Your gravity!

Get moving again: Vote for a change

pink...

Have you ever tried to see the whole through rosy lenses. Not bad I have to say! Suddenly the noise lessons, the light gets softer, resolutions not insurmountable and truths more true. Give it a try, come one. Go on, I will wait.... there, what do you feel, lighter, happier, quiet.

What if we were to wear these lenses all of the time, permanently embed them into our corneas? What will that do to us, to our lives? How will we feel? Make our minds more active and our perceptions less intense. Contraction isn't it!

Everlasting magic!

People more loving, skies more passionate, ground more sanded yet unsinkable, promises more true, revolutions less bloody, changes more honest, efforts more genuine

I have tried the restless, the intense, the crazy now its time to switch things around a little bit and go for what doesn't fit. Bring it on, lets see maybe the road I drove past over and over again is the one I am destined to take...

What do you think, other than I need to have my head examined.

Close your eyes... feel that...

Masha' Allah

tum wafaa hon tum nasha hon
tum muskaan hon tum ada hon

tum hasi hon tum chaahat hon
tum himmat hon tum pawan hon

tum deewane hon tum saahas hon
tum apne hon tum soone hon

tum mere saawariya hon

Cabo, Part 3 -- The Flora

Cabo is a unique microhabitat for a diverse array of flora, readily evident even to the casual botanist like me....a huge array of succulents and cacti (saguaro, candelabra etc) in the flatlands and foothills of Baja peninsula give way to various types of palms (dates, royals) and other small salt-loving plants as you slope down to the Sea of Cortez. Its quite beautiful and in some ways unexpectedly lush. Theres also a local legend called the salt wood tree, which I believe is a species of banyan tree so common all over Asia. Apparently, the root system of this tree favors soil with high levels of salt, and the circulatory system actually processes the salt and eliminates through its leaves. Note to self: dont park your shiny new car under a salt wood tree because the secretions will eat through the paint in less than a month. MORE PICS COMING SOON

Cabo, Part 2 -- The Fish Story

Second day...on a fishing boat called a panga skippered by an effusive, arm-waving Italian industrialist who now lives in Los Barriles. Note to self: never get on a small boat with a guy who takes his sport fishing too seriously. Andrew and I caught two 12-15 pound tunas within the first hour of fishing. Then several bites but no real action for a couple of hours. And suddenly I'm locked in this 30 minute death struggle with a type of dolphin known locally as a dorado for its preternatural golden sheen. truth be told it also has strong dashes of red, turquoise green and ice blue. but doradorojoaquaazulado, mercifully, was deemed far to difficult for gringos to pronounce. The fish was so damned strong he nearly tipped me over a couple of times, and actually dragged me from one side of the boat to the other as he struggled to break the line and I simply to hold on and not fall in the Sea of Cortez. We werent using a harness, so the butt of the fishing rod was jammed into that tender flesh north of pubic and south of abs. If you dare, gaze on the picture above, but be warned...the sight of my bruised self is not for the faint of heart. But the fish sure is pretty, aint it? I thought so too and it was a total gift being so close to something so beautiful and powerful. Even as the noble beast was chewing through the fishing line. Ah, but not our obsessive Captain Guido Ahab...nope not him. Ive never seen a grown man so pouty and disappointed in broad daylight. I think he was mad at me, but he was also shaking his fist at the open sea, swearing some sort of unholy vengeance straigh out of a novel. Strange to be sure, but it didnt impact my sense of elation not in the least Im happy to report...

Meditate and Destroy!!!

So get back from Los Barriles in Mejico and found this excellent little gift (from me) in the mailbox. I just love my new Meditate and Destroy t-shirt and all it stands for...to see more about the folks who masterminded this little gem of consumerism check out the Dharma Punx web site:
www.dharmapunx.com

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