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There are only two basic ways to organize society: coercively, through government dictates, or voluntarily, through the myriad interactions among individuals and private associations. All the various political "isms"--monarchy, oligarchy, fascism, communism, conservatism, liberalism, libertarianism--boil down to a single question: "Who is going to make the decision about this particular aspect of your life, you or somebody else?"
Edward H. Crane

Happy Weekend!

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Brand New day

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Absorbed

 

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

~Confucius

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El Pantalon

Arcos Corporative Building, known as "El Pantalon" (The Trousers) by Mexican architect Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon.
Another views of this building here and idem.

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Moon Branches

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

~William Shakespeare

Canción Mixteca

Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido!

inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento;

y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento,

quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento.

Oh tierra del sol!, suspiro por verte

ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor;

y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento,

quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento.

Mixteca Song

I'm that far land where I was born!

Immense sadness fills my feelings

and seeing me so lonely and sad like leaf in the wind,

I would like to mourn, I would die of feeling.

Oh land of the sun! I yearn to see you

now that I live far without light, without love

and seeing me so lonely and sad like a leaf in the wind

I would like to mourn, I would die of feeling.

Happy Sunday!

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Beautiful Danger

Popocatepetl is an active volcano and, at 5,426 m (17,802 ft), the second highest peak in Mexico after the Pico de Orizaba (5,636 m/18,491 ft). Popocatepetl is linked to the Iztaccihuatl volcano to the north by the high saddle known as the Paso de Cortés, and lies in the eastern half of the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt.

The name Popocatepetl comes from the Nahuatl words popōca 'it smokes' and tepētl 'mountain', thus Smoking Mountain; the name Don Goyo comes from the mountain's association in the lore of the region with San Gregorio (St. Gregory), "Goyo" being a nickname-like short form of Gregorio.

Popocatepetl is 70 km (43 mi) southeast of Mexico City, from where it can be seen regularly, depending on atmospheric conditions. The residents of Puebla, a mere 40 km (25 mi) east of the volcano, enjoy the views of the snowy and glacier-clad mountain almost all year long. The volcano is also one of the three tall peaks in Mexico to contain glaciers, the others being Iztaccihuatl and Pico de Orizaba.

Popocatepetl is one of the most violent volcanoes in Mexico, having had more than 20 major eruptions since the arrival of the Spanish in 1519. A major eruption occurred in 1947 to begin this cycle of activity. Then, on December 21, 1994, the volcano spewed gas and ash which was carried as far as 25 km (16 mi) away by prevailing winds. The activity prompted the evacuation of nearby towns and scientists to begin monitoring for an eruption. In December 2000, tens of thousands of people were evacuated by the government based on the warnings of scientists. The volcano then made its largest display in 1200 years. [Wiki]

Iztaccíhuatl

A legend tells the tale that many years before Cortés came to Mexico, the Aztecs lived in Tenochtitlán, today's Mexico City. The chief of the Aztecs had a beautiful daughter named Iztaccíhuatl.  The people were enchanted with Izta and her parents prepared her to someday be the Empress of the Aztecs. Izta grew up and fell in love with a captain of a tribe named Popocatépetl or Popoca. Popoca asked for the Emperor's permission to marry his daughter and he agreed to the arrangement under one condition: in order to marry his Izta, Popoca had to bring the head of an enemy chief back from the war.

Popoca went off to fulfill his destiny. Several months passed and an adversary of Popoca sent a false message back to Izta that her loved one had died in battle. When Izta heard her lover's fate she was overcome by the news, refused to eat and died of grief.

Popoca returned victorious, but upon hearing of Izta's passing he could not be consoled. He carried his beloved to the mountains and put her down to rest, then plunged a dagger in his broken heart. The gods covered them with snow and changed them into famous peaks in Mexico. Together in eternity are Iztaccíhuatl's mountain "La Mujer Dormida" (Sleeping Woman), and Popocatépetl's volcano, still active today raining fire on Earth in blind rage at the loss of his beloved. [Wiki]

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On the move

La Cibeles Turnabout. Mexico City

Riverside. NYC

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Sign and graffiti with light on top

Detail:

“Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.”

“Is there intelligent life on earth? Yes, but I'm only visiting.”

“I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure.”

“Laughter translates into any language.”

“Only the truth is revolutionary.”

~Graffiti quotes

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Dancer

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Hoja

When I look carefully

I see the nazuna blooming

By the hedge!

Cuando miro con cuidado

Veo florecer la nazuna

Junto al seto!

~Basho (1644-94)

Happy Weekend!
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Pixels Skyline

Central Park. NYC 2008

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Diana The Huntress

Diana Fountain. Mexico City

Diana de Versailles. Musée du Louvre
Diana (lt. "heavenly" or "divine") was the goddess of the hunt, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and also of the moon in Roman mythology. In literature she was the equal of the Greek goddess Artemis, though in cult beliefs she was Italic, not Greek, in origin. Diana was worshiped in ancient Roman religion and is currently revered in Roman Neopaganism and Stregheria. Diana was known to be the virgin goddess and looked after virgins and women. She was one of the three maiden goddesses, Diana, Minerva and Vesta, who swore never to marry. [Wiki]

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Nocturnal

"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."

"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free." 

Nikos Kazantzakis

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El Mexicano

(Sculpture) by Rachid Khimoune. 2003
Borda Gardens. Cuernavaca. Mexico

How much do you know about Mexican people?

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John Lennon

Central Park (Garden Of Peace) New York City

The Dakota Building. NYC

Entrance The Dakota Building

The Central Park memorial was designed by Bruce Kelly, the chief landscape architect for the Central Park Conservancy. Strawberry Fields was inaugurated on what would have been Lennon's 45th birthday, 9 October 1985, by his widow Yoko Ono, who had underwritten the project.  The entrance to the memorial is located on Central Park West at West 72nd Street, directly across from the Dakota Apartments, where Lennon had lived for the later part of his life, and where he was murdered.

Dreamers of the world, unite!

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Cul-de-Sac

Reality is not always probable, or likely. ~Jorge Luis Borges 

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Points of View (Peace Piece)

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

~John Lennon

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Manifestation

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. 


Herbert Marcuse (1964) One-dimensional man.

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Designated Driver

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.  ~Corey Ford

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Sunday (Sundae)

We perceive time 
according to the completeness 
of our own presence.

Gurdjieff

The level of Being of a man attracts his life, and history repeats itself because we remain on the same level of being. 


Living Time, Maurice Nicoll

The world does not yield to us directly: the description of the world stands in between.

Tales of Power. Carlos Castaneda

Contracting our infinite sense we behold multitude;
expanding it, we behold One. 


William Blake

Our purpose in life 
is to have a unique relationship with the Universe.

Emerson

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UpAndDown

“If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion, which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.”

~ James A. Michener

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October Theme Day: Graffiti

"Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can

make someone smile while they're having a piss."

— Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall)

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of your work are the police department."

— Banksy

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Slide

The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.

Old Chinese Proverb

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Dance

 

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

Rabindranath Tagore

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The Language of Doves

“Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.”

Juvenal

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