Munal

The National Museum of Art is located in the historical center of Mexico City. The museum is housed in a neoclassical building. It includes a large collection representing the history of Mexican art from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid 20th century. It is recognizable by Manuel Tolsá's large equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain, who was the monarch just before Mexico gained its independence.

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Saturday Figures

“I went to see a band in New York.

The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said

How many of you people feel like human beings tonight?

Then he said

How many of you feel like animals?

And everyone cheered after the animals part.

But the thing is, I cheered after the human being part because I did not know that there was a second part to the question.”

~Mitch Hedberg

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Tacuba Street at Noon

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

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Tacuba St.

Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Past, Present and Future

 IDEAS OF PEACE

Am I saving the possibility of being in peace for last? If I am, time out. A change of

plans is required. That is not what I want to put off till the end. I need to feel peace

every day that I am alive.

I go around the world talking about peace, and I have understood one thing: People

don’t even know what it is. Nobody has a clue.

Some people think that peace is when people put flowers in their hair and dance in

the streets, and when they meet, they hug each other. When they go to a restaurant,

if the waiter was good to them, then after they’re finished, they pay the bill and give

the waiter a hug—no more tips. That is their concept of peace.

Other people think peace is when all the fighting has stopped. Nobody will fight

with anybody else. If your neighbor does something annoying, you’ll just sit there

and pout. And some people think that peace will be the day the trains stop running

and dogs stop barking.

Some people think peace is being on top of a mountain overlooking a beautiful lake

at sunset. When you hear crickets, you say, “Oh, it’s so peaceful.” Next time you see

a cricket, don’t just shoo it away—it’s associated with peace. Of course, if that same

cricket ends up in your bedroom, then peace is over; you declare war on it. And it is

not a question of “wanted: dead or alive.” You want it dead!

REAL PEACE

The peace I am talking about is the peace without which we would lose the very

fabric of who we are, the peace that dances in the heart of everyone. The reality. The

beauty. The joy. The true peace—not an absence of something, but the very presence

of something. That is what is alive. That is what is possible. Even in the middle of a

war, a person can experience this peace.

Some people think freedom is when you get away from your house for the weekend.

To teenagers, freedom is when they leave their parents’ house. Freedom to parents

is when their teenagers actually leave, not just threaten to leave, but actually leave.

Is that freedom?

Freedom from my troubles. Is that freedom? Freedom from my concerns. Is that

freedom? Freedom from my responsibilities. Is that freedom?

I talk about a freedom that can be felt even in a prison. That’s the freedom that

no one can take away from me. Peace that cannot be disturbed—that is real peace.

Freedom that cannot be taken away—that is real freedom.

Prem Rawat

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Just in Time

(iPhoneography)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mexico

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe, Dream Within a Dream

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