The Pied Piper

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A sound, softly changing direction, a child captivated, myself captivated, a moment in time….

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.

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.

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.

The Material and the Immaterial

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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.

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

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An Amish Vendor

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.