Gauchos in Argentina
My daughter saw an Anthony Bourdaine Show on the Travel Channel about gauchos in Argentina. Gauchos are cowboys.
The gauchos drink mate tea from a gourd! Oh, I want so much to drink mate from a gourd. I want to drink anything from a gourd. I want bowls made from gourds. I want everything made from gourds. I never would have thought of it, but that’s where my heart is.
And the gauchos have an unusual straw made from metal, Lauren said.
Heaven Admin sent me an unusual straw except the one he sent is made of a natural material. My straw looks like it was made from the stem of a gourd. It is not hard enough to have been made of wood. It’s all handmade, of course. It has thirty perfect tiny holes. This little straw is a treasure.
Once Santhan builds the spiritual center in Capilla del Monte, it will be worth your coming to Argentina just to get a darling straw like this. 
I made some mate tea this morning in the hopes that it would wake me up. I sucked the mate through this straw just like a gaucho. At the very end it is made a wonderful slurping noise, better than any I ever heard before.
Mate has caffeine in it, and I am remarkably sensitive to caffeine to the degree that it puts my hair on end and my eyes pop and my hands get the jitters, but, after only four hours’ sleep last night, the mate did not make a dent in me this morning, and I simply have too much to do today to snooze.
So Lauren brought me over about a quarter of a cup of café au lait. My eyes started twitching so I can safely say that the caffeine is beginning to take effect!
Meanwhile, next I will try sipping some ginger water kefir with with my cute little straw.
P.S. Heaven Admin found the photo above. The one I took of the straw (no gourd) was blurry. Senor, what is it that the gourd is sitting in? I gather it has to sit in something or it would tip over, is that it?
Here’s a note from Heaven Admin:
In Argentina drinking Yerba Mate is such an integral part of society, that a child’s first sip from the “bombilla” is more treasured than the child’s first step! Sharing Yerba with an animal buddy is not unheard of.
Godwriting is a blog by Gloria Wendroff and is about Gloria's daily life as the Godwriter of the Heavenletters project that is having a profound effect on the lives of people around the world.
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