[“I don’t want to waste my time
But I could waste my time for you”
lyrics co-written by Kölsch]
Recently there’s been a major convergence of information around energy efficiency and mitochondria. “Am I wasting my energy on this?” is the question for the rest of the year. I write this because I just had to go back and fix maybe 20% of the oldest blogs posts due to newer web technologies breaking the old html. Definitely not a waste of time- but actually time isn’t really the question- the thinking needs to shift to energy. “Am I wasting my energy on this?”
With that, this is 1 of 47 posts I have drafted- of which I will return at the end of this series back to the left over from Brazil in October in 2025 before I return to Brazil again in February 2027. I need to be pretty efficient about my reflections. In my run at the Brazil posts- I sunk too much time into using AIs and while I did learn a lot, it was perhaps not the best use of energy and this balance will be the trick to learn with AIs (so will allow myself perhaps 2-3 questions as a general heuristic).
I proceed here with this new (and really old because having gone through my initial posts which were no more than 100 words of writing, not 1000)- I’ll let the photos do the work until I reach Brazil once again.
This is a wonderful neighborhood to walk through and while this church is accessible, its partner in this neighborhood requires an appointment so keep that in mind. Brutalist details abound in this church. I always sit to pray in all spaces of spiritual practice- here, in the quiet, the uninterrupted wall of stained glass art is truly second to none.
You would never know this place existed from the street – high walls surrounding the complex- and that feeling of protection carries within…
Notes from Gemini:
While it looks like a secluded monastic sanctuary from the inside due to its lush, expansive gardens, the site was originally an upscale 18th-century hacienda. The land was donated to the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit in the mid-20th century to be used as a house of formation and studies for young priests and philosophers.
The famous modern chapel—celebrated for its dramatic, soaring concrete roof—was built between 1955 and 1958 by pioneering architect Félix Candela alongside Enrique de la Mora and Fernando López Carmona. While it has housed communities of priests and students over the decades, its doors have always been tied directly to pastoral care and the public rather than the cloistered, isolated life of a traditional monastery.
Address: Av. Universidad 1700, Santa Catarina, Coyoacán, 04010 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Website: Wiki write up of Enrique de la Mora
