Tribal Blues

“For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. 

For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.”

© Marshall McLuhan

Background Music :

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (from Monty Python)

words and music by Eric Idle

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin
Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.

So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...

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Promenade

“I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff 

about to fall down and break your neck.” 

“I need, therefore I imagine.” 

“chaos: it has no plural.” 

“Memory is satisfied desire.” 

“Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.” 

“What the United States does best is to understand itself.

What it does worst is understand others.”

“Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.”

“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”

“The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.” 

~Carlos Fuentes

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Dogma

Happiness Is Dogma

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Impressions of Coyoacan

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Wheels

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

~Rudyard Kipling

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Photo of The Year 2011. Theme Day January 1st, 2012

For its simplicity

(Revolcadero Beach. Acapulco, Mx)

For its softness

(Out  of  Cielo. New York City)

For its significance!

Time - Pink Floyd

Ticking away the moments

that make up a dull day 
Fritter and waste the hours

In an offhand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground

In your home town
Waiting for someone or something

To show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine

Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long

And there is time to kill today

And then one day you find

Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run

You missed the starting gun

And you run and you run

To catch up with the sun

But it's sinking

Racing around

To come up behind you again

The sun is the same

In a relative way

But you're older

Shorter of breath

And one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter

Never seem to find the time

Plans that either come to naught

Or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in quiet desperation

Is the English way

The time is gone

The song is over

Thought I'd something more to say

Home

Home again
I like to be here

When I can

When I come home

Cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones

Beside the fire

Far away

Across the field
Tolling on the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell...


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Caressing Time,

Enjoy with gratitude every new year!

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Christmas Mood in Cuernavaca

Merry Christmas
and
Happy Holidays,
Everyone!

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I Just Don’t Get It…

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Not occupied

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Occupy Your Heart!

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Murano

Murano 2010

Murano is a series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It lies about 1.5 km north of Venice and measures about 1.5 km (0.93 mi) across with a population of just over 5,000 (2004 figures). It is famous for its glass making, particularly lampworking. It was once an independent comune, but is now a frazione of the comune of Venice.

Murano was settled by the Romans, then from the sixth century by people from Altinum and Oderzo. At first, the island prospered as a fishing port and through production of salt. It was also a centre for trade, through the port it controlled on Sant'Erasmo. From the eleventh century, it began to decline as islanders moved to Dorsoduro. It had a Grand Council, like that of Venice, but from the thirteenth century Murano was ultimately governed by a podestà from Venice. Unlike the other islands in the Lagoon, Murano minted its own coins.

Early in the second millenium, hermits of the Camaldolese Order occupied one of the islands, seeking a place of solitude for their way of life. There they founded the Monastery of St. Michael (Italian: S. Michele di Murano). This monastery became a great center of learning and printing. The famous cartographer, Fra Mauro, whose maps were so crucial to European exploration of the world was a monk of this community. The monastery was suppressed in 1810 by French forces under Napoleon in the course of their conquest of the Italian peninsula, and the monks finally expelled in 1814. The grounds then became Venice's major cemetery.

In 1291, all the glassmakers in Venice were forced to move to Murano due to the risk of fires. In the following century, exports began, and the island became famous, initially for glass beads and mirrors. Aventurine glass was invented on the island, and for a while Murano was the main producer of glass in Europe. The island later became known forchandeliers. Although decline set in during the eighteenth century, glassmaking is still the island's main industry. [Wiki]

Fri Dec 16, 2011

This week's challenge:
'Meditative'.

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