12.07.08
Stealth
Beneath the surface of the world, the unconscious plys it’s trade unopposed by the creatures of the surface world whose understanding of life prevents them from digging deeper and seeing the full extent of their being.
11.22.08
Trash Barrel
A white trash barrel against a white wall. Wall, a newly painted pristene white, the barrel once white now banged up and rusting in spots.
11.17.08
A Visitor
I was sitting on a ferry traveling from the mainland on the Yucatan Pennisula to the island of Cozumel and this yellow butterfly landed on my yellow journal and stayed there for most of the trip. Near the end of the trip he just flew away as suddenly as he had appeared.
06.23.08
The Material and the Immaterial
We think of everything as solid and substantial and ourselves merely existing for a time in the midst of this materiality. But all of the ways that we know of any of this is through the mind and our thoughts. But we have never seen a thought, they only exist in our minds, and our minds; where does our mind exist? Like a reflection our mind and our thoughts exist in dependence on what appears solid and material, but perhaps it’s the solid and material that exists in dependence on our mind.
05.28.07
An Amish Vendor
There are areas in Mexico where there are farms owned by the Amish. The younger members of the community show up from time to time selling cookies and cheese. They are always young, the men wearing overalls and straw cowboy hats and the women wearing long dresses and little traditional caps. They don’t speak a word of English, just Spanish but with blue eyes and blond hair look for all the world like gringoes.
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Originally uploaded by waywuwei.
An Amish Vendor
02.03.07
Amor: Estilo Tienda Departmental
Amor: Estilo Tienda Departmental
Love: Department Store Style
Just walking down the street one evening in Puerto Vallarta, I was stopped by this little scene in a local department store window.
11.09.06
Koi Dream I
Koi amaze me. They seem like something out of a dream. They silently cruise beneath the surface, just out of reach and blured by the water. They clearly associate the movements they can probably only dimmly see above the water with food which sometimes appears as if by magic. So they keep an eye open and stay just out of reach, to slide away silently if the situation feels threatening.
10.12.06
Someday we will learn to trust the democratic process…
Rigged elections have been the norm here in Mexico. The only time the rigging has failed has been when the incumbents have been so outrageously corrupt as to stir a revolution, either at the ballot box or in the streets.
In the last 2 elections in the US, the political machinery has learned a thing or two and has found ways to rig certain critical states to swing close elections. This is what happened here. Despite clear evidence of illegal activity on the part of the party in power, the electoral commission, several of who are up for appointment to positions on the supreme court, found that this did not ‘influence’ the election. So a close election was swung to re-elect the incumbents. This is the new style of fraud. Using MBA’s and analytical computer software the fraud is applied with a scalpel rather than a hammer.
09.21.06
Monsoon Season
Recently Hurricane Lane stormed up the coast. We rarely get direct hits from hurricanes here because we are in a deep bay which is protected by a mountain range that skirts the south end of the bay. If the hurricane comes from the south, the mountains push the hurricanes farther out to sea. If the hurricane comes from the west which is rare, we can get hit. We were hit by Hurricane Kenna several years ago which did a significant amount of damage especially 3 hours north in San Blas. Lane dumped close to 5 inches of rain on us in 24 hours. It rained very hard for almost 12 hours. As I was paddling across my yard to my meditation room, I recalled that in India and south east Asia during the monsoon season, the monks go into retreat and spend the time in quiet meditation. The people provide them with the necessities for the length of the monsoon season so that they won’t be disturbed during the rains.
