illich
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- A thought-provoking book. Read it for the second time as I thought I needed a refresher.
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- **How Children Learn** by John Holt
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- Interesting read.
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- **Patria 1** by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
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- Mexican mid 19th century history by a left wing intellectual. An interesting read and part one of a three part series.
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- **Chants of a Lifetime: Searching for a Heart of Gold** by Krishna Das
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- I love to listen to his chants. The book did not disappoint. Krishna Das is a man of true devotion.
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- **Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita** by Ram Dass
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- I have a nuanced relationship with the thoughts of Ram Dass. Interesting guy. We don’t see eye-to-eye on everything, but I enjoy reading him. His thoughts on vegetarianism on this book are disappointing, to put it mildly.
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- **The Surrender Experiment** and **The Untethered Soul** by Michael Singer
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- Really enjoyed reading both of these books.
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_(This is a [Now page](https://nownownow.com/about). Thanks to [Derek Sivers](https://sive.rs) for the idea)_
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