The Magic of the Market

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I was just thinking about the magic of the market.

Yesterday I went to Santa Tere Market but I think it’s officially known as General Ávila Camacho market. And just wanted to go into the Molería. I guess a lot of people outside of Mexico don’t know what Mole is. Some people call it the Mexican curry.

Its like this paste, there are various types but the most famous is mole poblano made with nuts, seeds, tortilla, bread, what else, chiles. A very important ingredient and chocolate. Its sweet, salty, bitter with the chocolate and spicy. It’s got basically every flavor you can imagine combined into one delicious mixture.

Down at Santa Tere they have this mole place and you walk in and actually even before you walk in, maybe 10 meters down the alley you can already smell this diverse mixture of flavors. Walk in there and ordered a kilo of peanut butter. I love the peanut butter they make there.

As far as I can tell they don’t put anything else in but maybe salt. Just seems to be milled up peanuts and all these smells of different kinds. Mole with almonds and pippin which is a green type of mole. Just everything.

You can also buy tamarind paste to make water for aqua Fresca and this garlic hanging on the wall. Oats and different kinds of grains and 5-6 times of beans to cook up and make beans. All of these things in one store.

And Im absolutely fascinated by the market. I love the free market, as free as it can be, capitalism I suppose you can call it, just trade and people coming up with new things and selling them. Offering them to the public.

Its fascinating the kind of stuff human beings can come up with working with nature and create something wonderful to share with others. Maybe you notice for yourself with your Instagram or Facebook marketplace or you go to a flea market they call them here Tianguis.

Every neighborhood here in Guadalajara and probably all across the republic of Mexico every neighborhood has a tianguis. One day you can do down there and buy fresh fruits and veggies so cheap and delicious. All the ingredients you want, fish and chicken. Little stall selling quesadillas and pellizcadas which are what they call the little buttery Gorditas.

Sopes, tacos, mole with chicken and all types of things. Just amazing to see the colorful things people are selling out there. Its all representative of the wonderful abundance we have here on planet earth. Also of the enginuity of the resourcefulness of human beings. Maybe you will notice enough if you are online in person marketplace, you can start to notice what is going on around you. All of the amazing things that have happened, the various skills and talents that have had to come together.

As described in that favorite essay by a pencil. No one knows how a pencil is made. Sounds a bit of an unusual claim but it takes so many varied abilities with the harvesting wood, mining of graphite to put all these things together to make the bit on the end of a pencil. All of these things come together.

All of these talents come together and we can notice these things in our lives as we step inside any kind of marketplace. That is the blessing that we have in a free market.