El Potrero

El Potrero, a little village near Mexico City, to have a lunch, picnic, ride bike or a horse, walk, jog, read or just sit and look the beauty of the place.
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Carbon

Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. It is present in all known lifeforms, and in the human body carbon is the second most abundant element by mass (about 18.5%) after oxygen. This abundance, together with the unique diversity of organic compounds and their unusual polymer-forming ability at the temperatures commonly encountered on Earth, make this element the chemical basis of all known life.

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it--what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Every effort should be made to eradicate self-importance from our lives. Without self-importance we are invulnerable.
From: The Fire From Within by Carlos Castaneda.

Iran. Bad times for the Iranian people suffering the policies of these men of god, fundamentalist lovers of power and nothing more. Imagine one of you, beaten, offended, tortured, only because you love to show the truth and beauty of Life. Where’s Amir Sadeghi from Tehran24 Daily?
Take Action.
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Field of Flowers Church

Iglesia del Campo Florido al atardecer / Field of Flowers church at sunset.
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Out of Balance

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Political Campaigns

Midterm elections of July 5th. The sign said: Abortion a woman's decision. Vote PSD.

Press notes about this theme:
This decision ensures Mexico is observing fundamental human rights law. Decriminalizing abortion saves women’s lives and respects their equality and autonomy. We applaud the court’s decision, and hope governments around Latin America take notice
José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch.

"This decision is of transcendental importance, not only for human rights, but as a stand for the secular state against religious fundamentalism. It is a lesson for the future, not only for Mexico City, but for the entire country and for the whole region,"
Dr. Raffaela Schiavon, MD, is Country Director of Ipas Mexico.

(Paulina of Baja California state in Mexico became pregnant after being raped by a burglar when she was 13 years old. Despite obtaining legal authorization from the justice department, Paulina was denied an abortion at the public hospital. Instead, she found herself visited by anti-abortion activists and subjected to religious condemnation. By the time the hospital approved the abortion, it was too late, and Paulina was forced to carry her pregnancy to term.)

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Coleccion Naturaleza / Nature collection

7Hojas

Natura Morte

Flor Pastel

The Last Jacaranda

Night Leaves

Midnight Flower

Red Flowers

Red Shadows

Jamaican 1

Spider

El Mago

The Golden Branch

The Watch

Synthesis

A collection of new and recent pics of nature (by request).
Have a great weekend
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Tree People

Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig
sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance
climbed up through my conscious mind
as if suddenly the roots I had left behind
cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood -
and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.
- Pablo Neruda -
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The Look

“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...”

--A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.--

Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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Builders

Honest Scrap
Joo from Urban Stories has awarded me the Honest Scrap Award. This is a great honor, for the Honest Scrap Award is bestowed upon a blogger whose blog content or design is, in the giver's opinion, brilliant. The Honest Scrap Award is for bloggers who post from their heart, who oftentimes put their heart on display as they write from the depths of their soul.

Blog de Ouro
I'm very honoured because received this award from Christopher's Photos.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate them!
Sorry I'm breaking the rules or chain, but I follow so many extraordinary blogs that I can't name just a few, so these awards go to all of you out there, because of your efforts to show your own individuality, your views and emotions about your people, about your hills, rivers, lakes, deserts, streets, towns or cities! Thank you all.
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Saturday Colors

Men and Machine

Rockit

15th Birthday

The Embrace

“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
P.B. Shelley
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The Art Lesson

Rio de Janeiro Park.

Have a Great Weekend!
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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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The Bikers

“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
George Bernard Shaw
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David and Goliath

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Let's Fly

The Heart of Man by Erich Fromm
Review by William Timothy Lukeman.

More than 40 years later, this short but insightful volume remains one of the best in-depth discussions of the human psyche at its darkest. Erich Fromm brings all his decades of knowledge & experience to this descent into the roots of what he aptly calls "necrophilia," a literal love of death born from an overwhelming fear of life.

What's especially fascinating is that as he analyzes the psychology of the necrophiliac, we can immediately recognize so many of the people who run & ruin our world today, from the most personal level to the global. We've all met them, and all too often suffered because of them. Their obsessive fear & compulsive need to control that fear invariably affects the rest of us, precisely because we refuse to meekly submit to their murderous control.

But what exactly does Fromm mean by "necrophiliac," anyway?

To condense his rich book into a few lines is an impossible task, but here's the gist of it: the necrophiliac personality fears life because of its messiness, its randomness, its uncontrollability. And so he (it's so often "he," by the way) does his best to control it through brute force, fear, torture, and ultimately death.

And how do we recognize these necrophiliacs?

No matter what their political, religious, or ideological affiliations, they share the same basic traits & worldview. They worship strength, toughness, a lack of tender emotions; they glorify the mechanical & do their best to become machines themselves: they loathe yet are fascinated by decay, disease, filth. Hence they often have rigid ideas about sexuality (one of the most uncontrollable aspects of living things), and espouse strict, letter-of-the-law moral codes concerning it ... although their private lives are frequently an immersion in what they publically denounce as disgusting.

A familiar picture begins to take shape: the stern, self-righteous, excessively judgmental, often uniformed strong man, one who prides himself on being able to make "the tough decisions," untroubled by reflection or regret. The uniform can be military, or a business suit, or a minister's collar, or any clothing that embodies status -- because it's status, rank, and power that matters most to them. And they have no problem killing others in the name of some greater good, if anything seeing it as an outward emblem of their unyielding virtue.

The poet Lew Welch wrote about this sort of mentality in "The Basic Con" - "Those who can't find anything to live for, / always invent something to die for. / Then they want the rest of us to / die for it too." Whether it's for their god, their politics, their bank accounts, or their own desperate need to believe in their own superiority, they project their inner loathing & emptiness onto the rest of us, making us scapegoats for their own inability to face the uncertainty & wonder of life. They must have answers for everything, and can't tolerate questions, or doubts, or ambiguity.

This is a book that, all too sadly, will never be outdated. Each new generation faces the same necrophiliac mindset, dressed up in the latest fashions of the day, as recent history has taught us. All the more reason to keep this book in print -- most urgently recommended!
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Breakfeast in Bed

“I ran up the door, closed the stairs, said my pajamas and put on my prayers, turned off the bed and hopped in the light, all because you kissed me goodnight”
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Dreaming with Cubes

William Blake’s

• Exuberance is beauty.

• Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

• Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

• If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

• No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

• One thought fills immensity.

• The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

• The true method of knowledge is experiment.

• You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

• What is now proved was once only imagined.

• Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

• To generalize is to be an idiot.

• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

• To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.


Have a different and happy weekend!
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Authority and Innocence

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.
From The Wisdom of the Heart by H. Miller.
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Reaching

Reaching for Inspiration.
[ Still Life ]
Art
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Reflections of Writing, The Wisdom of the Heart by Henry Miller.

[ El Arte no enseña nada, salvo el significado de la Vida. ]

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Coatzacoalcos River

Do anything, but let it produce joy.
From Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.
Legend
The legend claims the Quetzalcoatl the Aztec god was on board of a raft made of a serpent skin and navigated until became lost into the horizon. Ever since the river has been known as the Coatzacoalcos River which means “The place where the serpent hides.”
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The Wheel

A portable Ferris wheel in a little town near Mexico City.
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June 2009 Theme Day: Feet

"It is better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees."
Emiliano Zapata
Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.
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The Forgotten Land / Tierra Olvidada

What can I say...
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Flores Nocturnas / Night Flowers

If seeds in the earth can turn into such beautiful flowers, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
G.K. Chesterton
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The Mannequin Maker

El Hacedor de Maniquis
Action is eloquence.
W. Shakespeare
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