transformation

"The Buddhist teachings are fabulous at simply working with what’s happening as your path of awakening, rather than treating your life experiences as some kind of deviation from what is supposed to be happening. The more difficulties you have, in fact, the greater opportunity there is to let them transform you. The difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into the lousy habitual patterns you already have, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you, on the spot." Pema Chodron

moustache

Piece I made yesterday. Stencil, acrylic on canvas. Am really into color primaries these days.

creative commons

FYI-I have an Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives license on my site. It's thru the creative commons web site. "This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, allowing redistribution. This license is often called the "free advertising" license because it allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can't change them in any way or use them commercially." The creative commons site is really interesting, visit the link above and check it out.

fireworks

"We anoint their fuses with a tiny amount of fire, and they come alive, playing out their life span in a matter or seconds. In those few seconds a crack in the universe is opened, giving us a glimpse of the energy locked within all matter." - B.W.

carmen alto

Celebration at Carmen Alto church last night. Procession of the Cristo Negro and fireworks.

Yavesia church

We took a great trip yesterday up into the mountains. Rented a little white volkswagon which served us well on the small dirt roads. Here is the church at Yavesia.

Otokoyaku

My stencil portrait of Yuu Todoroki of Japans Takarazuka Revue.

burritos

We went up to the small town of Huayapam yesterday, with a visit to the Orchid garden and to the nearby dams where we saw these donkeys. (M. took this great photo). Huayapam is definitely worth a visit as well as the Orquideario where you can see over 700 varieties of orchids

food and flags

Now this is an interesting food link (ideasinfood) you should check out. These folks like to experiment! This is a roasted monkfish in grape-chipotle sauce with braised black cabbage, preserved morel mushrooms and grated chorizo. holy cow.

702

Hey - check out this cool site (big happy funhouse) where they post old found photos - maybe you'll see one of your relatives there...

quiz

Can you name these 11 celebrities? (you can click on the image to enlarge).... and Here's the answer as i promised last week: BigMamaThorton, Peggy Shaw, ElvisHerselvis, Harriet Dodge, Jennifer Miller, Judith Halberstam, Del LaGrace Volcano, Patrick Califia, Dred Gerestant, Jamison Green and JD from LeTigre.

beanbag

Running lots of errands today. I've been to La Trinidad church, Benito Juarez market, Pitico and back. Here is are some cocoa beans in a bag at Mayordomos chocolate shop down south of the zocalo.

view over teotitlan

Maya Heiroglyphs are the coolest ever. We'll see some in our trip to Chiapas next month.

eberhardt

Isabelle Eberhardt - my stencil portrait tribute

happyNewYear!

Happy New Year everyone!