Time Out

Tomasito (Tanya photo)

Dear Readers,

I am going to take a few weeks off from blogging--a short vacation is due.

(In Arnold Schwartznegger voice.) I'll be back!

Catch ya' later!

Tomasito

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Paradise

Waving Tanya.

Our Escondido one-bedroom apartment from down below: running hot and cold, new carpet and floor tile, electricity, garbage pick-up and landscaping, sparkling pool--fairly quiet, safe neighborhood, covered parking for one car and like that--not exactly cottage small with picket-fence and rambling rose, but just as good for us.

Paradise is where you are.

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Garden Variety Warning

Daley Ranch Rock. (Tomasito photo)

There is a beautiful book in our public library which I have read recently: "Japanese Gardens" by Gunter Nitschke.

The book has excellent photos of some of Japan's finest gardens and interesting commentary regarding the historical development of those very typical Japanese art forms.

I was kind of surprised to see that the gardens of our present era have dropped the living component completely--no more plants or trees or even raked sand--the modern "Japanese Garden" is a construction of concrete, steel, plastic and other man-made products.

But in summary Mr Nitschke says: " With our present knowledge of the catastrophic environmental disasters ahead it is tempting to speculate upon the possible shape of a future garden prototype..." (My italics.) And he suggests some sort of jungle environment might be suitable.

He also suggests that without some profound change in consciousness there will be no future Japanese Gardens and he recommends meditation as the only possible way to avoid annihilation.

A pretty scary note from a Japanese garden specialist!

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Old Green Road

The Old Green Road. (Tomasito photo, 2010)

We have had some very good spring rain this year here in Southern California--and up north, our friend in Redding reports that the huge lake behind the Shasta Dam on the Sacramento River is up to the brim--and this us the first time is YEARS that that has happened.

The old road in the photo above is in the Daley Ranch Park--one of the nicest walks in Escondido. (It is NOT always THIS green!)

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New and Old

New and Old

Perhaps we are born with some talents, hopes and dreams--and we have a bit of time to develop these attributes using our physical body's senses and mental qualities.

With luck and enough time perhaps we make a little progress in a lifetime--probably a very little bit in even a very long lifetime--or maybe none at all and maybe even lose what we had in the beginning--but there is plenty of time--eons and ages of it--you might say an eternity of time.

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Integrity

Long Beach View. (Tomasito photo)

I have been reading about the old Maya people.

Most of the ancient civilization was thoroughly wiped out, but there are some bits and pieces coming to light due to the concentrated effort of some linguistic scholars--and there are some Maya people persisting in their old homeland of central America.

There is a practice among them which I think is admirable and can be summed up in in this notion--that "it is not good to trade integrity for money. "

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The Door

The Door.

This is the door you may have been looking for.

Walk right through--they are waiting for you there and are ready, willing and able to answer ALL your questions!

But of course the door you are looking at here on this non-existent page of non-existent images does not really exist! It's just a dance of imaginary electrons.

You just think it does, but:

It is ALL in your mind!

That's where it ALL is!

And THAT may not exist either!

Think about it...

and be happy.

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