Jacaranda Dance

In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "… most of our energy goes into upholding our importance… if we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us.  One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two we would provide ourselves with enough energy to ... catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe."

The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures.  And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor.  As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.

For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart.There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length.And there I travel—looking, looking, breathlessly.

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

"I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself." - Don Juan

(from Carlos Castaneda readings)

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August Theme Day: Bright Colours

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Piazza del Popolo. Rome
(People's Square)

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The Game

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New York City and Washington series continue in Sketches of Cities.
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Natura Morte

Toni Morrison:
Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some 20 or 30 farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
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On The Run in New York City 1

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The Corner

Standard View:


Sanborns store in a famous corner of the city, in front of The Independence Angel, a victory column located on a roundabout over Paseo de la Reforma in downtown Mexico City.

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Night and Day

Old wrought iron bench on A. Obregon Ave.

703th Post

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Calle Madero / Madero Street

Pasaje America / America Passage.


Iglesia de San Felipe de Jesus en la calle de Madero. / St. Philip of Jesus church on Madero Street.

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Calle Uruguay

Ex St. Agustin Temple on Uruguay Street at Historic Center / Ex Templo de San Agustin y ex Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico en Calle de Uruguay en el Centro Historico.

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Night Window

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